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Jan 6, 2012 10:06 AM CST
Name: tarev
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I read in our newspaper yesterday about a parasitic fly called Apocephalus borealis that infects honeybees, wasps and bumblebees. It implants eggs in the abdomen of the bees, as the larvae grows it affects the bee's normal behavior making it nocturnal and finally killing it. Poor little bees, they become Zom-bees..

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