Detective Paco has dug up a story on the decimation of the Honeybee population. It seems like there’s a parasitic fly which lays it’s eggs in the stomaches of honeybees, causing them to act like zombies, eventually leaving their hives and wandering to their deaths.
A heap of dead bees was supposed to become food for a newly captured praying mantis. Instead, the pile ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that for several years has been causing declines in U.S. honeybee populations, which are needed to pollinate many important crops. This new potential culprit is a bizarre and potentially devastating parasitic fly that has been taking over the bodies of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Northern California.
