What animal has suffered from colony collapse disorder?
Colony collapse disorder Colony collapse disorder 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. 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
Colony collapse disorder in the U.S. and a significant though somewhat gradual decline in the number of colonies maintained by beekeepers. This decline includes the cumulative losses from all factors, such as urbanization, pesticide use, tracheal and "Varroa" mites, and commercial beekeepers' retiring and going out of business. However, in late 2006 and early 2007, the rate of attrition was alleged to have reached new proportions, and people began to use the term "colony collapse disorder" to describe this sudden rash of disappearances (or sometimes "spontaneous hive collapse" or the "Mary Celeste syndrome" in the United Kingdom). Losses had remained stable since the