{"id":7750,"date":"2026-02-23T07:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T11:20:54","slug":"fungal-extracts-influence-lifespan-and-immune-responses-in-the-carniolan-honey-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/fungal-extracts-influence-lifespan-and-immune-responses-in-the-carniolan-honey-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Fungal extracts influence lifespan and immune responses in the Carniolan honey bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5303\" src=\"https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/biotehniska-fakulteta-univerza-v-ljubljani.png\" alt=\"biotehniska-fakulteta-univerza-v-ljubljani\" width=\"140\" height=\"93\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7728\" src=\"https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/University-of-Life-Sciences-in-Lublin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"93\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7727\" src=\"https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/UM-Fakulteta-za-kmetijstvo-in-biosistemske-vede.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"93\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Abstract<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\">Various stressors reduce the health of honey bees (<i>Apis mellifera<\/i>) and colony survival. Therefore, there is an ongoing search for substances that strengthen bee immunity. Fungal extracts, which exhibit antimicrobial and antioxidant properties and mitigate viral infections, may prove to be such substances.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7730\" src=\"https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Survival-probability-of-Carniolan-honey-bees-300x214.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Survival-probability-of-Carniolan-honey-bees-300x214.png 300w, https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Survival-probability-of-Carniolan-honey-bees-287x205.png 287w, https:\/\/goba.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Survival-probability-of-Carniolan-honey-bees.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The aim of this study was to determine how fungal extracts from <i>Ganoderma lucidum <\/i>(GL), <i>Hericium erinaceus <\/i>(HE), <i>Inonotus obliquus <\/i>(IO), and <i>Trametes versicolor <\/i>(TV) affect Carniolan honey bee longevity, antioxidant activity (CAT, GPx, GST, SOD, and TAC levels) and metabolic marker activity (ALP, ALT, and AST).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blockquote\">\n<p class=\"p1\">This study demonstrates that<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><strong>including fungal extracts in the bee diet improves immune indicators in bees<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Haemolymph for biochemical analyses was collected from bees at 7, 14, and 21 days after exposure to fungal extracts and stored at \u201325\u00b0C until analysis. GL treatment increased bee longevity by 16.4% compared to untreated bees (p &lt; 0.0001). Bees fed with fungal extracts showed increased activities of metabolic markers and antioxidants after 14 and 21 days compared to bees only fed sugar syrup (p&lt;0.0001). Among all groups, bees fed IO had the highest levels of markers and antioxidants.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1096\" data-end=\"1281\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of this study was to determine the effect of four different fungal extracts (Ganoderma lucidum \u2013 GL, Hericium erinaceus \u2013 HE, Inonotus obliquus \u2013 IO, and Trametes versicolor \u2013 TV) on the survival rate, activities of metabolic markers (ALP, ALT, and AST) and antioxidant enzyme activities (CAT, GPx, GST, and SOD), and TAC levels in A. m. carnica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1072],"tags":[1073,1074,1077,1075,1076,1078],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies","tag-antioxidant-enzymes","tag-bee-nutrition","tag-fungi","tag-haemolymph","tag-insect-immunity","tag-metabolic-markers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11972,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/11972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}