May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

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May Berenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum and her colleagues identified specific enzymes in the honey bee midgut that allow it to detoxify pesticides used to kill mites.

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