UK Professor Hopes Modified Bee Genes Can Prevent Colony Collapse Disorder
A UK Professor Hopes His Genetically Modified Worker Bees Can Help Stop The Colony Collapse Disorder That Is Grossly Effecting the UK Economy
Last week 140,000 protesters from the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) marched on Whitehall demanding $8-million in emergency funding from the Department for Environment to tackle alarming rates of bee decline. The decline has cost the UK economy about $54-million in the past year alone.
But British scientist Francis Ratnieks — and the UK’s only professor of apiculture – is pioneering research that he hopes will assuage the hardship beekeepers have been experiencing with colony collapse disorder.
