This feels like a spot of good news
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
Or we could just stop stealing their honey π€¦
Love this for future generations.
Bumble bees and other native bees are endangered. Honey bees are introduced/invasive to North America
Oh beehive Austin. Fantastic News! π¬π
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Good news are very scarce.
Imagine that! "Good news." Great to get some of that again :)
Awesome π
Itβs a damning indictment that we even have it as a problem to solve in the first place.
Go Science! Gee maybe we need to actually study things to progress as a society? If AI is so smart why didnβt it do the research!!!
This is amazing. I have seen ONE honeybee in my yard in 10 years. Even my bumblebees are declining fast. I want my honeybees back. I never spray chemicals and have all kinds of pests but I don't want to kill the bees.
The beesβ knees!
Give us the nutrients
This is huge news! Bees are essential pollinators, and discovering the nutrients that let colonies thrive could be a game-changer for ecosystems and agriculture alike. Science saving our pollinators!
This really is good news! Let's feed those bees!
This is good news, we can be bees.
Am I the only one thinking that instead of spending funds on finding this out just to try making a fake substitute for pollen.. they couldβve built an X-Files sized habitat full of real, organic plants full of real pollen for them to feed off of for eternity? IDK Iβm no scientist.
This could offer a renewed life that affects every living thing bees touch.
Vitamin bee
Fuck yeah, maybe honey won't go extinct :)
This is the best news all year!
Mark this is GOOD news!
We can feed bees!
Is this related to that colony collapse disorder I once read about?
Itβs totally fine that we rage along to make war, wealth, endless things and change the planet in radical, many irreversible ways but maybe we can devote a little time and energy to saving a few things, right? Thatβs totally awesome, right? Like βnailed itβ
Yes. SCIENCE!
Maaan π birds
As long as people stop using the toxins that kill them, this is great news!
Full-stack developer, photographer, music lover, and lifter of heavy things.
So of course it will cost a fortune
More good news. We keep enjoying your books. This time it is "Agent to the Stars." You keep my wife and me entertained while we drive.
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Some good news!
Beautiful piece of work from University of Oxford
Oh. Like I need statins and blood pressure meds. Pharmacopeia panacea optimum
I certainly thought so.
I love honey bees
This could be a game changer just in the nick of time.
Sweet. No pun intended!
Now this is GREAT news! We need this at the top of news feeds, these scientists may have saved the protectors of our food. That is excellent!
Vitamin bee
Honeybees are livestock... between mites, and foul brood, and declining nutritional value of pollen, there is pressure on producers. There may be a benefit to supplementation.
BUT the reality is, supplements are often not cost effective due to greed.
and there is no benefit to native bees.
I wonder what unintended consequences can follow from a super-nutrient that increases swarms 15-fold? It would take a genius sci-fi author to play that out, huh.
It is good news.
Wow. Science. Who knew it could solve problems.
Rejoice!
Ha yes this is very good news. I need all I can get these days.
Let me guess ... it's Vitamin B.
Let's not applaud this.
All the food and resources bees need grow naturally in nature.
We took away their natural resources. They died. Give them access to their natural resources.
They dont need man-made nutritional supplements.
They need plants that support hive and bee health.
Really good news ππΌππΌππΌππΌππΌ
SCIENCE IS CRUCIAL TO LIFE AND LIVING !!!!!!
I didnβt see anywhere that they told us what to plant in our yard. I plant many species, even wildflowers, specifically for hummingbirds since moldy sugar water feeders can be deadly to hummers. If I knew what to plant for bees, I would. A list of plants they need would be very helpful.
We should have thought that through...
Oh! That is good news!
Wasn't this the plot of every horror film in the 50s?
They're coming to take over your town! Bees on Roids That ain't honey, honey!
Thanks! I needed that.
Science!!!
I'll take it!
Didn't read the article, but that could be huge. Colony collapse is such horrific danger.
Kew Garden is my happy place. Love their work.
What worries me though is the fact that the earth is getting warmer, yes we can boost the populations for now. However, wild honey bees may have a rough road ahead of them.
"Climate change and agricultural intensification have increasingly deprived honeybees of the floral diversity they need to thrive."
So we can kick the can down the road by feeding them supplements, but the real problem is only going to get worse.
