Tuesday 19 December 2017

Puerto Rico's hurricane destruction may have doomed the world's honeybees

Puerto Rico's hurricane destruction may have doomed the world's honeybees

It’s a killer mystery without a killer. The astonishing die-off of honeybees over the past decade is a problem no one knows how to solve, but the key might rest in Puerto Rico, where the so-called “killer bee” spontaneously became gentle. This remarkable evolutionary leap could hold the secret to restoring the global bee population—unless Hurricane Maria kills off these benign “killers.”

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