
All over the world, honeybee populations are dying out. No one knows why, but their decline threatens the very way we live and eat
By Robin McKie, The Observer (UK), 7/20/2008
A World Without Bees
Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum
Guardian Books £9.99, pp256
The Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism
Jürgen Tautz
Springer £23, pp284
…The cause of colony collapse disorder (CCD), as this new wildlife affliction is termed, remains unclear. Beekeepers blame the introduction of nicotine-based pesticides such as imidacloprid, while scientists say a virus is probably responsible. However, neither group has gathered sufficient evidence to support their theories unequivocally…
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