13.05.2013                      04.Siwan. 5773                     Tag 48 des Omer

Umwelt & Forschung:

Juvenile hormone study to protect bee pollinators

Somewhere along the evolutionary history of these bees, juvenile hormone stopped doing one job, and started doing a different job.

The honey bee is very common, highly social and important to humanity because it makes honey and pollinates our food crops. Without this important bee, many people would go hungry. Young honey bee “workers” spend much of their time in the colony taking care of baby bees. Older bees work outside on jobs such as collecting food. In these worker honey bees, a substance called juvenile hormone is not involved in egg laying. Instead, it determines when the bees stop working inside and start working outside….