Honeybee colony collapse, Sylvia Kantor @kantors discovers, might be halted by mycologists as well as entomologists. In a story for Crosscut, Sylvia talks with a mushroom expert and a Washington State University bee researcher who are finding compounds from mushrooms, and maybe even certain fungi themselves, that protect bees from parasites and viruses. Sweet.
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