Even if anabasine reduces
levels of infection in individual
bees, it may not improve the survival of
workers or the reproductive output of the colony.
We expected that Acks signals detected at 0 min (in
bee ball formation experiment) or in control
bees (in heat - exposure and IAA - exposure experiments) would reflect background
level neural activity and the neural activity in the
workers forming a
bee ball, heat - exposed or IAA - exposed
workers could be considerably increased.