The BBC reports on a big discovery in the study of honeybee colony collapse. Apparently it’s a double dose of trouble:
Scientists from the US Department of Agriculture say the pathogens to blame are a fungus and a family of viruses.
Jay Evans of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, a researcher on the study, says that when these two very different pathogens show up together, “there is a significant correlation with colony decline”.
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