Flowers critical link to bacteria transmission in wild bees
Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 05:31
in Biology & Nature
Flowers are a hot spot of transmission of bacteria that end up in the microbiome of wild bees, new research has found. The work shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria. Bees therefore obtain both food and bacteria from flowers. These bacteria may play important roles in bee health.