It seems to me it would be of great value to know the where abouts of bees 
that have disappeared from hives determined to be victims of CCD. Did they 
just leave and relocate? Or did they leave and die? 
If they just relocated wouldn't that tell us something about the problem?
If they died and we could find the bodies couldn't we test them to help 
determine what the cause was?
To this end, surely there are micro-chips small enough  to placed on honey 
bees for tracking purposes. Obviously, it would be impractical to place 
chips on thousands of bees in a hive but if these chips were placed on 
only the queens it seems to me that would do the trick. The queen could be 
relocated (dead or alive) and this would help diagnose what is going on.

Since the California pecan pollination seems to be the hot spot for lost 
hives, perhaps one of the big pollinators would volunteer a hundred 
(hundreds needed?) hives and funding could be secured for the cost of 
chips and the equipment need to track down and locate the missing bees. 
Find the where abouts of the dead or relocated queens and I think you will 
be on your way to solving the CCD problem.

Thoughts?

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