Study finds honeybee queens pass pesticides to eggs to protect themselves
A new University of California, Davis study has found that honeybee queens chronically exposed to pesticides can transfer those contaminants The post Study finds honeybee queens pass pesticides to…
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Honeybee queens pass pesticide burden to their eggs, study finds
Worker bees filter most pesticide out of a queen’s food, but that protection breaks down over time, and the toxic load ends up in her eggs.
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