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Traces of nature in a spoon – what does the honey DNA map tell us about our landscape?

A DNA map of Lithuanian honey: what do the genetic traces of plants tell us about our honey? How many plants are actually contained in a single spoonful of Lithuanian honey? A beekeeper can often predict quite accurately where their honey comes from. The flowering season, the abundance of plants around the apiary, and the […]

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Bees – environmental indicators: how the ‘Insignia-EU’ study proved the purity of urban honey

About ‘INSIGNIA-EU’: When bees become allies in international science Have you ever considered that these tiny, buzzing creatures could become invaluable monitors of environmental pollution and biodiversity? This is precisely what the international collaborative project ‘INSIGNIA-EU’ has demonstrated – a large-scale citizen science initiative led by scientists from 11 organisations and 10 different countries, and funded by

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