New research has found that a common disease in honey bees could be transmitted to native bees through flowers, causing them to die at about three times the rate of the normal mortality.
Associate Professor, Lori Lach said more research was needed to determine the impact the disease was having on native bee populations.
Professor Lach said native bees don’t sting and they do a lot of pollination, so we shouldn’t be so quick to run around with fly spray.