University of Vermont Bee Scientist Samantha Alger (image)

University of Vermont

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University of Vermont bee scientist Samantha Alger with a bumblebee. She and her colleagues have discovered a major culprit in the decline of wild bumblebees: viruses passed on by commercial honeybees on shared flowers.

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Joshua Brown/UVM

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