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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Tom Avril

Honeybees are at risk, along with the crops they pollinate. These scientists think the solution lies in the insects’ brains

PHILADELPHIA — The honeybees looked perfectly healthy, buzzing about their boxy wooden hive on a warm autumn day in central Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Capaldi suspected otherwise.

Clad in a protective white suit and hat, the biologist reached out with a gloved hand to capture one of the insects in a small vial, then took it back to her Bucknell University laboratory to dissect its brain.

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