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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Vandy Widyalankara

Food supplements could help bees cope with climate crisis, research suggests

A honeybee feeds on a flower
Individual honeybees benefited from dietary supplements in lab tests, but colonies could react differently in the wider world. Photograph: Ross Hoddinott/The National Trust Photolibrary/Alamy

Food supplements for honeybees could help the insects better withstand temperature stresses linked to a changing climate, early research suggests.

Scientists found that worker bees fed a mixture of probiotics and inulin, a plant-derived prebiotic, survived prolonged cold exposure better than bees given an ordinary sugar diet.

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