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How does a honeycomb work internally? scientists videotape it for the first time🐝
We all know that bees are amazing animals. it is our duty as human beings to take care of them so that our planet continues to function properly.
Now, surely you have seen some bees flying near the flowers to pollinate them, or they were just taking a walk near your home, but have you ever wondered what they do inside their combs?
Photo credits: Leandro Fregoni
📍Location: Córdoba, Argentina
A group of scientists allow us to see this information on video for the first time...
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A group of scientists from the Goethe University of Frankfurt in Germany record for the first time the inner workings of honey bees with high-resolution videos so as not to miss any detail.
The objective of the research
The biologist Paul Siefert and his researchers conducted this study to increase the literature and knowledge about these incredible beings, they want to sensitize the general public about the social processes in bee colonies and have made the rare images available to the public. In Internet.
Photo credits: Heather McKean
📍Location: Unknown
Pesticides and bees
In this research, one of the topics studied was the breeding of these bees, being affected by the use of a type of pesticides, they realized that the behavior of the nurse bees changed: they fed the larvae less frequently. The larvae needed up to 10 more hours to develop. A longer development time in the hive can favor infestation with bee pests such as the varroa mite.
Photo credits: Boris Smokrovic
📍Location: Unknown
Neonicotinoids are highly effective insecticides that have been and continue to be widely used in agriculture, although they have been banned in some countries. Neonicotinoids enter the bee colony through nectar and pollen collected by bees. These substances are already known to interfere, among other things, with the ability of bees to navigate and their learning behavior.
Breeding
Here, the work of the bees is very synchronized, their brood behavior very complex: a cleaner bee cleans an empty honeycomb (brood cell) of the remains of the previous brood before the queen bee lays an egg inside. Once the bee larva hatches, it is fed by a nurse bee for six days. The nurse bees then seal the brood cell with a lid made of wax.
Photo credits: Peter Lloyd
📍Location: Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY, USA
The larvae coils into a cocoon and undergoes metamorphosis, during which it transforms its body and develops a head, wings, and legs. Three weeks after laying eggs, the adult bee leaves the cocoon and leaves the brood cell, that is organization!
There are still some doubts to be clarified
In addition to pesticides (which have become clear to us have a negative impact on bees and their breeding), researchers wonder if the delay in larval development is also due to disturbance by caretaker bees.
Photo credits: Kai Wenzel
📍Location: Argentina
Of course, if we think about a baby whose parents suffer from parental care problems, we could think that that baby could suffer some delay in its development.
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