Honeybees have been declining at dramatic rates in the last few years. Colony collapse disorder has been linked to a virus and results in hives completely emptied of bees among both wild populations and domestic hives. Recently, scientists have suggested that infected bees may contaminate flowers that they visit and thus spread the disease. This is an example of a

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This is an example of a density-dependent factor because the spread of the virus through contaminated flowers by infected bees affects bee populations in a way that depends on the density of the bee population. The more bees there are visiting flowers, the higher the likelihood of disease spread, which impacts the population size.

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