Evidence for global bee population declines has catalyzed a rapidly evolving area of
research that aims to identify the causal factors and to effectively assess the status of …

As in all advanced insect societies, colony-organization in honey bees emerges through a
structured division of labor between essentially sterile helpers called workers. Worker bees …

Positive social contact is an important factor in healthy aging, but our understanding of how
social interactions influence senescence is incomplete. As life expectancy continues to …

Honeybees Apis mellifera and other pollinating insects suffer from pesticides in agricultural
landscapes. Flupyradifurone is the active ingredient of a novel pesticide by the name of …

The life-prolonging effects of antioxidants have long entered popular culture, but the
scientific community still debates whether free radicals and the resulting oxidative stress …

Flying honey bees have among the highest mass-specific metabolic rates ever measured,
suggesting that their flight muscles may experience high levels of oxidative stress during …

Summary 1 Commonly held views assume that ageing, or senescence, represents an
inevitable, passive, and random decline in function that is strongly linked to chronological …

Aging is associated with cognitive impairment in numerous animal species. Across taxa,
decline in learning performance is linked to chronological age. The honey bee (Apis …

Frequent and highly aerobic behaviors likely contribute to naturally occurring stress,
accelerate senescence and limit lifespan. To understand how the physiological and cellular …

Senescence, defined as an age-specific decrease in physiological performance
accompanied by an increase in mortality rate, has been studied in a wide range of animals …