Hygienic food to reduce pathogen risk to bumblebees
Abstract
Honey bee pollen can carry bumblebee pathogens. Irradiation of pollen reduced the infectiousness of pathogens to bumblebees. Irradiation was not fully effective at eliminating the Apicystis bombi pathogen.
- Publication:
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Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
- Pub Date:
- May 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jip.2016.03.007
- Bibcode:
- 2016JInvP.136...68G
- Keywords:
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- Commercially produced bumblebees;
- Disease;
- Pollination services;
- Bombus;
- Apicystis;
- Pollen