Honey Bees and the Insominator (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin

Honey Bees and the Insominator

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To deprive honey bees of sleep, Dr. Barrett Klein used a magnetic contraption called the "insominator" (on the left). Sleeping bees affixed with a small piece of metal were jostled awake when the insominator passed over them. Klein found that sleeplessness led to poor signaling by foraging bees about the location of food sources.

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Dr. Barrett Klein, pupating.org.

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