Misinformation at its best:

>  The honey bee, however, has experienced massive mortality worldwide due to the phenomenon Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), resulting in alarming prospects for crop failure in Europe and the USA. The reasons for CCD are complex and much debated, but several honey bee pathogens are believed to be involved. 

Rangberg, A., Mathiesen, G., Amdam, G. V., & Diep, D. B. (2015). The paratransgenic potential of Lactobacillus kunkeei in the honey bee Apis mellifera. Beneficial Microbes, 1-11.

Notes: 

I wrote to Dr. Amdam years ago about plausible causes for bee disappearance and she stated then that she wasn't working on "that issue." Now, it seems it interests them, but they have got so many things wrong here, it's hard to know where to start. 

Worldwide, honey bee populations are way up. Even in the US and Europe they are rising again. The beepocalypse is not here now. CCD never caused massive mortality worldwide; it didn't even cause massive mortality here. 

This is from a NY Times article  (NOAH WILSON-RICH SEPT. 24, 2014):
> Specialists have been talking among themselves about the waning of C.C.D., but have not articulated this to the community at large.

PLB

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