Pollen-sized technology protects bees from deadly insecticides

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A Beemmunity employee, Abraham McCauley, applies a pollen patty containing microsponges to a hive as part of colony trials.

A Cornell-developed technology provides beekeepers, consumers and farmers with an antidote for pesticides, some of which may kill wild bees and can contribute to beekeepers losing around a third of their hives every year on average.