beepocalypse

== English == === Alternative forms === Beepocalypse === Etymology === From bee +‎ -pocalypse. === Noun === beepocalypse (uncountable) (informal) The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees. 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. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:beepocalypse. ==== Synonyms ==== beemageddon