Week of June 5, 2017

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DEBLOIS, MAINE -- 06/01/2017 -- Elissa Ballman, research associate with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology holds a bumble bee she collected from a blueberry field in Deblois Thursday. UMaine researchers are conducting a study on mummy berry, a fungal blueberry disease that can reduce crop yields by a significant amount. The disease is spread via pollinators such as bees, but researchers are trying to find out why native bees spread significantly less mummy berry disease than imported honeybees.
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