The National Science Foundation (USA) will fund a collaborative research project to investigate how worker honey bees transition between behavioural states.  The project “A systems approach to brain and behavioral state in the honey bee” will be undertaken by Dr. Charles Whitfield’s (Principal Investigator) laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagin, and Dr. Amro Zayed (Co-Principal Investigator) at York University.  More information on the project can be found on NSF’s website.