Colonies fed with the enriched diet were more likely to continue rearing brood up to the end of the three-month period, whereas colonies on sterol-deficient diets ceased brood production after 90 days.
Uhh m not crazy right, that’s the same thing?
I’m with you, it’s confusing. But I think what it means is this:
The study ran for 90 days. Non-sterol bees had stopped doing bee sex by then. Sterol bees were doin it all the way up to the end of the 90 days - and then the study ended. We can therefore assume they wanted to continue having freaky beedsm sex for even longer.
I could begrudgingly accept that, if that’s what is it was
Gotta be AI bullshit. But I’m reading it as, group A never stopped while group B stopped breeding at the end of the period.
Why in hell is poorly written text “AI bullshit” now? An LLM would probably write that in a clearer way.
Were articles irreprehensibly written up to 3 years ago?
Fuckin old men of Restelo!
For me it’s because the study is dated August 2025. Everything after November 2022 is suspect.
Sterols. Lipids found in pollen. Specifically, yeast enriched with sterols.
Doing great work. Thanks.
And of course! Sterols! What I’ve been saying all along!
Well this story is the bee’s needs!
TL;DR: They found six sterols found in pollen could be produced from engineered yeast and increased brood production dramatically. The article talks about them as essential nutrients but is it possible they are signaling molecules affecting bee behavior?
Your second sentence is your own thoughts, not part of the tldr summary, right? I think you should make that separation clear (in Wikipedia terms, I’m flagging this as “original research”).
Yes, it was. I could add a paragraph break by editing.
But I won’t.
Sterols are steroids
True. Sterols are a subset of steroids. I guess my question was what is the important function of those sterols in promoting progeny production?
