Comments on: Colony Collapse Disorder http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/ The latest news about microbiology Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Microbial diseases of bees « MicrobiologyBytes http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Microbial diseases of bees « MicrobiologyBytes Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:43 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/#comment-291 [...] Colony Collapse Disorder [...] [...] Colony Collapse Disorder [...]

]]> By: The great bee swindle - colony collapse disorder « MicrobiologyBytes http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-290 The great bee swindle - colony collapse disorder « MicrobiologyBytes Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:11:42 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/#comment-290 [...] June 20th, 2007 Back in April the media was buzzing (sorry, couldn’t resist) with news about colony collapse disorder - unusually high rates of colony loss as bees woke from their wintering slumber. A new paper in [...] [...] June 20th, 2007 Back in April the media was buzzing (sorry, couldn’t resist) with news about colony collapse disorder – unusually high rates of colony loss as bees woke from their wintering slumber. A new paper in [...]

]]> By: Joey http://www.microbiologybytes.com/blog/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Joey Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:34:27 +0000 http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2007/04/27/colony-collapse-disorder/#comment-289 I just found your site doing a search on colony collapse disorder. I read a rather lengthy article on it, called <a href='http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/articles/show/130784-To+Bee+or+not+to+Be' rel="nofollow">To Bee or to Be</a>. I'm curious as to what others are saying about this situation. One possibility that occurred to me is that the bees are acting something like a canary in a coal mine. I saw in my brief research that the genome of the honey bee was published last year and that its biological clock is more similar to that of mammals than of flies. Could it be that they are sensing something in the environment that will later affect mammals? Some environmental change that doesn't register on the radar of more complex organisms yet? I just found your site doing a search on colony collapse disorder. I read a rather lengthy article on it, called To Bee or to Be. I’m curious as to what others are saying about this situation.

One possibility that occurred to me is that the bees are acting something like a canary in a coal mine. I saw in my brief research that the genome of the honey bee was published last year and that its biological clock is more similar to that of mammals than of flies. Could it be that they are sensing something in the environment that will later affect mammals? Some environmental change that doesn’t register on the radar of more complex organisms yet?

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