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  • Study: Commercial bumble bee industry amplified a fungal pathogen of bees

    Apr 4, 2016 2:30 pm by Diana YatesResearch
    Photo of U. of I. entomology professor Sydney Cameron, who led a genetic study of Nosema bombi, a fungus that is afflicting bumble bees in North America and Europe.

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    • Photo of U. of I. entomology professor Sydney Cameron, who led a genetic study of Nosema bombi, a fungus that is afflicting bumble bees in North America and Europe.

    Scientists hoping to explain widespread declines in wild bumble bee populations have conducted the first long-term genetic study of Nosema bombi, a key fungal pathogen of honey bees and bumble bees.