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Whither the Honey Bee?
勤劳小蜜蜂，如此命苦

This past winter, about 30 percent of all the managed honeybees in the U.S. died. That's according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Such a die-off is no longer unusual. About a third of honeybees have perished every winter since 2006.
据美国农业部透露，去年冬天，美国有30％的养殖蜜蜂死亡。对此，人们已见怪不怪了，因为自2006年以来，每年冬天蜜蜂数量就会锐减30％。

Given that recent history, USDA entomologist Jeff Pettis characterized this as quote "marginally encouraging" given that quote "the problem does not appear to be getting worse."
美国农业部昆虫学家杰夫佩蒂斯称之为“少许鼓励”因为“这个问题并没有恶化的趋势”。

Of course, the problem has been getting worse since at least the 1980s, when parasitic mites first invaded the U.S. Our friend Apis mellifera has never recovered. Now so-called "Colony Collapse Disorder" or CCD continues to kill bees--who provide some $15-billion worth of economic good via pollination.
众所周知，少说从20世纪80年代寄生螨首次入侵美国开始，这个问题就一直在恶化。可怜的意大利蜜蜂从那以后就再也没摆脱过厄运。“蜂群崩溃综合症”（CCD）至今仍是蜜蜂的杀手，勤劳的小蜜蜂传粉采蜜的经济贡献约合150亿的经济商品呢。

To really solve the problem would require much more than solving the mystery of CCD. It would require a shift away from the widespread use of pesticides that unintentionally impact bees and the large-scale agriculture that forces them to subsist on a single type of flower rather than their usual diverse diet. Plus, there's the globalization that allows bee-killing disorders to spread rapidly and easily. What a buzz kill.
要想真正挽救小蜜蜂，光解决蜂群崩溃综合症是远远不够的。我们需要停止使用杀虫剂，因为它们无形之中就会影响到蜜蜂的生存；还需要减少大规模农业，因为这样会使得蜜蜂传粉采蜜对象过于单一。此外，在全球化的影响下，引发蜜蜂死亡的病症极易传播。哎～尸横遍野咯～

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