This is not the plot of a new Game of Thrones spinoff, but a common and violent reality in honey bee colonies. As with any ...
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When loyalty fades: Inside the secret uprisings against honey bee queens
The research team found that common viruses can damage a queen’s ovaries, reducing both her egg-laying rate and the ...
New research shows that viruses weaken honey bee queens, lowering pheromone signals and energy, causing workers to replace them.
Honey bee colonies have a surprising way of ensuring survival. When a queen bee weakens due to virus infection, her pheromone ...
Published recently in PNAS , the research team found that common viral infections shrink a queen's ovaries, reducing both her egg-laying capacity and her production of methyl oleate, a pheromone that ...
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