Published on Feb 29, 2016
The backstory
Discoveries in science can come from unexpected sourcesI became a scientist because my undergraduate mentor allowed me the opportunity to make my own discoveries. While a young student at Swarthmo...
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Published on Feb 25, 2016
Spring is coming...and so are the bees!
It's that time of year when we start to think about our field season. We maintain a group of colonies here at Indiana University, up on Bayles Road. This is the site of the IU Research and Teachi...
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Thanks so much Kathy! It means a lot to us
Mar 22, 2016
E pluribus unum: how honey bee bacteria coordinate behaviors
View commentThanks for the question! Bees are surprisingly manageable in this sense. We are buying a new queen and will take 1/2 the workers (frames) from the one colony and put them in a new hive box with the new queen. Over a period of a few days, her pheromones allow her to communicate with these workers and integrate them into the new colony. As she starts laying her own eggs, then the worker population, over a few weeks, shifts and becomes her genetic background.
Mar 10, 2016
E pluribus unum: how honey bee bacteria coordinate behaviors
View commentHey Christina - thanks for your support! You can actually find these bacteria all over the hive environment. We are particularly interested in what they are doing when found together - be that within the gut, inside the honey, or on the frames.
Feb 25, 2016
E pluribus unum: how honey bee bacteria coordinate behaviors
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