A bleary mom staggering into the nursery at 2 a.m. can tell her troubles to the
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. That trigger comes from a crisis in the nursery.
Newly hatched honeybee larvae need round-the-clock care, and they typically get it
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