Biologists at San Francisco State University are tagging radio trackers onto zombie-like bees infected with a fly parasite to find out more about species population decline.
Bees that are infected with the Apocephalus borealis fly abandon their hives and congregate near outside lights, moving in erratic circles on the ground before dying. This parasitic infection was discovered last year by SF State biology professor John Hafernik and described in a PLoS One paper.
Hafernik and his colleagues are trying to find out how much of a threat the emerging fly parasite might be to the health of honey bee colonies, or if the parasite is linked to the colony collapse disorder that has devastated bee populations in the United States and Europe.
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