Honey Bee Parasite

This article goes into detail about a "vampire" parasite that scientists started doing research on, and found out its not after blood, its actually after fat. This parasite names, Varroa destructer, invaded north america in the 1980s and, was thought to be one of the biggest threats to honey bees. Now that research has been conducted they found out that it is really only after the fat in adult and young honey bees.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybee-parasite-may-be-more-fat-stealer-bloodsucker

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  1. chrheaMarch 12, 2019 at 10:35 AM

    Response/Discussion?

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  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2019 at 9:34 AM

    That is very interesting that they are interested in the fat, but I wonder why they only go after honey bees and not other animals fat.

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