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Morgan Morrison reports high levels of Deformed Wing Virus in wild bees sampled from chalk grasslands across Europe. This is a nasty virus in honeybees that can be transmitted by, e.g. using the same flowers.
I personally think we need to be measuring and perhaps restricting the number of honeybee hives in and near protected areas/landscapes...