Bee pollinating flower
Bee pollinating flower

Wild pollinators have been under assault around the world. Crop production has turned to shipping bee hives to farms to offset the impacts of declining wild populations. So how’s that working out?

Peter Graystock a post doc researcher at UC Riverside’s Department of Entomology says this practice is spreading to wild bee populations, putting them under additional stress.

A new paper outlining the problem and offering solutions is online at the International Journal of Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife

Read the paper online here.