And therein lies the rub. Insects, like people, are more susceptible to disease when large numbers are crammed into one area.

"Any time you try to rear anything in a bulk fashion, you run into problems," said Diana Sammataro, a research scientist at the USDA's Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson. "It's like with cows. When you put a bunch of them together, you have to put them on antibiotics because they aren't meant to live like that."


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