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Re: Do bees sleep?
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Mike Rossander <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 7 May 2013 13:12:48 -0700
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Yes.  See, for example, “Differences in the sleep architecture of forager and young honeybees (Apis mellifera)", Journal of Experimental Biology (2008), Eban-Rothschild and Bloch
 
Not only do the sleep but they sleep differently based on age.  Nurse bees and other young bees tend to sleep chaotically, sleeping sometimes in day and sometimes at night and for variable periods.  Once workers start foraging, they adopt a more regular diurnal pattern.  Regardless, they spend about one-third of the day resting.
 
Mike Rossander

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