UNC-TV recently aired a story about the importance of bees in agriculture and what can be done about the decline in bee populations in recent years. Biology professor Dr. Olav Rueppel weighed in on one of the factors causing the decline, Varroa mites, and his research on natural ways to save the bees.
“We are trying to harvest the natural defenses that honeybees have to improve their defenses and the defense of the hive to combat the mite,” says Rueppel.
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Read the full transcript at: http://science.unctv.org/content/video/researchers-help-honeybees-against-parasite