colony collapse disorder
English
Noun
colony collapse disorder (uncountable)
- A mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.
- 2007 May 12, “Mysterious Honeybee Deaths”, in Houston Chronicle:
- As many as a quarter of the nation's commercially kept bees went missing last year, presumed dead, in a phenomenon now called colony collapse disorder.
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