beepocalypse

English

Alternative forms
  • Beepocalypse

Etymology

bee +‎ -pocalypse

Noun

beepocalypse (plural beepocalypses)

  1. (informal) The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees.
    • 2015 May 25, Dany Kelley, “Ounce of prevention won't help honeybees”, in Farmweek, page 16:
      Yet the media has peddled alarming stories of a “beepocalypse” — a crash in honeybee populations.
    • 2016 August 18, Robert Arnason, “Winter bee losses decline, summer losses still mystery”, in The Western Producer, page 14:
      The numbers suggest Canada's beekeeping industry is in good shape while the Americans are struggling with a “beepocalypse,” but a U.S. expert says the story is more complicated.
    • 2019, Cindy Spence, "Hive Help", Explore (University of Florida), Spring 2019, page 20:
      In the decade since, there's been a boom in beekeeping, with new hives offsetting losses of old hives, staving off the “beepocalypse,” Ellis says.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:beepocalypse.

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