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1Colony Collapse Disorder — (or CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the term Colony Collapse Disorder was first applied to a… …
2Colony — Col o*ny (k[o^]l [ o]*n[y^]), n.; pl. {Colonies} (k[o^]l [ o]*n[i^]z). [L. colonia, fr. colonus farmer, fr. colere to cultivate, dwell: cf. F. colonie. Cf. {Culture}.] 1. A company of people transplanted from their mother country to a remote… …
3Colony collapse disorder — Honey bees entering a beehive Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or European honey bee colony abruptly disappear. While such disappearances have occurred throughout the history of apiculture, the… …
4Bees algorithm — The Bees Algorithm is a population based search algorithm first developed in 2005. [Pham DT, Ghanbarzadeh A, Koc E, Otri S, Rahim S and Zaidi M. The Bees Algorithm. Technical Note, Manufacturing Engineering Centre, Cardiff University, UK, 2005]… …
5Colony Collapse Disorder — Eine Hauptursache des Bienensterbens in Deutschland ist der Befall mit Varroamilben (hier auf dem Körper einer Honigbiene) Als Colony Collapse Disorder (engl.; kurz CCD) bzw. Völkerkollaps bezeichnet man ein in den 2000er Jahren in Nordamerika… …
6colony — /kol euh nee/, n., pl. colonies. 1. a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. 2. the country or district settled or colonized: Many Western nations are… …
7Bees and toxic chemicals — Bees can suffer serious effects from toxic chemicals in their environment. This includes various synthetic chemicals, such as insecticides and fertilizers, as well as a variety of naturally occurring chemicals from plants, such as ethanol… …
8Colony — /kol euh nee/, n. The, a city in NE Texas. 11,586. * * * I In antiquity, any of the new settlements established in territory conquered by the Greeks (8th–6th century BC), Alexander the Great (4th century BC), and the Romans (4th century BC–AD 2nd …
9Colony (biology) — In biology, a colony reference to several individual organisms of the same species living closely together, usually for mutual benefit, such as stronger defense or the ability to attack bigger prey. Some insects (ants and honey bees, for example) …
10colony collapse disorder — noun a mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees, caused by beekeepers providing their bees with disease causing propolis …
