Observed growth of honey bee larva in the 24 well plates and they don't appear to have grown in size from the day before... nor have they eaten any of the 10uL of BAD. It could be they have stalled their growth, or they are simply dead. Maybe it was a lack of oxygen flow or humidity levels weren't ideal. I did not add any more BAD too the larva today and will continue to monitor their progress. I will try to find another chamber to incubate and humidify the larva instead of the anaerobic chamber.
I will try to recover more larva from the USDA hives and incubate them in Van Es in the near future as well. I need to figure out what is stalling/killing the larva in my incubator set up ASAP!
//EWW
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