The mystery of disappearing bees
Bees are of great agricultural importance in the US and woldwide, particularly because of their role as pollinators. That’s why the news of bees disappearing in the US threatens the beekeepers and the almond farmers. Beekeepers across the US reported last year that worker bees were inexplicably abandoning their hives to die. In September, a team of researchers reported that collapsed hives were due to a virus called IAPV, and that this virus could come from Australia (because many hives have been imported from Australia in the last few years). But some other scientists found that this virus already existed before the american beekeepers started to import bees from Australia. One possibility is that IAPV from Australia might be more virulent than homegrown varieties.
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Fear about bee vanishing in the US
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