It seems that, with the help of the Army, the cause of the well-publicized domestic honey bee collapse has finally been found. Turns out it's a combination of a virus and a fungus, neither of which has the ability to destroy a colony on its own. Just why this happens is still unclear, but now that the cause is known it's hoped a cure will be soon to follow.
So it's the same old story--a genetically-uniform monoculture that suffers severe population loss to a virus.
This isn't new!
Too bad for all the crazies who thought they'd *finally* found *justification* for their belief that cell phones caused brain cancer.
Posted by: DensityDuck on October 7, 2010 03:58 PM