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How honeybees self-medicate when they get sick
Just like us, honeybees get sick. But they have a clever way of protecting against parasites...
Prof Jaap de Roode from Emory University explains how beekeepers could have unintentionally put honeybees at risk by selecting against this self-medicating behaviour.
(Image: Honeybees, Credit: Getty Images.)
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