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Why are honeybees disappearing?

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Attrition Rates in a Bee Colony

Colony collapse disorder affects about 40 billion bees every February. Most of the time workers are just gone, vanished from a beehive - or at least 90%. Moths and other insects with taste for sweet honey will take over if there's not enough to feed them.

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