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August 8, 2012 02:47 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QFkN73m8CL8/join-zombees-help-track-bee-p.html
Join ZomBees, help track bee parasites that turn their hosts into colony-threatening living dead
You've doubtless heard about the parasite Apocephalus borealis, which infects bees and turns them into weird zombies. It's pretty awesomely awful stuff. The ZomBees project aims to track the spread of the parasite through citizen scientists like you, who will run the critters to ground and tell the project about them. ZomBees are implicated in [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/QFkN73m8CL8/join-zombees-help-track-bee-p.html
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