Stressed Young Bees May Cause Colony Collapse : DNews — news.discovery.com

Bee colonies are dying off because stressed bees start foraging when they are too young to do the risky job, new research suggests. The findings are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Collapse of bee colonies is a major international problem, especially in the United States, but also threatens pollination of Australian crops. "Like the rest of the world our colony death rate has gone up," says entomologist Dr Andrew Barron from Macquarie University.

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