By Mike Barrett
Glyphosate, the highly controversial weed-killing chemical found in the popular Roundup herbicide, is harming honeybee populations around the world, a new study shows.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin say glyphosate is making honeybees more susceptible to infection and death.
The study is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The authors write that bees who came in contact with glyphosate had lower levels of the healthy gut bacteria needed to digest food and prevent illness and were more likely to die from pathogens. When researchers introduced honeybees to the pathogen Serratia marcescens, approximately half …read more
Source: naturalsociety.com
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