Researchers Identify Queens, Mysterious Disease Syndrome as Key Factors in Bee Colony Deaths

Researchers Identify Queens, Mysterious Disease Syndrome as Key Factors in Bee Colony Deaths,  Science Daily, March 4, 2013. A new long-term study of honey bee health has found that a little-understood disease study authors are calling “idiopathic brood disease syndrome” (IBDS), which kills off bee larvae, is the largest risk factor for predicting the death of a bee colony. David Tarpy, entomology, featured.