Colony collapse disorder fascinates me. It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie plot. Perhaps it is. One thing that strikes me is that the hive is essen

Colony collapse disorder fascinates me. It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie plot. Perhaps it is. One thing that strikes me is that the hive is essentially in great working order - fully stocked. It seems to me nothing directly nefarious is occurring because why not take the food? Honey bees will remove (throw away) larvae infected with certain bacteria from the hive. Given this I wonder if workers themselves could socially distance and leave the hive when ill. With colony collapse disorder being the case where the outbreak was total and the infected all succumbed and therefore never came back. Then again maybe I've just been in lockdown for too long! Edit: I implied there is always a fully stocked hive after CCD. That's not the case.