As beekeepers in Canada prepare to open their hives for the spring, some are finding high mortality rates among their bees as a parasitic mite wreaks havoc across hives.
Source: Beekeepers in Canada face losses of up to 90 per cent amid spread of parasitic mites
First man-made virus?, neonicotinoids?, now mites. Poor bees.
And it might affect the blueberry season, so this just got real!
