date:Mar 29, 2017
According to recent lab tests at Texas AM University, iprodione, which is a fungicide used to keep almond trees fungus free significantly diminishes the survivability rate of western honey bees, Apis mellifera, the world's most common honey bee species. This puts almond growers in a difficult spot as the bees are the trees main pollinator.
Given that these fungicides may be applied when honey bees are present in almond orchards, our findings suggest that bees may face significant danger from ch