scout

Characterization of Genomic Variants Associated with Scout and Recruit Behavioral Castes in Honey Bees Using Whole-Genome Sequencing Among forager honey bees, scouts seek new resources and return to the colony, enlisting recruits to collect these resources. Differentially expressed genes between...

I, like several people caught a swarm on Memorial Day. I'm glad we have some patriotic bees! :) Anyway, I took the swarm trap down and replaced it with an empty trap. I took the swarm home and have them set up and they are doing great. I returned to the trap site a few days later and saw several...

Despite the lack of National support, I decided this was too important an issue to let them deny us..... I decided I would run a merit badge project, even if we cannot award the badge..... I approached our scouting leaders, and got their support to run the project, I also became an assistant...