摘要:Y ou’ve heard the story: Honeybees are disappearing Beginning in 2006, beekeepers began reporting mys-.teriously large losses to their honeybee hives over the winter. e bees weren’t just dying—they were abandoning their hivesaltogether. e strange phenomenon, dubbed colony collapsedisorder, soon became widespread. Ever since, beekeepers havereported higher-than-normal honeybee deaths, raising concernsabout a coming silent spring.