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Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources - Scientific Reports

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Citizen science monitoring reveals links between honeybee health, pesticide exposure and seasonal availability of floral resources - Scientific Reports

We use a national citizen science monitoring scheme to quantify how agricultural intensification affects honeybee diet breadth (number of plant species). To do this we used DNA metabarcoding to identify the plants present in 527 honey samples collected in 2019 across Great Britain. The species richness of forage plants was negatively correlated with arable cropping area, although this was only found early in the year when the abundance of flowering plants was more limited.

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