Notably, after being bitten by a zombie and examining the effects (by decapitating herself and remotely dissecting her own body, because ), Fran discovers that the victims are actually alive and, and that the zombie plague is easily reversible with the right treatment - but nobody knows this, and have used the zombie outbreak as an excuse to go on rampaging kill-sprees.

Franken Fran gets in on this again in chapter 47, with more traditional-style Romero zombies and a small parody of.

The Twist, which is either or horrifying, is that instead of zombies, the infected victims turn into rabid living amusement park mascots

The series of course, has a stab at this in chapter 39.

The Nightshift in, which take over a host's body and slowly eat it from the inside out.

It’s an expensive and time consuming process. The overall bee colony population is relatively steady because commercial beekeepers split and restock their hives, finding or buying new queens, or even starter packs for colonies, said University of Maryland bee researcher Nathalie Steinhauer, the survey’s lead author. “It also highlights the hard work that beekeepers must do to rebuild their colony numbers each year.”

“This is a very troubling loss number when we barely manage sufficient colonies to meet pollination demands in the U.S.,” said former government bee scientist Jeff Pettis, president of the global beekeeper association Apimondia that wasn’t part of the study. Beekeepers told the surveying scientists that 21% loss over the winter is acceptable and more than three-fifths of beekeepers surveyed said their losses were higher than that.

Last year’s 48% annual loss is up from the previous year’s loss of 39% and the 12-year average of 39.6%, but it’s not as high as 2020-2021’s 50.8% mortality rate, according to the survey funded and administered by the nonprofit research group Bee Informed Partnership. Scientists said a combination of parasites, pesticides, starvation and climate change keep causing large die-offs. Honeybees are crucial to the food supply, pollinating more than 100 of the crops we eat, including nuts, vegetables, berries, citrus and melons. Thursday’s University of Maryland and Auburn University survey found that even though 48% of colonies were lost in the year that ended April 1, the number of United States honeybee colonies “remained relatively stable.”

WASHINGTON (AP) - America’s honeybee hives just staggered through the second highest death rate on record, with beekeepers losing nearly half of their managed colonies, an annual bee survey found.īut using costly and Herculean measures to create new colonies, beekeepers are somehow keeping afloat.

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