A new study proposes that honeybees could help humans make decisions about the health of their urban surroundings.
Donate NowUrban honeybee hives may serve as tiny lighthouses, notifying people of the good and bad germs moving through their neighborhoods, according to a study
Honeybees were solid candidates because they interact with an untold number of places as they forage for food. Each of those settings can harbor a microbiome — a collection of microorganisms or germs that’s unique. Our bodies, the sidewalks outside, the smartphones in our hands and pretty much any non-sterile thing can harbor these invisible ecosystems of bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Hénaff and her colleagues think that bees may encounter these spaces even while the bugs are mostly focused on finding plants and sweets during their foraging missions. That’s how they end up carrying this cornucopia of germs back to a hive. The honeybee hives gave clues to environmental germs that could be beneficial or harmful to humans, plants and the bees themselves. But honeybees typically forage within a 2-mile radius around their hive — an area in NYC that could stretch from downtown Brooklyn to Prospect Park and contain hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
The researchers then used DNA analysis to identify all the random germs that had been brought back to the hives, using a technique known as metagenomics.
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