"Are Commercial Honeybees Making Wild Bees Sick?"
by Berly McCoy
Everyone wants to save the bees. But as populations decline every year, we may be saving them to death.
Human efforts to breed more of these insects in artificial beehives and plant more flowers may seem the obvious way to stave off heavy losses.
New research shows the answer is not that clear cut, because viruses may be spilling over from commercial honeybee colonies into wild bee populations, according to a study from the University of Vermont published Wednesday in PLOS One.
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What best states the central idea of this article?
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Scientists are interested in learning more about how diseases spread in bee populations.
Scientists are interested in learning more about how diseases spread in bee populations.
Honeybees and wild bees are both getting sick.
Honeybees and wild bees are both getting sick.
Human efforts to help honeybees may be harming wild bees.
Human efforts to help honeybees may be harming wild bees.
Honeybees may be spreading diseases to wild bees.