It is no secret that social isolation has major developmental consequences on humans, but what about other social creatures like bumblebees? Neuroscientist Z Yan Wang investigated how social isolation impacted young bumblebees, and it looks like they grow up to be a little ‘socially awkward.’ Dr. Wang joins Lab Notes to talk about one of her favorite social insects.
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08/24/22 • 21 min
Lab Notes - Bees suffer from social isolation too
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Yan Wang
In the typical lifespan or lifecycle of a bumblebee, the queen in the spring emerges out of the ground. She has just been undergone a process called diapause. She emerges from the ground as it gets warmer and she finds a nice safe place to establish her nest and oftentimes, those are abandoned rodent holes or piles of hay or, you know, other kinds of nooks. And the Queen then lays her first, her first couple brews so her first daughters. As the season progresses, t
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