An unlikely hybrid team of researchers - military security experts, interested in using bees to detect explosives, working with university of Montana entomologists - have uncovered clues to the mysterious colony collapse disorder that has wiped out 40% of U.S. honeybee colonies. When the university researchers' hives were hit by colony collapse, they were able to gather molecular clues from the dead bees. A disease caused by a combination of a fungus and a virus appears to have killed the bees.
Dead bees were found to have a combination of viral and fungal proteins at much higher than normal levels. 
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