Bees 'zombi' parasite found

]04 January 2012 Radikal

] A parasite that converts honey bees into zombie in the USA. Discovery can explain the disappearance of bees in batch

American scientists found a fly parasite that leads to abandon the hives of honey bees, amazed paths and eventually dies.

In the first time American researchers revealing the problem that was observed in the camp of the San Francisco State University, they plotted gold of this parasite, which can help the bees to eliminate in bulk or determine the causes of it.

The result of this mysterious event that appeared in 2006 in the US, the significant decline was seen in the ball bee population, which was elzem for fertilization in the product harvest.

Specially this production site in fruits and some vegetables represents one of the three of the economy of $15 billion per year and human nutrition. [

San Francisco State University, Professor of Biology John Hafernik, specifies that this fly parasite, called "Apocephalus borealis" was detected only in the honey bees in Calefornia and South Dakota, while the risk of this parasite was drawn to the golden, which threatens all North America.

The researchers who indicating that the eggs of a sin are at the bottom of the bucket with the release of a bee, they recorded the hives to gather near the light sources, with the infection of the parasite.

Another researcher from the university Andrew Core also expressed that they began to draw rounds without the sense of the infected bees, they can not stand on the legs and return to a zombie.
Research published in PLoS ONE magazine.

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