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zombie bees
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:55 pm
by Newbee Jim
Have any of you seen this?
https://www.zombeewatch.org/
Apparently, the fly lays eggs in the honeybee and eats them from the inside out. I wonder if it attacks all species of honeybee?
Re: zombie bees
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:49 am
by Jacobs
Jim, good to hear from you again. I hope things are going well for you, and thanks for the update. I'm including a link to a story about this fly from earlier in the year, and an excerpt from the 1861 edition of the American Bee Journal reporting a similar parasite on "humble bees".
http://www.guilfordbeekeepers.org/commu ... f=9&t=1392
I wonder if the distribution pattern in your story is related to large scale shipping of bees to the California almonds?