> > How is the krebs cycle in insects?

> What are you thinking?

> ... we find a group of four lost horses. We manage to catch them and they 
> smell to acetone. They were completely drank. I said loud, how come they 
> find alcohol to drink? and my wife explained me the krebs cycle and how 
> when starving you end up eating your fats for fuel, having as a by product 
> this acetone.

This what is known as ketosis.  It is a condition caused by lack of 
carbohydrate in the diet or starvation.  A similar condition can occur in 
diabetes.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketosis

How are you thinking this might apply with bees? 

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