Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Diet affects pesticide resistance in honey bees

Diet affects pesticide resistance in honey bees


Feeding honey bees a natural diet of pollen makes them significantly more resistant to pesticides than feeding them an artificial diet, according to a team of researchers, who also found that pesticide exposure causes changes in expression of genes that are sensitive to diet and nutrition.

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