beemageddon

English

Alternative forms
  • Beemageddon

Etymology

bee +‎ -mageddon

Noun

beemageddon (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees.
    • 2013 September, Todd Woody, “Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought”, in The Beekeepers Quarterly, page 41:
      Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.
    • 2013 November 16, Caroline Williams, “I, bee bot”, in New Scientist, page 43:
      You've probably heard about Beemageddon. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder – thought to be brought on by a pernicious combination of overwork, bad weather, pesticides and infestations of parasitic varroa mites – has been threatening to wipe out honeybees all over the world, and with them many of our food crops.
    • 2017, David MacNeal, Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them, pages 253–254:
      The harrowing mystery of CCD [colony collapse disorder] carried on for the next two years, spawning documentaries, reports from major news networks, magazine features, and various “Beemageddon” hoopla surrounding the bees' steady decline […]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:beemageddon.

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