{"id":2045,"date":"2012-01-05T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T22:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2012-01-05T17:35:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T21:35:07","slug":"part-of-the-disappearing-bee-mystery-may-have-been-solved-they-were-turned-into-zombees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/01\/05\/part-of-the-disappearing-bee-mystery-may-have-been-solved-they-were-turned-into-zombees\/","title":{"rendered":"Part of the disappearing bee mystery may have been solved: They were turned into ZOMBEES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_lxbza0zvnS1qzozj1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>DON\u2019T BLINK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For years, scientists in both North America have been trying to figure out what has been killing off bees. Environmental changes? Pollution? Aliens? The actual answer however, could be more sinister: Flies that have learned they can attack the bees, turning them into ZOMBEES by laying eggs in their body. The bees then leave the colony, going on a flight of the living dead, where the eggs hatch and look for more bees.<\/p>\n<p>This is only one possibility, since so far, the parasite has only been detected in California and South Dakota, but the bees have no natural defense against the flies.\u00a0But if it turns out to be an emerging parasite, that \u201cunderlines the danger that could threaten honey bee colonies throughout North America,\u201d said the study led by San Francisco State University professor of biology John Hafernik.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheartchaos.com\/post\/15360103502\/part-of-the-disappearing-bee-mystery-may-have-been\" target=\"_blank\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DON\u2019T BLINK For years, scientists in both North America have been trying to figure out what has been killing off bees. Environmental changes? Pollution? Aliens? The actual answer however, could be more sinister: Flies that have learned they can attack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2012\/01\/05\/part-of-the-disappearing-bee-mystery-may-have-been-solved-they-were-turned-into-zombees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}