1 hour agoShareSaveGeorgina RannardClimate and science correspondentShareSaveGwyndaf Hughes/BBC”It’s really important in years when the summer came early and bees will not have sufficient pollen and nectar to make it through the winter,” she says.”The more months that they go without pollen, the more nutritional stress that they will face, which means that the beekeepers will have greater losses of those bees over winter,” she explains.Larger-scale trials are now needed to assess the long-term impacts of the food on honeybee health, but the supplement could be available to beekeepers and farmers within two years.The study was led by University of Oxford, working with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Greenwich, and the Technical University of Denmark. The research is published in the journal Nature.
