Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers provided bees with a nutritionally complete diet that boosted reproduction up to 15-fold. Unlike commercial substitutes that lack key nutrients, this supplement mimics natural pollen’s sterol profile, giving bees the equivalent of a balanced diet.
I lived in the Southwest when the africanized bees arrived, and there was indeed a sharp increase in attacks, a couple deaths over a a number of years, a lot of pets getting attacked. Then people just moved on and people learned to not fuck around with hives.
I don’t know if it was the queens de-agressing in the new environment or public awareness or just media hype dying down, or all of the above, but yeah, it turned out to be the least of our actual worries in the 21st century.