If you pay attention to the news in the least, you may have heard over the pay several years that the American honeybee population has been on the verge of total collapse. Our bees keep dying, and no one seemed to know why. This New York Times article provides a brief overview of a paper published in the online science journal PLoS ONE explaining a possible cause for our honeybees' decline.
Working together, the scientists from the University of Montana and the United States military in Maryland (the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center) discovered a tag-team of fungus and virus that affects honeybee guts - possibly compromising their nutrition intake. Both fungus and virus were found in all of the killed colonies these scientists studied.
The article also delves into the interesting story of how these scientists united to share their work. Check it out!
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