Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 12:14
in Biology & Nature
Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by insects. However, pollinating bees are suffering widespread declines in North America and scientists warn that this could have serious implications for agriculture and food supply...
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