The world’s supply of honey may not disappear after all. Working with the U.S. Army, a group of scientists investigating the widespread collapse of honeybee colonies all over the United States have discovered what’s killing them: a combination of a fungus and a virus.
How the discovery was made is a fascinating story.
Army scientists in Maryland were learning all they could about bees in the hope of using them to discover land mines. At the same time bee experts in Montana were grappling with the fact that over the past four years 20 to 40 percent of U.S. bee…
Ivory tower types join the military to save bees
