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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold (www.sciencedaily.com)

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[-] adj16@lemmy.world 76 points 9 months ago

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.