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Starvation helps baby bees become stronger as adults
The stress of short-term nutritional deprivation as larvae actually makes honeybees -- critical to the world\'s food supply -- more resilient to starvation as adults, a new study has found. \"Surprisingly, we found that short-term starvation in the larval stage makes adult honey bees more adaptive to adult starvation.
New York: The stress of short-term nutritional deprivation as larvae actually makes honeybees -- critical to the world's food supply -- more resilient to starvation as adults, a new study has found. "Surprisingly, we found that short-term starvation in the larval stage makes adult honey bees more adaptive to adult starvation.
This suggests that they have an anticipatory mechanism like solitary organisms do," said Ying Wang, assistant research professor at Arizona State University in the US. The findings showed that when bees experienced starvation as larvae, they could reduce their metabolic rate, maintain their blood sugar levels and use other fuels faster than the control bees during starvation.
This increased the probability of their survival under a starvation situation.The anticipatory mechanism, also called "predictive adaptive response", explains a possible correlation between prenatal nutritional stress and adult metabolic disorders such as obesity and diabetes in humans.
The researchers, in the study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, found evidence of this mechanism in several areas such as behaviour, endocrine physiology, metabolism and gene regulation in the bees.
