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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- First it was mites. Now, a new mystery disease is devastating honeybee colonies across the country.

Researchers are calling the illness Colony Collapse Disorder, because it destroys whole colonies of bees. It's threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.

Reports of unusual colony deaths have come from at least 22 states. Some affected commercial beekeepers have reported losing more than 50 percent of their bees. A colony can have roughly 20,000 bees in the winter, and up to 60,000 in the summer.

The country's bee population had already been shocked in recent years by a tiny, parasitic bug called the varroa mite. The mite has destroyed more than half of some beekeepers' hives and devastated most wild honeybee populations.