Previous Post: US: How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet nbsp
Mite helps virus destroy bee colonies: study
AFP – Parasitic mites linked to the deaths of millions of bee colonies worldwide may have destroyed them by incubating a potent virus and spreading it through the hives, according to a new report. The findings, published Thursday in the journal Science, could help explain the mysterious collapse of bee colonies in recent years, a threat to plant life and agriculture, which depend on the honey-making insects for pollination. Read article
Tags: disease medicine, nature universe, pollution toxins
Related posts:
Commbank, Spotify, Vodafone turn social
Ched Evans rape case: 9 more arrested over naming of rape victim on Twitter
HSBC scandal: Numbers never lie, bankers do
6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat
Copter crash kills two US-led soldiers
Week in Review: Bahrain Backlash, Beyond Kony 2012 and the Middle-East "Package War"