Central Beekeepers Alliance

Here’s a collection of video and audio presentations about research on CCD from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and colleagues:

• Colony Collapse Disorder: A Complex Buzz, originally published in Agricultural Research magazine (May 2008)
• Discovery Communications video: Bee Killer Hunted by Scientists (6:00 minutes, 2007). ARS researchers Jeff Pettis and Jay Evans at the ARS Bee Research Laboratory in Maryland explain some of the tactics that agency scientists have been using to try to develop a scientific understanding of colony collapse disorder.

• ARS-produced video: Colony Collapse Disorder (1:54, 2007). Bees are disappearing from their hives in dozens of states across the country—and in other countries. What’s causing it and how can it be stopped? ARS leads a nationwide effort to find answers.
• Disappearing Honeybees: National Public Radio host Diane Rehm and three distinguished guests discuss on-going research into CCD, and what’s at stake for American agriculture. Guests:
  • Dr. Kevin Hackett, national program leader for bees and pollination at the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Michael Embrey, beekeeper and technical entomologist who runs the extension service for beekeeping at the University of Maryland
  • Dennis vanEngelsdorp, acting state apiarist for Pennsylvania’s department of agriculture
• Details of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Colony Collapse Disorder Action Plan are available in PDF (portable document format) at: http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/ccd/ccd_actionplan.pdf

If you know of any other authoritative reports or presentations about Colony Collapse Disorder that might be of interest to beekeepers, please feel free to share them in the comments section.