Agricultural Research Service: Microbes on Menu for Bee Larvae
August 20, 2019
August 20, 2019
MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service issued the following news:
Bees only feast on nectar and pollen, right?
Wrong. Turns out, Nature's famously busy insect isn't strictly vegan, after all.
Reporting online in this month's American Naturalist, a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists has shown that bee larvae (brood) have a taste for "microbial meat."
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Bees only feast on nectar and pollen, right?
Wrong. Turns out, Nature's famously busy insect isn't strictly vegan, after all.
Reporting online in this month's American Naturalist, a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists has shown that bee larvae (brood) have a taste for "microbial meat."
. . .