A new study says that the laboratory honey bees heavily declined until his life cycle reached only two weeks, after he was up to a month in the seventies of the last century.
According to the research published in the Scientific Reports, the decline in honey bees of half caused a severe decline in its numbers in general in recent years, according to the Gismino website.
The researchers say they reached these results when a research team was investigating how a bee was treated in a cage that contains different types of water.
The researchers found that providing bees with different types of water, instead of just sugar syrup, extends its average life. But during the research, the scientists found a stunning difference between the age of honey bees at the present time and the agent -documented age in the seventies, according to Deutsche Welle.
“We areolate the bees from the colony’s life before it reaches the age of puberty, so everything that reduces his life happens before returning to the colony,” said Anthony Nerman, an insect scientist at the University of Maryland and the head of the study.
Honey is an integral organ of most ecosystems due to its role in vaccination operations for plants, which helps to spread and reproduce and maintains genetic diversity.
Today – according to the scientists – it seems that the bees lack of genetic diversity is the one that harms it.
The researchers say that bees are an invaluable wealth of pollination, but they die quickly due to the increase in the spread of pesticides, the destruction of natural places for their livelihood, the spread of diseases and factors associated with climate change, such as dehydration.
Scientists note that the next step to study is to accurately verify the reasons for this disturbing trend to try to prolong the ages of honey bee again..
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