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More Hemp = More Bees
Red Belly Honey is helping bees survive pesticide poisoning. When bees have access to hemp they're able to resist the pesticide and this extends their lifecycle by 45-60 days!
Remarkably, a recent study from the Department of Invertebrate Ecophysiology and Experimental Biology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland about bees and hemp and another supporting study from Colorado State University found that hemp extracts could be the key to protecting bees who have been exposed to neonicotinoids.
The Polish researchers studied around 5,000 bees, looking at the potential protective effects of hemp extracts against neonicotinoid pesticides.
Inspired by reports that hemp extract protects human nerve cells, the researchers decided to check whether it would be the same in the case of a bee.
The research team found that bees exposed to both a neonicotinoid pesticide and hemp extract not only lived longer than the bees only exposed to the pesticide, but they also lived just as long as the bees that had no contact all with the pesticide.
It’s believed that the use of such hemp extracts could present a major breakthrough in the future of bee conservation.
Bees’ apparent soft spot for cannabis/hemp could be key to tackling the problem of declining bee populations. Unlike many other crops that require pesticides to grow, hemp can be grown virtually pesticide-free, leaving bees free to safely extract their pollen without also picking up the harmful chemicals.
Hemp extract significantly increased the activity of antioxidant enzymes, extending the life of bees to 49 days (for the strip method) and 56 days (for the syringe method). In addition, we showed that a faster and stronger effect was obtained during supplementation in syrup in syringes, where the activities for the enzymes SOD, CAT, GPx, GST, and TAC were the highest. Thanks to this, we believe that hemp extract can in the future contribute to the improvement of the natural immunity of honey bees and help them with the fight against environmental pollution and the increase of oxidative stress.
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