Commercial Honeybee Apiaries May Transmit Viral Infections To Wild Bumblebees Through Flowers
(World News Science)

We´ve heard it many times before: wild bumblebees are in decline. There is a host of reasons for their downward spiral - from industrial expansion to parasites - but one largely untested player in the mix is viruses on the flowers themselves, spreading from domestic honeybee populations to wild bumblebees. `This is likely through salivary secretions or feces left behind on flowers while bees are foraging,` lead author Samantha Alger, a scientist at the University of Vermont, told IFLScience. `We are...