ASU Researchers Discover that Short-Term Starvation Makes Bees Stronger as Adults (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

ASU Researchers Discover that Short-Term Starvation Makes Bees Stronger as Adults

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Short-term starvation as larvae actually makes honey bees more resilient to nutritional deprivation as adults. This suggests they have an anticipatory mechanism like solitary organisms do. These findings change the current understanding of colony collapse disorder and provide new avenues to study.

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Christofer Bang

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