Decline of honeybees

By Kent on September 9, 2007 4:15 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | View blog reactions

Friday's Science Express has an article providing evidence that the Israel Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) may be responsible for colony collapse disorder (news article, abstract). Another group hasn't found a link between IAPV and CCD, and the authors are appropriately cautious:

We have not proven a causal relationship between any infectious agent and CCD; nonetheless, the prevalence of IAPV sequences in CCD operations, as well as the temporal and geographic overlap of CCD and importation of IAPVinfected bees, indicate that IAPV is a significant marker for CCD.

Even so, it sounds a lot more plausible than the cell phone connection.

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IAPV and CCD from Uncommon Ground on December 1, 2007 9:18 AM

Unless you've been following reports on colony collapse disorder (CCD), you're not likely to recognize that IAPV is an acronym for Israeli acute paralysis virus – a virus that was implicated in CCD earlier this year. A little over a... Read More

Valuing wild pollinators from Uncommon Ground on September 10, 2008 9:05 AM

Last fall a National Research Council Report, Status of Pollinators in North America, concluded thatThere is evidence of decline in the abundance of some pollinators, but the strength of this evidence varies among taxa. Long-term population trends for ... Read More

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