Progress in the case of the vanishing bees

In recent environmental news, honey bees across the country have been vanishing without a trace. Whatever was behind it could quickly wipe out the bees from existence. Experts had a few guesses like pesticides or cell phones but were not sure. A few days ago, scientists' search for their suspect which had apparently been causing bees to vanish did not come up empty handed. Before they had made the connection between disappearing bees and nosema ceranae scientists knew something was wrong but tried in vain to pinpoint it. The pathogen nosema ceranae was infecting bees and most likely played a major role in their disappearance. A blogger on Treehugger published a post on this new discovery. The treatment for such a pathogen is fumagillin. Scientists plan to treat surviving colonies with it and use it to protect healthy bees.

There is no doubt that finding out the cause behind the disappearing bees before it was too late is outstanding. The second part of the solution here is to find a way to cure the problem using the new information. The next task of locating infected colonies all across the country is going to be difficult. The bright side is that we found the cause before it was too late and fixing the problem is well within our reach. Hopefully these scientists recieve proper funding from the government to tackle this.