A honey bee hive tells all
Monday, January 12, 2015 - 16:31
in Biology & Nature
Exactly what plants do honey bees visit on their daily forages for food in rural Madison County, Ohio? A research team led by Dr. Reed Johnson from The Ohio State University has found that the answer lies in pollen DNA. They've collected pollen from a trapping device beneath beehives and developed a new method utilizing DNA metabarcoding to uncover the plants from which the pollen originated.