More bees less problems
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Ah, nice!!
Thank goodness for science!! ππ
"I, for one, welcome our new bee overlords!"
This is amazing!!!!
Not really these need are an invasive species and should be eradicated, for the most part.
Honey bees are actually horrible for biodiversity and whole hives are being lost to mites and disease due to this monoculture,
Itβs great news! now if we can stop the planet from burning theyβll have plenty of things to pollinate (I know, wet sock)
Imagine what could be accomplished if we funded research in the USA and stopped the brain drain -
Itβs those little voices in my head
I can go forth with a fuller heart knowing they are still here...
@goodjuju4all.bsky.social Any thoughts about this?
Bees are life
Very hopeful, 'mon the bees
Yes. Itβs nice to have some good news
It seems like good news, until you learn the supplement comes from... HUMAN BRAINS!
Those poor bees are gonna starve.
Coffee!! Just kidding
The bee's kneeds, so to speak.
Is it Brawndo?
Great, I planted clover; everybody, who loves around me, hates me. That stuff spreads really fast. The bees do love it.
I will buy some when goes to matket
That's good to hear...ππππ
Itβs human eyes, John. The bees need human eyes.
And there's lot more of this where that came from. If world feels like too bleak place I recommend checking this reddit thread: Uplifting News. They share only positive news that mostly aren't reported in mass media, should help to restore some hope to humanity? www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingN...
A place to read and share positive and uplifting, feel good news stories.
This is amazing news!!
Hey, WAIT A MINUTE HERE! Science is bad, isn't it? Completely woke, I was told by Pedodent Trump and his racist band of thugs! That's why they are canceling everything science, right?
I'm surprised there hasn't been more buzz about it.
Fascinating
VERY GOOD NEWS, INDEED! (We needed it)!π
Yay
Wow! Scientists doing good things. Someone should tell the orange asshole.
I miss the country that used to do science.
How will republicans screw this up?
Yay bees!π
I read the headline and your comment and hoped the missing nutrient was Republicans.
It s like puting a band aid on the Wooden leg . The problem is the chemical industry and their bug killers .
A warm spring day. Too early for most flowers. You put out a plate with artificial pollen to help the hive get a kick start of protein.
The hive empties out to roll in the pollen and get all dusty white.
They are happy and fly in vortex around the hive box.
A blizzard of excitement. Memorable.
LETS GOOOOOOOOO
Excellent π
Good for beekeepers, but the status quo remains for plants pollinated by native bees
Please save the honeybees please save nature get rid of the MAGA scum, fuckers destroying our planet !!
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Wonderful!
Okay where am I going wrong with the math? βColonies fed with the enriched diet were more likely to continue rearing brood up to the end of the three-month period, whereas colonies on sterol-deficient diets ceased brood production after 90 days.β Last time I checked, 3 months closely = 90 days
This is one of those little things that solves some enormous problem.....while ordinary people never knew there was a problem and never realized it went away.
Like salmon farming.
Hope this isn't yet another fake science paper; this is a real problem & the SFU site, fakenews.research.sfu.ca, deems this fake news, but may be wrong because the paper is new. Second time I've seen this "sterol" Bee Panacea. I don't know who to BEElieve anymore. I am sure I am lying to myself too.
Oh snap
Scientists discover vitamin Bee.
Yes it does! Just shared with my beekeeper friend.
Excellent
Hmm, more invasive European bugs eating artificial food... USA out of North America! 1492 was a mistake! #Landback! π π
Song by The Scientists: π΅I know what bees like, I know what drones need, I know what bees like... Bees like yeast. (Sterols, in yeast)π΅
We donβt need more honeybees. We need more native bees.
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Listen and make your own on Suno.
Yay!
Thanks for that article, we have had a decline in honeybee visits lately, in a way that's good since it encourages wild bee populations to fill the gap, but it is still concerning. We have 3 different bumblebee species, about 3 wild bee species & they seem to be flourishing. Too many pesticides!
This is great but thereβs actually an abundance of honey bees. Native bees should get our support
Is it the orange powder that Cheetos are dusted with? Joking! I love the bees been missing them in the garden hope that this discovery is truly the puzzle piece to save the colonies
Itβs crazy how such a little thing can be such big news. And very, very good news. Thank you!
