Originally Posted by PursuitOfHappinessParty

I've been reading and blogging about this for over a year now.

Colony Collapse Disorder. It's important to realize this also just happens naturally, so some of the ' and here ' inidividual cases are probably naturally occuring. The vast majority of CCD cases are commercial pollinators. These colonies are transported to areas that need bees to polinate, but don't have enough local natural bees.

This tends to make me believe that it's pesticide driven. Fruit and nut tree industries heavily use pesticides. Another hint that it's a pesticide and not parasitic/disease is that those insects that normally move into abandoned hives do not move into CCD hives until a very long time, if at all.

I watched a show on TV about an area in China that has lost all it's bees to pesticides. They HAND POLINATE now. This is NOT AN OPTION for the U.S., as it's slow, unreliable, and massively hard work.