'Nature's medicine cabinet' helps bees reduce disease load
Amherst MA (SPX) Feb 20, 2015 - Researchers studying the interaction between plants, pollinators and parasites report that in recent experiments, bees infected with a common intestinal parasite had reduced parasite levels in their guts after seven days if the bees also consumed natural toxins present in plant nectar. In this early and most comprehensive study of its kind, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Am ... more
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