Honey Bee Nutrition Might be Key to Healthy Populations

Cups with different macronutrient mixes are presented to bees in these small cups.

Honey Bee Nutrition Might be Key to Healthy Populations
Honey Bee Nutrition Might be Key to Healthy Populations

Pierre Lau, AgriLife Research graduate assistant, and a Texas A&M University doctoral candidate, in the honey bee laboratory

Fri, 10/02/2020 - 5:00am

A newly funded Texas A&M AgriLife Research project seeks to slow population losses among more than 2.6 million managed honey bee colonies in the U.S. Honey bees provide pollination services that uphold $16 billion in U.S. agricultural crops. However, managed colonies have seen annual declines. Those include a 40% decline as ...

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