colony collapse – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:28:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i2.wp.com/www.keepingbackyardbees.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 colony collapse – Keeping Backyard Bees https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com 32 32 Varroa Mite Solutions https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/varroa-mite-solutions-zbwz1803zsau/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/varroa-mite-solutions-zbwz1803zsau/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2018 17:47:29 +0000 https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=3837 When colony collapse disorder (CCD) hits a colony, the bees literally disappear. You open the hive, and no one is home. No dead bees. No signs of disease. Just nothingness. And its scale is shocking. Some commercial beekeepers have lost thousands of hives in the blink of an eye. The losses have been dramatic enough […]

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]]> https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/varroa-mite-solutions-zbwz1803zsau/feed/ 9 The Death of Bees Explained: Parasites, Poisons, and Humans https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/ https://www.keepingbackyardbees.com/the-death-of-bees-explained-parasites-poisons-and-humans/#comments Wed, 16 Dec 2015 21:46:41 +0000 http://keepingbackyardbees.com/?p=2276 While scientists are not entirely certain what's causing colony collapse for sure, this easy-to-understand animation carefully explains the phenomenon and why we need to help the honeybee if not for their species, at least for ours.

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