The paper, itself, includes that link, in its refs, btw…
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-foldFarmers provide their animals, bees included, with what feed they can buy.
The fact that animal-feed is chemically-deficient isn’t the fault of the farmers, it is the fault of shoddy standards in animal-feed being more profitable than quality/integrity’s standards,
& nobody legislated proper-nutrition-requirements for things like animal-food, baby-food, etc.
For-profit operations ONLY increase their costs when that increases profits, XOR when they’re coerced into producing correct product/service.
Basic narcissism-centered economics, that.
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-foldTTBOMK, beekeepers feed bees sugar-syrup during the winter, to get them through, & to top-up their diet, so they produce more honey,
& feed them pollen in the spring ( activates swarming in them, so they have to be careful with that ).
Bees naturally get 1st-pollen from conifer trees, not flowers, from what I’ve seen, which would have a drastically different chemical-profile, so terpenes may be a meaningful antiviral for them, that they aren’t getting in the syrup-supplement, making them more prone to colony-collapse-disorder ( I’ve read that ALL colony-collapse-disorder bees are infected with both a virus & a fungus, don’t remember which, & that NONE of the still-healthy hives in that research had both those 2 items )
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