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marmar

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Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:51 PM Sep 2012

28 Days Later with wings and stingers





AP, via Detroit Free Press:



SEATTLE (AP) -- The infection is as grim as it sounds: "Zombie bees" have a parasite that causes them to fly at night and lurch around erratically until they die.

And experts say the condition has crept into Washington state.

"I joke with my kids that the zombie apocalypse is starting at my house," said Mark Hohn, a novice beekeeper who spotted the infected insects at his suburban Seattle home.

Hohn returned from vacation a few weeks ago to find many of his bees either dead or flying in jerky patterns and then flopping on the floor. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/57841394?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p



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28 Days Later with wings and stingers (Original Post) marmar Sep 2012 OP
it's monsato they are killing the bees so you have to get all your seeds from them leftyohiolib Sep 2012 #1
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