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Featured Articles and Reports

• Bee Mortality and Bee Surveillance in Europe (pdf document) - The bee surveillance project sought information on both the prevalence of honey bee colony losses, and the surveillance systems found in 27 European countries. Through a standardized questionnaire, data was obtained from 24 countries, relating to 25 systems. You can download the full report Bee Mortality and Bee Surveillance in Europe [4MB PDF]
• Colony Collapse Disorder - The honey bee continues to disappear at a dramatic rate worldwide. Many beekeepers estimate that, at the current rate of bee loss, there now may be only a ten year window to find a cause and a cure for this malady. In fact, the British Beekeepers Association has warned that honeybees could disappear entirely from Great Britain by 2018. More…
  
• Colony Collapse Disorder + Video Interview - Beekeepers across America are encountering a strange phenomenon! And so did I last year. My tomato plants didn’t have enough BEES! Bees are abandoning their hives. Millions of these insects have been reported lost, with no trace of where the colonies may have gone, and no apparent cause for their disappearance. In a few other cases, whole colonies have been found dead in their hives. Is this a run up to the infamous 2012, like in December 21, 2012? Or simply Colony Collapse Disorder? More…