Bees and their pollinating skills are said to facilitate the production of more than $15 billion in U.S. crops. Colony collapse disorder, a disease of unknown origin and pathology, is causing the death or disappearance of millions of honeybees, leaving researchers scrambling to find the cause. New research has shown that the disease seems to target commercial colonies, overstressed by the demands of the industrial agriculture system and possibly related to the use of pesticides. Attention backyard beekeepers: Tell us if you’ve been affected.
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