Observed the remaining surviving honey bee larva under dissection microscopy. None of them appear to have eaten any of the BAD food provided to them, nor have they appear to have grown in size. Additionally, they don't appear to move at all when view via microscopy. This likely indicates they are all dead, and is also likely they were dead yesterday.
The 24 well plate will be continued to be incubated at 35C and the larva will be monitored in case I have mistakenly declared them dead. The larva was not fed any additional BAD today.
In the future, I will likely transfer the larva directly to the 24/48 well plate at the USDA onto BAD and then transfer them to the NDSU Van Es Lab.
//EWW
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