> An unexpected, abrupt and severe disappearance of adult honeybees from a colony has been causing concern for beekeepers and entomologists for over a century [1-8]. Over time, the incident has been called Colony Collapse Disorder, Disappearance Disease, Evaporation, Dwindling Disease, Autumn Collapse and May Disease. The present study quantifies and documents the loss of honey bees from a colony during naturally occurring atmospheric disturbances from 2012 to 2014. Measurements were obtained from three independent sources.



> The extreme bee losses that occurred during geomagnetic storms accounts for the sudden loss of adult bees from a hive that have been observed in the past and recently renamed “Colony Collapse Disorder” An accumulating body of evidence is consistent with coronal eruptions on the Sun as being involved with interference of a forager’s magneto reception sense here on Earth. How abnormal magnetic fields and fluctuations relate to the epidemiology of honeybee losses is consistent with their behavior and development. In conclusion, it is likely that the mysterious, severe bee losses recorded in the past 100 years or more were caused by disturbances in Earth’s magnetosphere.



Ferrari TE, Tautz J (2015) Severe Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Losses Correlate with Geomagnetic and Proton Disturbances in Earth’s Atmosphere. Astrobiol Outreach 3: 134. doi:10.4172/2332-2519.1000134



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