Bee populations collapsing worldwide

"Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United States" 

~ Reuters news story about the research article "Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees"











Colony Collapse Disorder + Bee pathology

• Asian apiculture: proceedings of the First International Conference on the Asian Honey Bees and Bee Mites (1993)
• Disappearing disease: a comparison of seven different stocks of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) (1984)
• Fruitless fall: the collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis (2008)
• Hearing to review the status of pollinator health including colony collapse disorder: hearing before the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives (2009)
• Honey bees: colony collapse disorder and pollinator role in ecosystems (2009)
• Morphology, evolution, and host associations of bee-associated mites of the family Chaetodactylidae (Acari:Astigmata): with a monographic revision of North American taxa (2008) 
• Nosema disease: its control in honey bee colonies (1978)
• "Pesticides and Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder" in The IPM Practitioner (September/October 2008)
• "Pesticides indicted in bee deaths" in The best American science writing (2010)
• Review colony collapse disorder in honey bee colonies across the United States: hearing before the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives (2007)
• USDA: CCD Action Plan (2007)
• USDA: CCD Questions and Answers (2008)
• A World without bees (2009)

Bees + Beekeeping

• La Africanización de colonias manejadas de Apis mellifera L. en el Perú (2009)
• Asian honey bees: biology, conservation, and human interactions (2006)
• Bee (2006)
• Bee pollination in agricultural ecosystems (2008)
• Bees in America: how the honey bee shaped a nation (2006)
• The Bees of the world (2007)
• Bees, wasps, and ants: the indispensable role of Hymenoptera in gardens (2010)
• Bumblebees: behaviour, ecology, and conservation (2010)
• The Buzz about bees: biology of a superorganism (2008)
• Honeybee democracy (2010)
• The incomparable honeybee & the economics of pollination (2009)
• Natural beekeeping: organic approaches to modern apiculture (2007)
• Plan bee: everything you ever wanted to know about the hardest-working creatures on the planet (2009)
• The Quest for the perfect hive: a history of innovation in bee culture (2010)
• A Short history of the honey bee: humans, flowers, and bees in the eternal chase for honey (2009)

Also of interest...

• Animal architects: building and the evolution of intelligence (2007)
• Bee-inspired protocol engineering: from nature to networks (2009)
• Cognitive ecology II (2009)
• Debugging the link between social theory and social insects (2008)
• Ecology of social evolution (2008)
• Food exploitation by social insects: ecological, behavioral, and theoretical approaches (2009)
• Genome mapping and genomics in arthropods (2008)
• Insect hydrocarbons: biology, biochemistry, and chemical ecology (2010)
• Organization of insect societies: from genome to sociocomplexity (2009)
• The Philosophy of animal minds (2009)
• The Smartest animals on the planet (2009)
• The Superorganism: the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies (2009)