Essay 2

Question 1

What does honey bee nutritional requirements rely on?

Answer 1

Role within the colony

Question 2

What was investigated?

Answer 2

The extent to which the dietary requirements of adult worker honeybees for essential amino acids are affected by behavioural caste using the geometric framework for nutrition

Question 3

Young queen less bees reduced lifespan on what?

Answer 3

Diets high in essential amino acids

Question 4

What are foragers required diet and what decreases their lifespan?

Answer 4

Diet high in carbohydrates (1:250) and have low survival when the diet was high in essential amino acids

Question 5

Workers exposed to ** lives longer on diets high in EAA, even when those diets contained 58 of their dietary requirements

Answer 5

Queen mamdibular hormone

Question 6

What does the data show?

Answer 6

The worker honeybees prioritise their intake of carbohydrates over dietary EAAs even when overeating EAAs to obtain suffice why carbohydrates results in a shorter lifespan