Honeybees given prebiotics and probiotics may survive better under temperature-related stress, suggesting that such nutritional supplements might enhance colony resilience

Honeybees given prebiotics and probiotics may survive better under temperature-related stress, suggesting that such nutritional supplements might enhance colony resilience

Article URL : https://plos.io/4ykSBQq

Article title: Protecting honey bees (Apis mellifera) from thermal stress: Probiotics and prebiotics buffer the survival and antioxidant enzyme activity

Author countries: Iran, Canada.

Funding: This work was financially supported by the University of Zabol, Iran, through funding provided to Najmeh Sahebzadeh. In addition, Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR; grant numbers 2024F2208R and 2022N093R), the Alberta Beekeepers Commission (ABC), and the Alberta Pollination Group supported Rassol Bahreini’s collaboration on this project.

PLOS One

10.1371/journal.pone.0352149

Protecting honey bees (Apis mellifera) from thermal stress: Probiotics and prebiotics buffer the survival and antioxidant enzyme activity

15-Jul-2026

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.