As my christmas present I am happily reading the links out this first one
sendt by Medhat about Vitellogenin in wikipedia.

I am stuck on one line of reasoning, that is considering CO2 as a potencial
trigger of this flow of vitellogenin in the bees bodies and the precencia of
Juvenile Hormone in the hive environment.

DO bees arrive to a state of CO2 narcosis when in the cluster?

Assuming that the answer is yes, what it would trigger? Could it be a
trigger for ovario development (queen and workers) and how will this
influence the start-stop-diapause-start-stop cycles of the hive?.

Could the "R" have different thresholds, settings with respect to CO2 levels
or time of narcosis?

The best part of this christmas present will be your answers (first one just
came from Randy; 6% that will kill a human!)

Merry Christmas to all of you around the world!!!

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Juanse Barros J.
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