Illustrative image of sunflowers, undated. Planting sunflowers could be the key to fighting a harmful mite that threatens bees all around the world, research by scientists in the United States suggests. (NewsX/Bee)
Picture shows Raina Singhvi Jain from Greenwich in the US State of Connecticut, undated. The company established by Raina - who is allergic to honeybee stings - offers 3D-printed miticidal hive entrance sets at which bees are coated with a plant-based pesticide called thymol every time they access and exit the alveary. (Raina Singhvi Jain, NewsX/Bee)
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UMass Amherst research assistant Fiona MacNeill trimming one of the 105,000 flowers in undated photo. Certain physical traits of flowers affect the health of bumblebees by enabling the transmission of a harmful pathogen, research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has shown. (Ben Barnhart, NewsX/Bee)