Dr. Eric Mussen, from the University Of California, Davis, is one of the researchers involved with figuring out the cause or causes of Colony Collapse Disorder. In his most recent newsletter he talks about one of the mysteries of Colony Collapse Disorder.

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Chemist Dr Ian Larson of Monash University in Melbourne said that many researchers believe that such fluids are sticky because sugar molecules slow down the water molecules; however, others do not find any evidence to prove the same. In order to explain this, scientists led by Hefter used salt in place of sugar, which behaves in a similar way but is easier to study. They examined two types of water molecule movement: translational motion, or movement from A to B, and rotational motion, or spinning on an axis, and found that in syrup-like solutions, while the translational movement of water molecules is slowed down, rotational movement remains unaffected. Larson compared this behaviour with cars in traffic jams, where they can change the lanes (rotational motion) but can't move forward (translational motion). In fact, he said that the contradictory findings in previous research are not contradictory at all, because different researchers measure different kinds of water molecule movement.

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Honey product output will decline considerably in 2008, according to the latest information released by the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products. Some honey processing enterprises are now faced with serious raw material supply shortages, which are likely to affect domestic sales and exports of honey products. Insiders estimate that the domestic honey product price will be driven up further by the increasing market demand and the shortage of raw materials this year.

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'We normally lose about 25 percent of our honeybee population over the winter,' said Kim Kaplan, a representative of the Agricultural Research Service Center in Beltsville. 'This year, we lost about 10 percent more than usual.' The loss is a major concern for bee researchers at the Beltsville center

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To promote the technological development of the beekeeping operation in the entity, members of the LV Legislature unanimously approved the Law of Beekeeping for the State of Colima, which condenses the initiative of the governor Silverio Cavazos Ceballos.

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