Tiny mites are giving beekeepers and farmers a BIG headache:
In their years in North America, the eight-legged pests have
devastated wild bee colonies and radically altered beekeeping. The
pinhead-sized mite — the Varroa destructor — feeds on honeybees and
their larvae. In some areas, they’ve destroyed as many as 60 percent of
the hives.Reproducing quickly and in a closed environment, the mites have
developed a resistance to pesticides — a trait they’ve been able to
spread to their progeny faster than scientist have been able to develop
new compounds to fight them off.
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