Insecticides at undetectable levels impact Honey Bee health

The take home message in the article linked below:

“The finding that individual bees with undetectable levels of the target pesticide, after being reared in a sub-lethal pesticide environment within the colony, had higher Nosema is significant.”

Pesticide exposure in honey bees results in increased levels of the gut pathogen Nosema

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00114-011-0881-1

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