The International Herald Tribune has an article looking critically at colony collapse disorder (CCD), a phenomenon causing many bee colonies to die out. While many still think that CCD is something new which, by endangering pollination, threatens food supplies in the long run a more skeptical noise is starting to surface.

Some experts now think CCD is nothing different from times when bees have died off in the past. They argue that the widespread nature of CCD is only because there are fewer commercial beekeepers, keeping larger numbers of bees each.

More bees being kept together, or moved around in the same vehicles, from one pollinating job to another, could cause anything affecting bees to spread further more quickly.

Read more on this from the International Herald Tribune