Bees under threat from disease-carrying bumblebee imports, research reveals
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 18:20
in Biology & Nature
Stricter controls over bumblebee imports to the UK are urgently required to prevent diseases spreading to native bumblebees and honeybees, scientists have warned. The call follows the discovery of parasites in over three-quarters of imported bumblebee colonies they tested. The study - the first of its kind in the UK - is published today in the Journal of Applied Ecology.