Virus Wiping Out Bees... Maybe

RPB told you so - the mysterious disappearance of thousands of bee colonies all over the U.S., Canada and other part of the world is not due to global warming. Pesticides? Maybe. Mites? Perhaps. But scientists now favor the theory that it's a newly discovered virus. Sorry, Al Gore, you can't use this in your next PowerPoint show. WASHINGTON - Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States. The scientists report using a novel genetic technique and old-fashioned statistics to identify Israeli acute paralysis virus as the latest potential culprit in the widespread deaths of worker bees, a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder. FULL STORY at CHICAGO TRIBUNE...