Bees adopt protective practices to fight the spread of a virus - gross

Promiscuity promotes the spread of viruses. What is true for a metro train is also true for a beehive. The bees that inhabit it have not adopted the solution of the compulsory mask, which is undoubtedly too complex to implement, but they have adopted a certain number of measures to prevent their colony from being too affected by a pathogenic agent.

Anti-bacterial doormat, detection by the smell of patients, sharing of tasks between outside and inside… Alison McAfee, researcher specializing in bees at the State University of North Carolina, in the United States , explains to our Brut partners how these hymenopterous insects have faced external attacks for millennia.

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