We all have different relationships with our mothers but daughter carpenter bees have a very unique one with theirs. Research shows that the mother slows the dwarf eldest daughter's development in an effort to force them to stay home! #BI6192 https://t.co/
Check out this interesting paper by Lawson et al (2016) looking at maternal manipulation in carpenter bees. Results found that parental manipulation occurs in order to reduce the options of some offspring to leave the nest and begin their own. #BI6192 http
Read how small carpenter bee mothers are able to adjust the physical appearance of their offspring, to increase the social status within the colony in this interesting paper! #BI6192 https://t.co/goOfRvHRZP
Maternal manipulation of pollen provisions affects worker production in a small carpenter bee https://t.co/PxlmR6N2zr BES
Mother bees manipulate food to turn their eldest daughter into a dwarf who feeds siblings @DocLaw21 https://t.co/sDGX3Ir4rh
Maternal manipulation of pollen provisions affects worker production in a small carpenter bee https://t.co/1y9E8kMnMP BES