pollination
131Honeybees and Colony Collapse Disorder — ▪ 2009 In 2008 agricultural researchers sought to determine the cause of a mysterious disorder that was destroying colonies of Apis mellifera honeybees. The malady, called colony collapse disorder (CCD), was threatening honeybee populations …
132Asterales — ▪ plant order Introduction daisy order of flowering plants, containing 11 families and some 26,000 species. The major families are Asteraceae and Campanulaceae (including Lobeliaceae), with far fewer species in the remaining families of… …
