An international research team has some good news for the honeybee and the millions of people who depend on them to pollinate crops and other plants.
These valuable pollinators have faced colony losses over the past decade, largely due to the spread of a predatory mite called the Varroa mite. But the bees might not be in as dire a state as it seems, according to research recently published in Nature Communications.
Researchers found a population of wild bees from around Ithaca, New York, which is as strong today as ever, despite the mites invading the region in the mid-1990s.
More information is available here: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/oios-hbr081915.php
