Pesticides in the Hive (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Pesticides in the Hive

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Exposure to naturally occurring defensive compounds in flowers may have allowed honey bees to better tolerate some synthetic pesticides used to kill mites in the hive.

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L. Brian Stauffer

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