It seems you live longer if you’re born in a young bumblebee colony. Liliana's study is trying to find out whether this is due to intrinsic differences in quality or is it the social environment that influences this. #CEEC24

Using a transfer experiment Liliana and colleagues compared workers from young colonies to those from old colonies. This gave them the chance to decipher the individual and social influences on ageing in bees a little further. #CEEC24