{"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\/fra\/honey-bees-can-choose-food-contaminated-by-viruses\/","title":{"rendered":"Les abeilles peuvent choisir la nourriture contamin\u00e9e par des virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les abeilles peuvent d\u00e9tecter des substances sp\u00e9cifiques dans leurs sources de nourriture. Par exemple, elles peuvent <a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/can-honey-bees-learn-to-avoid-pesticides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">d\u00e9tecter la pr\u00e9sence de pesticides<\/a> et \u00e9viter sa consommation. Mais peuvent-ils \u00e9galement d\u00e9tecter les agents pathog\u00e8nes ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Une \u00e9tude r\u00e9cemment publi\u00e9e dans la revue Biology Letters montre que les abeilles peuvent d\u00e9tecter les virus dans leur nourriture, mais elles choisissent souvent de la nourriture contamin\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dans des essais en cage o\u00f9 les abeilles pouvaient choisir entre un sirop de sucre pur et un sirop contamin\u00e9 par des virus tels que le virus de la Loque Am\u00e9ricaine (DWV), le virus de la Maladie Noire des Reineaux ou le virus de la Paralysie Chronique des Abeilles, les abeilles pr\u00e9f\u00e9raient le sirop pur pendant l'\u00e9t\u00e9. Cependant, en automne, elles choisissaient le sirop contamin\u00e9 par les virus significativement plus souvent. Dans des essais au champ, la consommation de sirop contamin\u00e9 \u00e9tait plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e durant toutes les saisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les raisons de ce changement saisonnier de comportement ne sont pas encore claires, mais ces d\u00e9couvertes pourraient \u00eatre importantes pour comprendre la sant\u00e9 des colonies et l'\u00e9pid\u00e9miologie des maladies virales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aller au texte int\u00e9gral <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/rsbl\/article\/22\/4\/20250630\/481200\/Attraction-versus-avoidance-honeybees-vary-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ici<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Une \u00e9tude r\u00e9cemment publi\u00e9e dans la revue Biology Letters montre que les abeilles peuvent d\u00e9tecter les virus dans leur nourriture, mais elles choisissent souvent de la nourriture contamin\u00e9e.<br \/>\nDans des essais en cage o\u00f9 les abeilles mellif\u00e8res pouvaient choisir entre un sirop de sucre pur et un sirop contamin\u00e9 par des virus tels que le virus de la maladie des ailes d\u00e9form\u00e9es (DWV), le virus des cellules royales noires (BQCV) ou le virus de la paralysie chronique des abeilles (CBPV), les abeilles ont pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9 le sirop pur pendant l'\u00e9t\u00e9. 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