ZomBees, a Top 2013 Science Story

2013-12-20

The video, "ZomBees:Flight of the Living Dead" is featured on KQED’s list of top science stories for 2013.  http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2013/12/19/the-birds-and-the-bees-renewable-energy-and-space-too-our-top-science-stories-from-2013/ - more

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New ZomBee Watch Video

2013-10-31

KQED San Francisco's PBS channel has produced a new video about ZomBees and ZomBee Watch entitled ZomBees: Flight of the living dead.  Check it out. - more

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Zombie Fly Maggots in Vermont Bees

2013-10-09

This week, biologists confirmed the presence in Burlington of so-called 'ZomBees' -- hive-dwellers whose brains have been devoured by the spawn of a small parasitic fly. It's not a Halloween-season prank.  Read moreListen to a report on Vermont Public Radio - more

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ZomBees discovered in the Eastern U.S.

2013-10-08

Apocephalus borealis
pupae and adults have been confirmed from a sample of honey bees taken from
under a porch light in Burlington, Vermont.  This is the first case of parasitism by the zombie fly in
honey bees from the eastern ... - more

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