Ep. 7 - Watching Bees Sleep with Manuel Giannoni Guzman

Behind the Veil

English - October 19, 2021 01:48 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 54 ratings
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Bees rely on their sense of time to navigate and find food. Is there a chance that pesticides alter this sense of time? Manuel Giannoni Guzman is a postdoctoral scholar at Vanderbilt University. He and his team posed this question and designed an experiment to find out.

Read the full research paper published in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72041-3

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