# @seed on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmtbq7uAkOw
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34247730-seed-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-08-20T17:57:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Seed (@seed) — https://gondola.cc/seed

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Honey bees are dying. And probiotics may just be the solution. This is SeedLabs—our planetary R+D arm established to develop and accelerate novel applications of bacteria to solve some of the biggest ecological problems facing our collective home, including honey bees.🐝🌍⠀
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Our Chief Scientist, Dr. Gregor Reid, and Seed Fellow, Brendan Daisley, have identified probiotic strains that show exciting potential to temper the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides, improve survival rates, and restore honey bee populations around the world¹. Delivered in probiotic BioPatties, these Lactobacilli strains increase immune resilience through a pathway that insects use to adapt to infection, heat, and other stresses. ⠀
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Field tests have begun in Canada and California². The results are incredibly promising and the development of a spray-based formula is also underway.⠀
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Our honey bee IP will be open-sourced and royalty-free for beekeepers and farmers around the world (if you’d like to participate in testing, bee in touch (😉) — seed.com/seedlabs 🐝. ⠀
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This is just the beginning. 🌱⠀
#SeedLabs #WorldHoneyBeeDay⠀
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¹ These probiotic BioPatties have also shown success in the prevention and treatment of a fatal bacterial disease called American foulbrood, caused by a spore forming bacterium called P. larvae.⠀
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² @matthewmodine ‘s and Brandie Rossi’s (@rossilenzcollective ) organization @beethedot will also launch a Citizen Science initiative to expand the research with beekeepers and farmers around the world in addition to expanded testing in California in collaboration with UC Cooperative Extension specialist, Elina L. Niño, at the University of California, Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.⠀
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