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Honeybee decline blamed on lethal combination of chemicals and disease http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1332442624
In the latest study a laboratory at Universite Blaise Pascal in France studied bees infected with a disease known as nosemosis and bees exposed to an insecticide known as fipronil. Neither of the case studies resulted in many deaths.
However when the bees were exposed to both the disease and the insecticide, in any combination, a large number died.
Nicolas Blot, who led the study, said only "multi-factors" could explain the worldwide decline.
He said the world community now has to work on how to minimise the stress on insects.
"Until now nobody could find one single reason why bees were in decline worldwide," said he said. "Many worked on one kind of stress. What we show here it is not one insecticide or one disease that explains what is happening but a combination of factors in the environment. Bees are not exposed to one stress they are exposed to many."
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