Senior bees up all night caring for larvae

A bleary mom staggering into the nursery at 2 a.m. can tell her troubles to the

A forager honeybee can return to the arrhythmic life of round-the-clock infant care. USDA

honeybees.

Foraging worker bees are the first insects known to have a social trigger

radically change their biological rhythm, report Guy Bloch and Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.