Honeybee colony collapse disease explained

[DrLeftover]

A parasitic mite has helped a virus wipe out billions of honeybees throughout the globe, say scientists.



A team studying honeybees in Hawaii found that the Varroa mite helped spread a particularly nasty strain of a disease called deformed wing virus.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18339797

 

[Evil Eye]

Wasn't there another thing like this a few years ago?

Bees still don't appear to have gone extinct...