Colony collapse disorder first struck honey bees in the United States in late two thousand six.

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Over the next two years, beekeepers lost more than one-third of their honey bees.

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University of Illinois Professor May Berenbaum says it appears that bees could deal with one or two viruses at the same time, but not three or four.

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In Cape bees, however, workers' eggs contain two complements of chromosomes, and thus turn into females.

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