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Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)
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Using CRISPR-Cas9, scientists engineered a yeast to produce the nutrient feed. Farmers could have it in two years.

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[–] Town@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The article suggests that if the farmed honey bees get this engineered food, that would leave more wild forrage for native bees.

I suspect native bees would also benefit from eating it too.

[–] ExFed@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Being married to a pollinator ecologist has taught me at least one thing: honeybees are overrated. Native bees are waaay cooler.

I'm glad the article said something about the impact to native bee populations, and I expect the same, but it would've been much nicer if the paper said something about them. For now we're stuck with speculation...