Mite-destroying gut bacterium might help save vulnerable honey bees

The world’s honey bees are facing an unprecedented crisis. Since the 1940s, the number of honey bee hives in the United States has dropped from 6 million to 2.5 million. A combination of colony-killing mites, viral pathogens, and possibly pesticides is largely to blame.
(source: sciencemag.org)

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