{"id":38928,"date":"2018-10-09T08:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T13:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38928"},"modified":"2018-10-09T08:11:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T13:11:34","slug":"new-study-suggests-glyphosate-can-kill-bees-by-damaging-their-microbiomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38928","title":{"rendered":"New Study Suggests Glyphosate Can Kill Bees By Damaging Their Microbiomes"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Study Suggests Glyphosate Can Kill Bees By Damaging Their Microbiomes<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/center>We already know that glyphosate \u2013 the main ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup herbicide \u2013 can damage the human gut<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0killing beneficial bacteria.\u00a0Now, an alarming new study has revealed that glyphosate can also damage the guts of honey bees.<\/p>\n

The research, conducted at The University of Texas at Austin and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>on September 24, shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts. This makes the bees more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria.<\/p>\n

Scientists believe this is evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to the years-long\u00a0decline of honey bees<\/a> and native bees around the world.<\/p>\n

In a press release<\/a>, the researchers explained their findings:<\/p>\n

Because glyphosate interferes with an important enzyme found in plants and microorganisms, but not in animals, it has long been assumed to be nontoxic to animals, including humans and bees. But this latest study shows that by altering a bee\u2019s gut microbiome \u2014 the ecosystem of bacteria living in the bee\u2019s digestive tract, including those that protect it from harmful bacteria \u2014 glyphosate compromises its ability to fight infection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To conduct the study, the research team took 2,000 honey bees from hives at the University of Texas campus and fed them either a low dose of glyphosate, a high dose, or a glyphosate-free syrup.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for glyphosate to cause problems for the bees involved in the study: after only three days of exposure\u00a0at levels known to occur in crop fields, yards, and roadsides, the herbicide\u00a0significantly reduced healthy gut microbiota. \u201cOf eight dominant species of healthy bacteria in the exposed bees, four were found to be less abundant. The hardest hit bacterial species,\u00a0Snodgrassella alvi<\/em>, is a critical microbe that helps bees process food and defends against pathogens,\u201d the researchers reported.<\/p>\n

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New Study Suggests Glyphosate Can Kill Bees By Damaging Their Microbiomes We already know that glyphosate \u2013 the main ingredient in Monsanto\u2019s Roundup herbicide \u2013 can damage the human gut\u00a0by\u00a0killing beneficial bacteria.\u00a0Now, an alarming new study has revealed that glyphosate can also damage the guts of honey bees. The research, conducted at The University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[66,22215,4473,22216,4474,5579,20367,22214,4131,6787,4470],"class_list":["post-38928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bees","tag-beneficial-bacteria","tag-glyphosate","tag-gut-bacteria","tag-herbicide","tag-honey-bees","tag-lisa-egan","tag-microbiomes","tag-monsanto","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38929,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928\/revisions\/38929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}