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OT Mysterious Bee Die-Offs REDUX for Phorbin/Wilson
Since you both expressed a concern on this subject,..
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUST...3?pageNumber=1 Researchers find "alarming" decline in bumblebees By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON | Mon Jan 3, 2011 3:36pm EST Genetic tests show that the four affected bumblebee species are inbred and other tests implicate a parasite called Nosema bombi, Cameron* said... They documented a 96 percent decline in the numbers of the four species, and said their range had shrunk by as much as 87 percent. As with honeybees, a pathogen is partly involved, but the researchers also found evidence of inbreeding caused by habitat loss.... *Dr Cameron: http://www.life.illinois.edu/entomol...y/cameron.html |
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