Glacier Shrinkage Could Spread Diseases in Bees
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Europe's glaciers are increasingly melting because of man-made climate change.This creates a new problem: because the plant world is changing, wild bees and honey bees are more likely to become infected with diseases, as a new study shows. Normally, wild bees and honey bees are avoiding food search by specialising in different plant species.This reduces the risk of mutual infection.Blossoms as a herd of infectionHowever, the changing plant world…
Melting glaciers create a new problem: because the plant world changes, wild bees and honey bees become more easily infected with diseases.
Melting glaciers change the plant world in the Alps and force honey and wild bees to share the same flowers, facilitating the transmission of dangerous pathogens between bees.
The scarcity of some plants in deglazed areas due to the retreat of glaciers would cause bees to share flowers more and turn them into contamination points, shows a study conducted in the Swiss Alps.
LAUSANNE. Melting glaciers create a new problem: Because the plant world changes, wild bees and honey bees are more easily infected with diseases.
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