Brooding bees lose sleep for their young

Brooding bees lose sleep for their young

A bumblebee queen and workers caring for a brood. Credit: Rachel Rosen

It’s not only human mums who give up precious sleep to care for their newborns. Nursing bees also sacrifice sleep to look after their young – and even offspring that aren’t their own.

That’s one intriguing finding by Guy Bloch’s team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Published by Cosmos.

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