I wish those nutrients were processed meat of MAGA corpses
Article was so interesting!!
That's great news! Thanks for sharing.
It is a glimmer of hope. But it could make them dependant on humans.
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Iβm just here looking for the Vitamin Bee jokes.
Interestingly, perhaps similarly, brewerβs yeast helps human mothers produce more breastmilk.
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Well that's good news.
Brawndo?
Bees on steroids. What could possibly go wrong�
Thatβs great news!
Let's hope that if this works well it's not just used with commercially mono-cropped bees. They are stressing wild bee populations, and there are MANY advantages the wild bees have over farmed ones. This is a very interesting video on a very specialized bee species- www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvf...
YouTube video by PBS Terra
Yes,that is a spot of great news. Wooowoooo!!!!!π½πͺπΊπΊπ¦π»
pulled it up ...
Oxford University
Moore etal (2025) Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees DOI 10.1038/s41586-025-09431-y
Genetic engineering of a yeast strain provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybee colonies.
a 15 fold increase is almost unheard of ...
I'd like to know if there are any effects with the nominal life cycle of the honey bee ...
This makes me very very happy! π π
This is excellent news.
Are they going to spray miracle water on crops so that bees pollinate them ?
ππππ I sure hope the King (Charles because itβs Oxford) doesnβt willy nilly decide to cut the funding like some other heads of state are known to do!!!
Stolen and posted.
Thanks for the good news
I just watched the robotic bees episode of "Black Mirror" so saving bees is utmost in my mind at this moment.
This is really good news! Glad to hear it. I am surprised it was science who found this though. I thought it would be the southern evangelical preachers who would deliver us through prayer. Or perhaps super taco couldβve helped us out?
This sounds like really good news! Glad to hear it.
Fascinating!
Thanks!
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Great news, but I see it was a discovery in the UK.
This is what won't happen in the present state of the U.S., and will happen even less if the current disaster continues.
Hot damn!
I've seen first hand in our previous home Province what man had done to the bee population with chemical sprays. In my new home, where chemicals are taboo, I have literally hundreds of solitaries buzzing around doing their business. It's not a coincidence. Save the bees, or lose our existence.
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Vitamin B?
Yes at least someone recognizes with bees, the agriculture food chain collapses
The world is insane.
But it is good news.
Hyped-up bees! Just what we need! π€£π€£π€£
Great news!
It's good news for cultivated honeybees, but other types of bees are still in danger.
Fantastic news!
Congratulations to the researchers!
Cue the USA cancelling all bee research in 1..2β¦
Fantastic, because the way we are going with pesticides etc we will wipe out world bee populations in less than 30 years.
WOW
This tweaked pesticide is to be sold to apiaries devastated by diseases caused by pesticides.
So why not just limit the widespread use of bee-killing chemicals like neonicotinoids? Too logical?
(Interesting to note that this robo-yeast is also used to make stevia extract, a "natural" sweetener.)
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Yippee
Original Source, too
A new study led by the University of Oxford could provide a cost-effective and sustainable solution to help tackle the devastating decline in honeybees. An engineered food supplement, designed to
Scientists-booooo! Scientists know nothingβjust ask RFKJr.
A whole town a Bee Sanctuary! Wonderful.
Look for this sterol mix @ PETCO ? Seriously. Want to feed the hive that's lived in a corner of my roof for years but seems smaller these days
Why are they not getting the six essential sterols from their environment?
We had such big happy bees surround our lavender bushes this summer. π
Donβt get your hopes up. Trump will outlaw it.
Feels but isn't. Because we destroy environment that once was a bee paradise. If science finds out to get them feed in no-nature around it's bad news.
Maybe we'll avoid that Black Mirror future with the artificial bees after all
When will beekeepers be able to get it to our hives?
'Twas sugar all along
WONDERFUL! Can you imagine dissecting a nurse bee?
GMOs for the win.
If itβs of interest to you as an environmental issue, itβs probably not that significant. More important would be to support native pollinators by improving habitat and minimizing use of pesticides.
Honeybees are an important tool in commercial ag, so if thatβs your interest, yes, good news.
Wow! Thatβs wonderful news!
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Indeed!
