Water provisioning increases caged worker bee lifespan and caged worker bees are living half as long as observed 50 years ago

Abstract The high loss rates of honey bee colonies drive research for solutions aimed to mitigate these losses. While honey bee colonies are superorganisms, experiments that measure the response to stressors often use caged individuals to allow for inference in a controlled setting. In an initial ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anthony Nearman, Dennis vanEngelsdorp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-21401-2