{"id":51,"date":"2007-09-24T14:26:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2007-09-24T14:26:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T14:26:37","slug":"bee-ccd-caused-by-virus-and-other-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bee-ccd-caused-by-virus-and-other-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee CCD caused by virus and other problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the year reports of colony collapse disorder of bee populations seemed to swarm around the world.\u00a0 Many causes were suggested.\u00a0 Recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/1146498v1?maxtoshow=&amp;HITS=10&amp;hits=10&amp;RESULTFORMAT=&amp;fulltext=ccd&amp;searchid=1&amp;FIRSTINDEX=0&amp;resourcetype=HWCIT\">research reported in Science<\/a> suggests that one organism, Israeli<sup> <\/sup>acute paralysis virus of bees, was strongly correlated<sup> <\/sup>with <span>CCD<\/span>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this does not mean that prevention or a cure are yet available.\u00a0 And there remain other influences on bee help.\u00a0 What remains true is that bees are critical to the food web as pollinators so declines in their population is bad for all of us, and organic (or similar) bee-keeping methods are more resistant to disease and reduce spreading of disease because methods are not industrial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/6978848.stm\">More on this story from the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the beginning of the year reports of colony collapse disorder of bee populations seemed to swarm around the world.\u00a0 Many causes were suggested.\u00a0 Recent research reported in Science suggests that one organism, Israeli acute paralysis virus of bees, was strongly correlated with CCD.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this does not mean that prevention or a cure are &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/bee-ccd-caused-by-virus-and-other-problems\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bee CCD caused by virus and other problems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}