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Subject Honeybees sterilise their hives with antimicrobial resin, give the whole colony a form of "social immunity", scientists have discovered

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Original Message In doing so, they give the whole colony a form of "social immunity", which lessens the need for each individual bee to have a strong immune system.
Although honeybee resin is known to kill a range of pathogens, this is the first time that bees themselves have been shown to utilise its properties.

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