Bees Deprived of Honey as Food Have Weaker Immune Systems

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Bees Deprived of Honey as Food Have Weaker Immune Systems

Veröffentlicht: Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013 07:00 | Geschrieben von Apitherapie News | Drucken | E-Mail | Zugriffe: 5176

Honeybee Food May Contribute to U.S. Colony Collapse

BOSTON (Reuters ^[1]) - Bee keepers' use of corn syrup and other honey substitutes as bee feed may be contributing to colony collapse by depriving the insects of compounds that strengthen their immune systems, according to a study released on Monday.

U.S. bee keepers lost nearly a third of their colonies last winter as part of an ongoing and largely unexplained decline in the population of the crop-pollinating insects that could hurt the U.S. food supply.

A bee's natural food is its own honey, which contains compounds like p-coumaric acid that appear to help detoxify and strengthen a bee's immunity to disease, according to a study by scientists at the University of Illinois…

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