Commercial bumble bee industry amplified a fungal pathogen of bees, study suggest
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 21:40
in Biology & Nature
Scientists hoping to explain widespread declines in wild bumble bee populations have conducted the first long-term genetic study of Nosema bombi, a key fungal pathogen of honey bees and bumble bees. They found that N. bombi infections in large-scale commercial bumble bee pollination operations coincided with infections and declines in wild bumble bees.