Bees Deprived of Honey as Food Have Weaker Immune Systems

Kalender next 42tg

Mittwoch Mai 20 - All Day
-i- UNO Weltbienentag 20.05

Samstag Juni 20 - All Day
Sommersonnenwende

Event Kalender

«

<

Mai 2026

>

»

Banners

Aktuelle Seite: Home

Bienenprodukte

Apitherapie

Bees Deprived of Honey as Food Have Weaker Immune Systems

Veröffentlicht: Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2013 07:00 | Geschrieben von Apitherapie News | Drucken | E-Mail | Zugriffe: 5664

Honeybee Food May Contribute to U.S. Colony Collapse

BOSTON (Reuters ^[1]) - Bee keepers' use of corn syrup and other honey substitutes as bee feed may be contributing to colony collapse by depriving the insects of compounds that strengthen their immune systems, according to a study released on Monday.

U.S. bee keepers lost nearly a third of their colonies last winter as part of an ongoing and largely unexplained decline in the population of the crop-pollinating insects that could hurt the U.S. food supply.

A bee's natural food is its own honey, which contains compounds like p-coumaric acid that appear to help detoxify and strengthen a bee's immunity to disease, according to a study by scientists at the University of Illinois…

References

^{^} Reuters (www.scientificamerican.com)

Apitherapy News

Kategorie: Wissen / Apitherapie

Phänologie

Mahonie (Mahonia aquifolium)
(Erwartet seit 47 Tag(en))
Raps (Brassica napus)
(Erwartet seit 28 Tag(en))
Rosskastanie (Aesculus hippocastanum)
(Erwartet seit 24 Tag(en))
Immergrüne Lorbeer-Kirsche (Prunus laurocerasus)
(Erwartet seit 23 Tag(en))
Linde (latin linde)
(In 7 Tag(en))
Weiss Klee (Trifolium repens)
(In 24 Tag(en))
Strauch Fingerkraut (Potentilla fruticosa)
(In 31 Tag(en))
- - - - Sommersonnenwende - - - -
(In 34 Tag(en))

SmartBees - Sustaina…

Thomas Apiculture
Thomas Apiculture, Fabricant français de matériel apicole depuis 1905, Un choix de plus de 4000 ar…

Mo	Di	Mi	Do	Fr	Sa	So
27	28	29	30	1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Newsticker

Kalender next 42tg

Event Kalender

Banners