Citations:beepocalypse

Noun: "(informal) the widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees"

 * 2015, Dany Kelley, "Ounce of prevention won't help honeybees", Farmweek, 25 May 2015, page 16:
 * Yet the media has peddled alarming stories of a “beepocalypse” — a crash in honeybee populations.
 * 2016, Keith Botelho, "Honey, Wax, and the Dead Bee", Early Modern Culture, Volume 11 (2016), page 99:
 * Yet bees are certainly not becoming extinct, and reports of an oncoming “beemageddon” or “beepocalypse” have been greatly exaggerated.
 * 2016, Erfan Vafaie, "What's The Buzz About The Bees", TNLA Green, January/February 2016, page 45:
 * So although we aren't really on the verge of a beepocalypse, this raises questions as to what the cause for high colony loss is, and how populations of native bees are being impacted.
 * 2016, Jonathan Medwid, "The Not-So-Secret Life of Bees", Suffield (Suffield Academy, Suffield, Connecticut), Spring/Summer 2016, page 36:
 * But in what has been called “Beepocalypse” and “Beemageddon,” America's honey bees are dying.
 * 2016, Robert Arnason, "Winter bee losses decline, summer losses still mystery", The Western Producer, 18 August 2016, 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.
 * 2017, Karen Szabo, "The Buzz on Bees & Honey", LIFE's Vintage Newsmagazine, April 2017, page 24:
 * Despite countless news stories reporting that bees are dying at an alarming rate, the looming “beepocalypse” isn't a threat.
 * 2017, Chasteanne Salvosa, "Buzzkill", Liberty Ledger (Liberty High School, Lake St. Louis, Missouri), 5 May 2017, page 14:
 * While the beepocalypse gains publicity every day, the fate of the population rests in the hands of countless beekeepers, conservationists and ordinary people and all of us as a school.
 * 2019, Susan McHugh, Love in a Time of Slaughters: Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction, unnumbered page:
 * First fueling their figurations as a chaotic menace in horror films like The Birds (1963) and The Swarm (1978), the growing awareness of our greater vulnerability to “beemageddon” or “beepocalypse” informs abrupt shifts in narratives of the social lives of pollinators.
 * 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.