{"id":16554,"date":"2013-05-06T14:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16554"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:44:39","slug":"16554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/16554\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2013\/04\/29\/eu-will-ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides-to-save-the-honey-bees\/\">news from the EU<\/a> on banning neonicotinoid pesticides in order to stem the so called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) among honey bees.  Bug Girl has an important guest post on the phenomenon of CCD by bee expert Doug Yanega. This is a must read not only for those interested in bees and CCD, but skepticism and science reporting in general, as Yanega places the current discussion in a strong historical context and provides a valuable critique of much of the reporting on CCD. Go read <a href=\"http:\/\/membracid.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/03\/guest-post-honey-bees-ccd-and-the-elephant-in-the-room\/\">Honey bees, CCD, and the Elephant in the Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21932201@N04\/4312985916\/\">wildxplorer<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/compfight.com\">Compfight<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently discussed news from the EU on banning neonicotinoid pesticides in order to stem the so called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) among honey bees. Bug Girl has an important guest post on the phenomenon of CCD by bee expert Doug Yanega. This is a must read not only for those interested in bees and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/16554\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3288,3158,264],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5fhV1-16554","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}