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January 5, 2012 ·
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'Zombie' fly parasite killing bees
By T.K. RandallJanuary 5, 2012 ·
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The long standing mystery of dying honey bee colonies may finally have a culprit: 'zombie' flies.
Biology professor John Hafernick may have stumbled across the answer to colony collapse disorder - apocephalus borealis flies had been using bee corpses as incubators for their larvae, a process that has been somehow transferring back to live colonies. The fly's parasites not only affect honey bees but bumble bees and paper wasps as well. A heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. Instead, the pile ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder.
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