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Frozen Bees
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Russ Litsinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Mar 2023 03:12:25 +0000
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> ... even a few minutes of freezing was not fatal.

Probably old hat to veteran bee researchers, but I was amazed to watch workers previously flash frozen in nitrogen go from a frosty clump of bees unceremoniously dumped en masse on the ground to individual bees flying off seemingly no less worse for wear 10-15 minutes later when too many bees were collected as a function of a USDA study I participated in. Eye opening to me.


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