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Re: pesticide resistance
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Juanse Barros <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:33:28 -0300
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Peter Loring Borst wrote:

> We then looked at nutrition in more detail and saw an upregulation of
> detoxification genes when consuming pollen. We followed this with a
> survival analysis and found that pollen-fed honey bees have a reduced
> sensitivity to pesticide exposure.
>

wouldn't this be a good reason why bees in canola suffer less from neonic
coated seed than when bees work other plants (maiz, sunflower,?)

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