Indiana University

For the past decade, beekeepers in the U.S. and Europe have been reporting annual bee and hive losses that are considerably higher than what would be considered normal or sustainable. The term “colony collapse disorder” was coined in 2006 for the unexplained phenomenon of dying bee colonies. At IU, the scientists working on this issue. A Ph.D. student in microbiology, Freddy Lee is part of a lab in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Biology asking questions that may relate to the global decline in honey bees.