They also found that eating certain fungicides made bees more susceptible to infection by Nosema, a deadly microbe.

还发现吞食某种杀真菌剂使得蜜蜂更易受致命虫的感染。

He says that many of the pesticide found in the pollen examined by Dennis VanEngelsdorp actually protect bees from Nosema.

他说，丹尼斯·范恩格斯德多普花粉中检验出来的杀虫剂很多事实上都保护蜜蜂不受虫的危害。

A paper published earlier this year in Naturwissenschaften, for example, showed that even small doses of neonicotinoids weakened bees' resistance to Nosema, a common fungal parasite.

例如今年早些时候自然科学杂志刊登的一篇论文说明即便是小剂量的新烟碱削弱蜜蜂对小虫-一种真菌寄虫的抵抗力。