By Maya Richard-Craven | Word In Black Credit: Timothy Paule Photography (WIB) - Even though there are about 100,000 beekeepers in the United States, we
Honeybee on avocado flower. Credit CSIRO/Dr. John Roberts Researchers at The University of Queensland and CSIRO, Australia s national science agency, have shown bees can help prove Australia s valuable avocado crop is free of a pathogen that could be a barrier to exports. The findings are published in the journal Phytopathology. Associate Professor Andrew Geering from