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Not just honeybees: Affliction may be spreading to bumblebees, scientists
say (+video) - CSMonitor.com
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2014/0220/Not-just-honeybees-Affliction-may-be-spreading-to-bumblebees-scientists-say-video

Not just honeybees: Affliction may be spreading to bumblebees, scientists
say (+video)
The mysterious ailment that is decimating the world honeybee population
seems to be transferring to bumblebees, which also play an important role
in pollinating crops.

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  A bumblebee alights on the bloom of a thistle in Berlin, Vt., in 2011.
Increasingly sick domesticated honeybee populations are infecting the
world's wild bumblebees, a new study in the journal Nature finds.

The mysterious disorder that has befallen domestic honeybees may be
spreading to bumblebees, researchers say.

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  The bees are dying and we're to blame. TIME's Bryan Walsh explains colony
collapse disorder, and why bees are on the verge of extinction.

Beekeepers in the United
States<http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/United+States>and
Europe <http://www.csmonitor.com/tags/topic/Europe> have documented massive
honeybee losses for several years, but less has been understood about their
wild counterpart, the bumblebee, which also appears to be in global decline.
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