so we’re back with the bees and CCD. about two years ago the story about the bees was everywhere. now we’re back with updates on what’s going on with it and how we may potentially save them and how CCD won’t make the whole world go nutty overnight.

The first alarms about the sudden widespread disappearance of honeybees came in late 2006, and the phenomenon soon had a name: colony collapse disorder. In the two years that followed, about one-third of bee colonies vanished, while researchers toiled to figure out what was causing the collapse. A study published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences surmises that there may not be a single pathogen involved but a collection of culprits. What have entomologists and beekeepers learned in the last few years of dealing with the crisis?

apparently they’ve also been preparing for an overnight collapse and making research into replacing the honeybee. pretty impressive.