Honeybees provide one of the most important ecosystem services:pollination - and they do this for free! We are experiencing huge losses in pollinator populations throughout the United States and the...

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Title: Colony Collapse Disorder
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What is Colony Collapse Disorder and what are the prevailing hypotheses for what causes CCD?    3
What is being done to help pollinators in the United States or other countries? Consider laws, initiatives, scientific research, measures by organizations, and anything else you might wish to include!    3
What can an individual do to help bees and other pollinators in their local area?    4
Works Cited    5
What is Colony Collapse Disorder and what are the prevailing hypotheses for what causes CCD?
Colony Collapse Disorder is a phenomenon when majority of the worker bees present in the colony leave it. As a result of this, only the Queen Bee and a few nurse bees are left behind in the colony with plenty of food as well as a number of immature bees which are taken care of by the nurse bees. However, as it is known, a beehive cannot survive in the absence of worker bees, as a result of which, with the passage of time, the bee hives die. The cumulative effect of all these incidents which results in the loss of a bee colony is known as Colony Collapse Disorder.
    There are a number of prevailing hypotheses as to the causes behind the phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder. The multiple causes are as follows:
    Increased infestation of the...