No One Talks About How Flowers Are Killing Bees
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - 05:00
in Biology & Nature
Among all the hype about bee deaths, there is an overwhelming amount of discussion about pesticides and blinders on about parasites and disease and even climate change, but one thing gets no mention at all: Flowers.But they are a grave danger to bees, according to an article in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.The study is the first to show that not only can bees disperse parasites around the environment but also that flowers are platforms for a host of pollinator parasites subsequently dispersed onto visiting bees. read more