Zombees: parasite turns bees into "zombies"

[DavidBrown]

A parasite that can cause a "zombie apocalypse" in bees by making them fly erratically and die is spreading through the Pacific coast and is being monitored by citizen scientists. Fascinating and scary in its potential effects on our primary pollinators.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...-11e2-9eea-333857f6a7bd_story.html?tid=pm_pop

 

[DavidBrown]

Here is the webpage for the citizen science zombee monitoring project:
https://www.zombeewatch.org/