Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.
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"Join us in saving our native wild bees from extinction
"We are the people behind The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland, the first and only true Native Wild Bee sanctuary on the planet. A not-for-profit social enterprise, the only Certified Vegan Organic land in Ireland. Now, with your help, coming to a location near you!"
Reminder that, while good intentioned, raising honeybees to save bees is like raising chickens to save birds. Honeybees are farm animals and, as a species, are doing just fine. Many species of native bees, however, could use a hand (in part due to competition with, displacement by, and diseases spread by honeybees). Link below for more info/resource. Yes, this is a subtoot. #bees #pollinators https://www.xerces.org/blog/want-to-save-bees-focus-on-habitat-not-honey-bees
If you zoom in, you can see one of the several bees that were enjoying lunch (right before it started pouring down)
So happy we planted the lavender that "would never survive there".
#Florespondence #SaveThePollinators #LavenderGarden #Lavender #Bees #Bee #BeeLife
My first bee!! (That I’ve witnessed)
It’s hugely satisfying to finally see pollinators using this little pit stop I planted over 2 months ago! 🐝