Transportation physiology of honey bees

We studied whether long distance transportation affected honey bee physiology adversely. We compared bees that experienced transportation and those that did not by measuring several parameters. These parameters include juvenile hormone titer, protein levels in head or thorax, abdomen lipid amount and size of hypopharyngeal glands. The experiment was replicate over 2 years in three different trials. We found significant differences in many of these parameters, especially the size of food glands.