The bee population is dying. This impacts man at the highest levels on our food chain, posing a grave threat to human survival.
Since no other single animal species plays a more significant role in producing the fruits and vegetables that we humans commonly take for granted.
The sad reality is that Mankind could not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.
Since 2006 beekeepers have been noticing their honeybee populations have been dying off at increasingly rapid rates.
Recent harsh winters that stay freezing cold well into spring have been instrumental in decimating the honeybee population.
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen, plenty of food and a few nurse bees to care for the remaining immature bees and the queen. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, and were known by various names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease), the syndrome was renamed colony collapse disorder in late 2006 in conjunction with a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in North America.