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Topic: colony collapse disorder

Bumblebees on a yellow flower (Getty Images/nnorozoff)

This is what caused the bee genocide

Matthew Rozsa
(l i g h t p o e t/Shutterstock)

EPA gives one to the bees

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-85757p1.html'>StudioSmart</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

"Completely different world"

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-571906p1.html'>Protasov AN</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Lindsay Abrams
(Betty Shelton/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
Euglossa orchid bee, found in the Guyana rainforests (USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab)

Lindsay Abrams
(Loskutnikov/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Dancestrokes/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(Tony Campbell/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams

Lindsay Abrams
(OAndrews/Flickr)

Lindsay Abrams
(Carsten aus Bonn/Flickr)

Lindsay Abrams
(mommamia via OnEarth.org)

Scott Dodd