noun
Colony Collapse Disorder; Vanishing Bee Syndrome
A medical/ecological term for the phenomenon where worker bees abruptly disappear from a hive.
蜂群崩壊症候群の原因はまだ完全には解明されていない。
The cause of Colony Collapse Disorder has not yet been fully elucidated.
A compound of 蜂群 (bee colony), 崩壊 (collapse), and 症候群 (syndrome), likely a calque from English 'Colony Collapse Disorder'.