Lactobacillus johnsonii VPro 33 and Improved Pollinator Population Health

• Lactobacillus johnsonii CRL1647, isolated from Apis mellifera L. bee-gut, exhibited a beneficial effect on honeybee colonies.

  • 2011-03-01
  • Beneficial Microbes 2(1)
  • • M. Audisio
    • M. R. Benítez-Ahrendts

  • PubMed: 21831787
  • DOI: 10.3920/BM2010.0024

  4 Insights on

  • Improved Pollinator Population Health

  • Low evidence

  a higher number of bees were measured in the treated group (54%) and the control (18%) with respect to the initial bees' number.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Large