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Pollen becoming bee junk food as CO2 rises

Greenhouse gas threatens nutrition for pollinators

a bee visiting a goldenrod flower

JUNK FOOD  Bees may not be getting the nutrition they used to as rising CO2 in the atmosphere lowers protein concentrations in pollen from certain goldenrods and probably other plants.

David Smith

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Bees may need their own supplemental protein shakes as increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere saps the nutritional quality of pollen.