I believe the federal IACUC rules only apply to vertebrates. So it is legal to allow bees to suffer due to negligent care standards and also legal to publish studies generated under such conditions. I suppose this goes back to the medieval mythology idea promoted by morons that lower life forms are incapable of feeling pain.
Dick
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