Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Species of Bees under Threat
The population of honeybees, bumblebees, hoverflies, moths, wasps and butterflies is in danger. There has been a 75% fall in the species of butterfly in the UK, three species of bumblebees are now died out and honeybees have been struggling for life, for the last few years.
The causes of such threat could be land use, disease, environmental change and pesticides. Today, a share of £10m fund has been received by the nine projects. Fitting tiny radio frequency ID tags to pollinators to trace when bees go in and come out of the nest is the interesting technique, which was used.
Funding for Warwick University to untie the impact of the varroa mite on spreading viruses in honeybees will be predominantly greeted by beekeepers throughout the world, as they struggle with trying to manage the blood sucking scroungers that lives on the honeybees and is a main reason for their constant deaths.
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