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Immunity to Bacterial Infections in Honey Bees
- Dec 01, 2016
- By Peter Kilian
- In Articles, Bee Health, Research
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Honey bees constantly struggle against various bacterial and fungal species. For example, Nosema species are very detrimental parasitic fungi that infect honey bees and can cause great harm to an entire colony in a very short amount of time. A hive that is heavily infected with nosema will often collapse, leading to robbing behavior by other colonies and a…