ASU Researchers: Bees Stressed As Babies Fare Better As Adults
April 14, 2016
From: KJZZ.org | Arizona Science & Innovation Desk
Bee colony populations have dropped more than half during the last decade but are slowly making a comeback. While scientists are not exactly sure what is causing this decline, Arizona researchers are pushing the limits of baby bees to see if it makes them stronger adults.
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At ASU’s Bee Lab, researcher Ying Wang is testing malnutrition effects by starving bees as larvae and again as adults. She and a team recently published two papers on the resiliency of bees in light of food shortage by measuring behavior, physiology and hormone regulation. The first paper suggests bees starved as larvae develop different adaptive responses compared to adult bees not starved as larvae.
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