"Bee" Worried
by Leslie Gudger
Bee Colony Collapse Disorder was first discovered around 2005. Since then, 60-80 percent of honey bee hives have been affected. Scientists thought they were making progress into identifying the problem and trying to solve it.
The latest evidence, however, points to a far more complicated problem - genetic mutations in the structure of the bees’ RNA.
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