Nosemosis negatively affects honeybee survival: experimental and meta-analytic evidence
Monika Ostap-Chec, Jessica Cait, R Wilder Scott, Aneta Arct, Dawid Moroń, Marcin Rapacz, Krzysztof Miler · 2024
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Monika Ostap-Chec and co-authors weigh how deadly a bee disease is, in this 2024 study. Nosemosis, caused by tiny Nosema parasites, troubles honeybees that pollinate crops worldwide. Yet how much it cuts bee survival was disputed, so the team paired their own cage trial with a pooled review of past work.
In their trial, infected worker bees died at about three times the rate of healthy bees. The pooled review of fifty studies gave nearly the same figure. Results varied a lot between studies, though, and the usual suspects, such as spore dose or bee age, did not explain the spread. The authors also flag bias risks in the past work. They stress that cage trials are only a first step and that field studies must guide real treatments.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Monika Ostap-Chec, Jessica Cait, R Wilder Scott, Aneta Arct, Dawid Moroń, Marcin Rapacz, Krzysztof Miler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |