[jankotek]

》Bees are the only living thing on earth that doesn’t carry any type of pathogen, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

That is simply not true. Bees have many parasites, fungi, diseases ...

[flatiron]

It’s such a weird wrong sentence to throw in the article. I’m just confused how they got that incorrect tidbit and how no editor didn’t go “hmm I wonder if that is right”

[giantg2]

I'm a beekeeper and agree. Even healthy bees can carry pathogens. For example, nosema is only an issue once you get past a specific count when analyzing a deadout using a hemocytometer and microscope.

[40four]

Agreed, this article is terrible, and simply repeats a lot of inaccurate tropes about bees environmentalist groups like to parot.