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When a bee colony is attacked by a predator, that colony has to fend for its own survival.
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Periodic occurrences resembling what has come to be known as bee Colony Collapse Disorder have been documented as far back as 1869.
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Ask for the honey tea package, where all the treats have been infused with honey made by The Brown Palace's rooftop bee colony.
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The research on bee colony deaths is dicey and often political.
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The bee protection organization COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) compared surveys of honey bee losses in 2009 and 2010 in Europe with the rates of neonicotinoid application in the same geographical areas (in a separate survey).
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They compile statistics, perform inspections, write reports for highly engaged but small audiences on subjects such as bee-colony collapse.
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It could, they suggest, offer an insight into problems like Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious cause of mass bee deaths globally.
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Twenty thousand Florida bee colonies, or 8% of the state's commercial colony population, succumb to mites each year.
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In 2007, about one third of the US domesticated bee population was wiped out as a result of a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with some commercial hive owners losing up to 90% of their bees.
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The bee-research team went on to confirm via polymerase chain reaction that hives with colony collapse disorder were far more likely to have IAPV.
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