"The parasitic fly lays eggs in a bee's abdomen. Several days later, the parasitized bee bumbles out of the hives often at night on a solo mission to nowhere." From: http://news.yahoo.com/zombie-fly-parasite-killing-honeybees-230200867.html?m id=56 Also: http://home.ezezine.com/1636/1636-2012.01.04.08.49.archive.html You will shortly hear a lot about this. What I want to ask is this: Didn't we have a thread on this site, in the last year, about bees flying toward the light? Thanks, Dick Marron *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm