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Colony collapse disorder was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
June 1, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
February 18, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept
January 24, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 15, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Colony Collapse Disorder* is a syndrome describing the increasing die-off of honey-bees and other arthropods?*
Current status: Delisted good article

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Newer research on neonicotinoids

There are quite a few more recent articles pointing to bee death from neonicotinoids:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969719353938?casa_token=G3O47SBFafAAAAAA:DEjsrzKIDYtu52B9tqJNDHeVIrJfsiuzhb919W4jvM0FkjyxbbVB8BRPeLOKVhrYCpEFa7Aypw

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653519323847

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880919303093?casa_token=UbL2iwl4jjgAAAAA:F5XdzZSPUH7HPJuLhspdCPjYiGxwaWWcuSipq0ygZWQsNxWs4E5kDexdqPgBYRFbfuJ3ZVJ7YA

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.14000 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Literaturegirl (talk • contribs) 18:39, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't see any references to CCD in the abstracts at least. CCD is a pretty specific set of symptoms. KoA (talk) 03:59, 26 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking meaning

This article, before my edit, said that “the bee population worldwide has been increasing steadily since 1975, based on honey production.”
“[B]ased on” there seems to be a mere vulgar misuse of a participial adjective as a preposition, meaning that the bee population has risen on the basis of honey production. But it still leaves the reader uncertain: Does this clause mean that bees’ numbers have risen (1) in order to serve commercial honey production, or (2) when honey production is used as a measure of their numbers?
Annual honey yields per hive rose over recent decades (see, e.g., Phiri et al.’s 2022 Nature paper “Uptrend in Global Managed Honey Bee Populations and Production Based on a Six-Decade Viewpoint”) but have dropped since 2005 (see, e.g., Popescu et al.’s “Beehives and Honey Production,” online ISSN 2285-3952). So, number 1 above seems to be the answer, since honey production won’t stand as a good proxy of honeybee abundance, and I’ve edited that sentence accordingly.
But my interpretation may be wrong. And, in fact, in the U.S., honeybees are now kept mostly for purposes of pollination, not collecting honey (see, e.g., Ferrier’s 2018 USDA article “Driven by Almonds, Pollination Services Now Exceed Honey as a Source of Beekeeper Revenue”).
So, which reading is correct? Mucketymuck (talk) 06:57, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GAR

Colony collapse disorder

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Result: Delisting per immediate general consensus. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 12:12, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article has 19 cn tags, at least one failed verification, and is in need of updating (a lot of the science uses 10-yr old sources). —Femke 🐦 (talk) 19:21, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delist as failing criterion 2 (sourcing) and criterion 3 (broadness, including up-to-date research). ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 11:26, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delist as someone involved in the article. I've been sporadically and slowly working on updating the article with scientific reliable sources, but I will admit it is not in a great state right now where I would consider it qualifying for GA. One of the key problems I've run into is people adding in sources on general bee health issues and confusing that with CCD, which has very specific symptoms outlined in the sourced part of Colony_collapse_disorder#Signs_and_symptoms. Old sources are not inherently bad because a lot of the CCD research and reviews were back from around 10 years ago, and I haven't seen updates recently that showed a major sea-change in anything on the entomology front. Definitely willing to do some heavy lifting on it in a month or two though (or ping me then to give me a little kick). KoA (talk) 20:34, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Unfortunately I too must agree, even though many of the Sources are ten odd years old, that does not make them invalid, it's just that some of them could be better, and some more up to date info. could be added with recent research as sources, but generally not changing the CCD overview: But it does need to be cleaned up; this will take a bit of time, I have seen wiki editors not overly familiar with a subject and make edits throughout a page that takes a long time to fix. I would say with this now on the radar of some of us, we should be able to fix this page in the next couple or so months. Bibby (talk) 20:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Was 2024 a great or a terrible year in the US?

I'm confused. It seems the article is saying CCD is a cover term but also later says it doesn't include all population declines in a hive. Is this why 2024 is given as not a bad year for the US, whereas an article in The Guardian says of 2024 the mite-derived virus, "It developed into the largest US honeybee die-off on record, with beekeepers losing on average 60% of their colonies, at a cost of $600m (£440m)." ?https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/08/record-us-bee-colony-dieoffs-climate-stress-pesticides-silent-spring-aoe 136.36.176.51 (talk) 13:43, 13 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]