In message <[log in to unmask]>, CharlesW
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>Individual bees "sleep" or at least are dormant in some manner for periods
>of time. But, the colony as a whole never sleeps. There is always activity.
>They have to keep working ... they have literally thousands of babies to
>take care of ... no time to sleep!
In studies showing bees' intermittent inactivity for a total of about 8
hours per day (interesting coincidence) the bees' internal activity is
AFAIK not monitored. Since wax making and brood food generation goes on
between feeding on honey/pollen it seems reasonable to suppose that
stillness may well mean glands working hard to produce said results. So,
stillness may well not mean sleeping as we know it.
--
James Kilty