Agricultural officials now concerned about a new invasive species that has been discovered on Oahu that has the potential of harming Hawai'i's honeybee population. Called the bee mite, it thrives by sucking blood from bees and their pupae and larvae.
I didn't realize that honeybees raised in Hawai'i were being used to stock hives around the country. Beekeepers regarded Hawai'i bees as being untainted by diseases because of Hawai'i's geographic isolation. Now that the bee mite has been discovered, however, it means that Hawai'i's bee stocks might not be used in the future to help replenish hives on CONUS and elsewhere, where unexplained losses of millions of bees dying from a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder is causing major concern for scientists.
Miulang
I didn't realize that honeybees raised in Hawai'i were being used to stock hives around the country. Beekeepers regarded Hawai'i bees as being untainted by diseases because of Hawai'i's geographic isolation. Now that the bee mite has been discovered, however, it means that Hawai'i's bee stocks might not be used in the future to help replenish hives on CONUS and elsewhere, where unexplained losses of millions of bees dying from a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder is causing major concern for scientists.
Miulang
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