More on Colony Collapse Disorder

I encourage you to read "Stung", an article in the New Yorker by C. L. Fornari, the Garden Lady, on the issue of Colony Collapse Disorder. Thanks to Kathy Purdy of the website ColdClimateGardening.com for calling attention to this article. It appears we may be heading towards identifying a pathogen; here is a passage from the article quoted by Ms. Purdy:

Lipkin had just sent off a paper on C.C.D. to a scientific journal. He was reluctant to discuss its contents, for fear of jeopardizing its acceptance, but he did indicate that it contained what he considered to be a breakthrough. One pathogen in particular was, in his words, “highly associated” with C.C.D.

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