[Pollinator] Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees

[Michael Otterstatter]

Dear Myra,

Jennifer had asked me to send her the following, to be posted in the  
Pollinator Digest listserv.  However, it appears that she is away  
until month's end.  Can you post the below message to the listserv for  
me?

Best,

Michael Otterstatter


For posting in the Pollinator Digest:

Does Pathogen Spillover from Commercially Reared Bumble Bees Threaten
Wild Pollinators?

In a study published in the July 23 issue of the online, open-access
journal PLoS ONE, Michael Otterstatter and James Thomson of the
University of Toronto present compelling evidence that commercially
produced bumble bees used in greenhouses are infecting their wild
cousins, and that this may be contributing to declines in natural
pollinating bee populations.

The article is freely available at:

http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0002771