> Penn State researchers have found that native pollinators, like wild bees
> and wasps, are infected by the same viral diseases as honey bees and that
> these viruses are transmitted via pollen.

So beekeepers, by importing bees with exotic viruses, could easily wipe out 
significant populations of other native pollinators as well as honeybees?

Yet another reason for halting imports?

Best wishes

Peter 

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