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How the brain controls juvenile hormone, and how JH and the fat body's vitellogenin suppress each other to produce either a short-lived forager or a long-lived nurse or winter bee. Simplified: ecdysteroids and Vg feedback to the brain are omitted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a61d0647a9e593d7757ddc2/27d98078-abac-4058-b7c7-50013a444eb5/image2.png Blogs - CLIMATE CHANGE MAY BE PUTTING HONEY BEE COLONIES AT GREATER RISK OF WINTER FAILURE  - Make it stand out Fig 2. The last ten summers in south-east England averaged 1.2°C warmer than the ten before. Mean June–August air temperature, difference from the 1991–2020 average of 16.6°C, England SE and Central S, 2007–2026. Black lines show decade averages: 2007–16 −0.3°C; 2017–26 +1.0°C. Data: Met Office (2026). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a61d0647a9e593d7757ddc2/4f8ca296-8362-4271-ab83-439ce17d837e/image3.png Blogs - CLIMATE CHANGE MAY BE PUTTING HONEY BEE COLONIES AT GREATER RISK OF WINTER FAILURE  - Make it stand out Fig 3. The last ten summers in south-east England were about 20% drier than the ten before. June–August rainfall as a percentage of the 1991–2020 average of 170 mm, England SE and Central S, 2007–2026. Black lines show decade averages: 2007–16 112%; 2017–26 90%. Data: Met Office (2026). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a61d0647a9e593d7757ddc2/08f48e03-94b2-484a-bb4e-6b5919012c57/image4.png Blogs - CLIMATE CHANGE MAY BE PUTTING HONEY BEE COLONIES AT GREATER RISK OF WINTER FAILURE  - Make it stand out Fig 4. Winters in south-east England averaged 0.7°C milder in the last decade than the one before. Mean December–February air temperature, difference from the 1991–2020 average of 5.1°C, England SE and Central S, winters 2007–2026 (labelled by the year of January and February). Black lines show decade averages: 2007–16 0.0°C; 2017–26 +0.7°C. Data: Met Office (2026). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a61d0647a9e593d7757ddc2/00cae4d7-7928-4e0f-b404-742777f8503e/image5.png Blogs - CLIMATE CHANGE MAY BE PUTTING HONEY BEE COLONIES AT GREATER RISK OF WINTER FAILURE  - Make it stand out Fig 5. Winter rainfall in south-east England has swung widely, with no clear trend over 20 years. December–February rainfall as a percentage of the 1991–2020 average of 233 mm, England SE and Central S, winters 2007–2026. Black lines show decade averages: 2007–16 111%; 2017–26 109%. 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