Fig. 4.

Verbal model for effects of diet, social factors and juvenile hormone on nutritional physiology and behavioral maturation in honey bees. (A) Previous understanding of the relationships between diet and nutritional physiology and between social factors and nutritional physiology (modified from Ament et al., 2011a). (B) New model, which proposes weaker role for diet, stronger role for social factors and a possible interaction between PI and JH signalling in the corpora allata. Social, pheromonal cues; JH, juvenile hormone; PI, pars intercerebralis.