More worries over the disappearing Honey Bee.

Monkey_Films had posted this a little while ago...
http://current.com/technology/92411792_bee-catastrophe-1-3-of-colonies-died-this...
Excerpt:
Dave Hackenberg of Hackenberg Apiaries, the Pennsylvania-based commercial beekeeper who first raised the alarm about CCD, said that last year had been the worst yet for bee losses, with 62% of his 2,600 hives dying between May 2009 and April 2010. "It's getting worse," he said. "The AIA survey doesn't give you the full picture because it is only measuring losses through the winter. In the summer the bees are exposed to lots of pesticides. Farmers mix them together and no one has any idea what the effects might be."

And looncanada had posted:
http://current.com/green/92424956_and-honey-i-miss-you.htm
Excerpt:
For the fourth successive year since 2006, one of every three American bee colonies failed to survive the winter.

The terminal bee “die off” — called “Colony Collapse Disorder” — has continued to decimate the United States estimated 2.4 million hives since it was noticed in 2006. In turn, approximately one-third of all human food sources are dependent upon the survival and reproduction of honey bees. American researchers have determined various potential culprits, including parasitic mites, viruses, and bacterial invasions, as well as man-made factors such as overfarming and pesticide contamination.

Has this changed from last March when the economist reported this:

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13226733

"In recent years, there has been alarm over possible shortages of honeybees and scary stories of beekeepers finding that 30-50% of their charges have vanished over the winter. It is called colony collapse disorder (CCD), and its cause remains a mystery. In California the shortage of bees has been replaced by a glut.
One explanation offered by both Dr Ratnieks and Mr Traynor is of a once-rare disease, possibly caused by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), sweeping through colonies that have already been weakened by parasites such as Nosema ceranae, a parasitic fungus from Asia. Some have suggested that N. ceranae alone might be sufficient to cause CCD, as the fungus is believed to have been widespread since 2006, when CCD first became a problem. There is also Varroa, a parasitic mite, which has been another problem in bees for some time, and which might also transmit the IAPV. But there is almost certainly a further factor causing stress on the bees—a poor diet.

Despite the importance of the honeybee, none of this is evidence of a wide-scale pollination crisis or a threat that is specific to pollinators. No one has shown that colonies of wild bees are collapsing any more frequently than they used to. And while it is true that many species of butterflies, moths, birds, bats and other pollinators are in retreat, their problems are far more likely to mirror broader declines in biodiversity that are the result of well-known phenomena such as habitat loss and the intensification of agriculture."

Though the idea that there is a broader and costly pollination crisis under way is entrenched (the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation is spending $28m on a report investigating it), the true picture is cloudier. In 2006 America’s National Academy of Sciences released a report on the status of pollinators in North America that concluded “for most North American pollinator species, long-term population data are lacking and knowledge of their basic ecology is incomplete.” Simply put, nobody knows. As for the managed bees of America, Dr Ratnieks says that “the imminent death of the honeybee has been reported so many times, but it has not happened and is not likely to do so”.

Were is the link, what article?

here a positive story;

http://www.spectrecom.co.uk/newsblog/entry/159/university-of-sussex-clean-bee

and here some others;

http://alternateperspectives.net/Posted.php?idShift=18

http://smallbizmemphis.ning.com/profiles/blogs/a-honey-bee-alert

Next time can you actually submit something before hitting the submit button?