蜜蜂群體衰竭失調最終解釋：太多化學品

蜜蜂群體衰竭失調最終解釋：太多化學品
Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder Finally Explained: Too Many Chemicals
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) A combination of toxic chemicals and pathogens are probably to blame for colony collapse disorder in honeybees, according to a study conducted by researchers at Washington State University.
（NaturalNews）有毒化學品和病原體的結合，是可能蜜蜂蜂群衰竭失調的歸因，根據一項華盛頓州立大學研究人員進行的研究。
Researchers conducted careful studies to uncover contributors to the disorder, in which seemingly healthy bees simply vanish from a hive, leaving the queen and a handful of newly hatched adults behind.
研究人員進行了仔細研究，以揭示失調的促成因素，內裡看似健康的蜜蜂從烽巢消失無踪，遺下女王和極少數新孵化成人的在後面。
"One of the first things we looked at was the pesticide levels in the wax of older honeycombs," researcher Steve Sheppard said.
"首要做的事情中一件是，我們在舊蠟蜂窩研究殺蟲劑水平，”研究員史蒂夫謝潑德說。
The researchers acquired used hives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, finding that they had "fairly high levels of pesticide residue." When bees were raised in these hives, they had "significantly reduced longevity," the researchers said.
研究人員獲得使用的蜂巢來自美國農業部，發現它們有“頗高水平的農藥殘留。”當蜜蜂在這些蜂巢長大，它們的“長壽顯着被減少，”研究人員說。
Prior research by scientists from Pennsylvania State University found unprecedentedly high levels of two pesticides in every sample of honeycomb or foundation wax tested, as well as lower levels of 70 other pesticides.
賓州州立大學科學家們先前的研究，在每個蜂窩樣本或基礎蠟質測試，發現前所未有高水平的兩種農藥，以及其它70種較低水平的殺蟲劑。
The pesticides found in the highest concentrations were fluvalinate and coumaphos, used to eradicate the bee pest varroa mites, which have themselves been suggested as a cause of colony collapse.

"We do not know that these chemicals have anything to do with colony collapse disorder, but they are definitely stressors in the home and in the food sources," said Penn State researcher Maryann Frazier. "Pesticides alone have not shown they are the cause of [colony collapse disorder]. We believe that it is a combination of a variety of factors, possibly including mites, viruses and pesticides."

The Washington State researchers uncovered another potential cause, which likely interacts with chemicals to contribute to colony collapse: the pathogen Nosema ceranae, which entered the United States around 1997 and has since spread to bee hives across the country. The pathogen attacks bees' ability to process food and makes them more susceptible to chemicals and other infections.

"What it basically does is it causes bees to get immune-deficiency disorder," said beekeeper said Mark Pitcher of Babe's Honey. "So it's actually causing the bees to almost get a version of HIV."
http://www.naturalnews.com/028429_colony_collapse_disorder_chemicals.html

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