This is a follow-up to a sun article that ran on Sept. 8, entitled, “The Mysterious Collapse of the American Honeybee.” It’s based on a story reported in the NY Times.

Each year for the past four years, 20 to 40 percent of US honeybee colonies simply disappeared – a phenomenon that became known as colony collapse disorder (CCD). In a major breakthrough, Army scientists in Maryland and bee entomologists in Montana jointly discovered a perfect correlation between diseased colonies and the presence of a virus and the fungus, Nosema ceranae.

Working as an intern in Bradfield hall for a month can be an exciting experience.  There are ups, there are downs, and there are certainly lessons to learn. 

The Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium (CUP), located on the eastern edge of campus in a newly renovated and temperature-controlled facility, is part of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Herbarium.  In CUP, many rows of large, dark metal cabinets neatly organize 400,000 fungal specimens by species and genus.