Bee Visits Flower for Nectar (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Bee Visits Flower for Nectar

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Ph.D. student Evan Palmer-Young and advisor evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler had hoped an earlier finding of reduced parasite load with anabasine consumption was evidence that bees may use "nature's medicine cabinet" to rid themselves of it. But in the current issue of PLOS ONE they report that result was not repeated.

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