beemageddonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

bee +‎ -mageddon

名詞

beemageddon (uncountable)

1. (informal) The widespread incidence of colony collapse disorder, feared to portend a coming mass extinction of honeybees.
   • 2013, Todd Woody, "Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought", The Beekeepers Quarterly, September 2013, page 41:

     Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.

   • 2013, Caroline Williams, "I, bee bot", New Scientist, 16 November 2013, page 43:

     You've probably heard about Beemageddon. Over the past few years, colony collapse disorder – thought to be brought on by a pernicious combination of overwork, bad weather, pesticides and infestations of parasitic varroa mites – has been threatening to wipe out honeybees all over the world, and with them many of our food crops.

   • 2017, David MacNeal, Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them, pages 253-254:

     The harrowing mystery of CCD [colony collapse disorder] carried on for the next two years, spawning documentaries, reports from major news networks, magazine features, and various “Beemageddon” hoopla surrounding the bees' steady decline […]

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:beemageddon.

同意語

• beepocalypse