Colony Collapse Disorder, don’t get excited no cure yet

After watching a great BBC4 doc about CCD earlier this week all about the demise of the honey bee I have been worrying about it quite a lot.  The general problem seems to be a multitude of different issues – namely pests and pesticides that are killing off the bees.  A great many minds here and in the US have been working on it and there doesn’t seem to be one common problem.   The final consensus is that the bee is the ‘canary in the coalmine’ – our early warning sign about environmental destruction and intensive agriculture.  A scary thought.

And then only yesterday my husband said, oh its ok they’ve found a cure for that and sent me this link:

Cure for CCD

It all seemed a little bit too easy – we found a parasite that no-one else could find and fixed it.  Sadly it doesn’t seem to be a miracle cure.  In the US studies they had also found this parasite but it was by no means common to all incidents of CCD so that really appears to be it.  They’ve found a fix for one of the many many problems.

No cure for CCD