Study traces how farmlands affect bee disease spread

Study traces how farmlands affect bee disease spread
Credit: Laura Figueroa/ProvidedA sweat bee forages on goldenrod.
A new study on bees, plants and landscapes in upstate New York sheds light on how bee pathogens spread, offering possible clues for what farmers could do to improve bee health.
In the paper, “Landscape Simplification Shapes Pathogen Prevalence in Plant-Pollinator Networks,†published April 28 in the journal Ecology Letters, Cornell researchers gathered data on the entire bee community and the plant species visited on 11 sites surrounded by varying amounts of farmland.
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