Something was killing the bees. Researchers later tagged it with a name — Colony Collapse Disorder — but they have been unable to determine precisely what is killing the bees.

Last week, beekeepers and others filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, asking it to suspend use of a pesticide that, after years of frantic work by researchers, has been associated with the bee die-offs.

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