{"id":3393,"date":"2026-07-02T08:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=3393"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:12:36","slug":"honey-bees-can-choose-food-contaminated-by-viruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/honey-bees-can-choose-food-contaminated-by-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Las abejas mel\u00edferas pueden elegir alimentos contaminados por virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las abejas mel\u00edferas pueden detectar sustancias espec\u00edficas en sus fuentes de alimento. Por ejemplo, pueden <a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/can-honey-bees-learn-to-avoid-pesticides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">detectar la presencia de pesticidas<\/a> y evitar consumirlo. \u00bfPero tambi\u00e9n pueden detectar pat\u00f3genos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Un estudio publicado recientemente en la revista Biology Letters muestra que las abejas mel\u00edferas pueden detectar virus en su alimento, pero a menudo prefieren el alimento contaminado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En ensayos en jaula donde las abejas pod\u00edan elegir entre jarabe de az\u00facar puro y jarabe contaminado con virus como DWV, virus de la c\u00e9lula real negra o virus de la par\u00e1lisis cr\u00f3nica de las abejas, las abejas prefirieron el jarabe puro durante el verano. Sin embargo, en oto\u00f1o, eligieron el jarabe contaminado con virus significativamente con mayor frecuencia. En ensayos de campo, el consumo de jarabe contaminado fue mayor en todas las estaciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las razones de este cambio estacional en el comportamiento a\u00fan no est\u00e1n claras, pero los hallazgos podr\u00edan ser importantes para comprender la salud de las colonias y la epidemiolog\u00eda de las enfermedades virales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ve al texto completo <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/rsbl\/article\/22\/4\/20250630\/481200\/Attraction-versus-avoidance-honeybees-vary-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Un estudio publicado recientemente en la revista Biology Letters muestra que las abejas mel\u00edferas pueden detectar virus en su alimento, pero a menudo prefieren el alimento contaminado.<br \/>\nIn cage trials in which honey bees could choose between pure sugar syrup and syrup contaminated with viruses such as DWV, Black Queen Cell Virus or Chronic Bee Paralysis Virus, the bees preferred the pure syrup during the summer. 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