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Consider the lowly bee. Most of us probably don’t—unless we’re brushing off a critter before it stings us.

But now comes news about bees that is more stinging than most of us ever thought we would know. And we could be stung big time, at least figuratively.

Over the last several years, American honey bees and beekeepers have been plagued—literally—by a phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder. According to wire reports, beekeepers lost 36 percent of their hives this year and 31 percent last year.

No one knows what is causing CCD, but the federal government...