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In a first for honeybees, researchers found queens facing chronic pesticide exposure will protect themselves by shunting the toxic chemicals into their eggs, a newly documented defense mechanism known as maternal offloading that may contribute to delayed colony collapse.
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Queen bees offload pesticide burden to eggs when social buffering is overwhelmed

Encerrado-Manriquez et al. show that honey bee hive sociality influences pesticide deposition across hive matrices, with worker bees buffering the colony and the queen affecting colony-wide distribution patterns. Under chronic exposure, these social defen...

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