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Could a mushroom save the honeybee?
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Interesting, anyone heard of this?

Honeybees need a healthy diet of pollen, nectar and water. But at a bee laboratory in eastern Washington, Steve Sheppard fills their feeding tubes with murky brown liquid from the forest.

His bees are getting a healthy dose of mushroom juice.

“If this does what we hope, it will be truly revolutionary,” said Sheppard, who heads the Department of Entomology at Washington State University. “Beekeepers are running out of options.”

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Wow, very interesting.

Makes me want to raise bees, too.

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any regulations against them in your area?

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none except the ones my wife put into place...

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what? No goats and no bees? That's un american I tell ya!

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