Dr. Glen Jeffery

You just give them a little bit of glucose because they have that and they go, and their blood glucose goes up.

We gave them red light or blue light.

We give them red light and their blood glucose does not go up as much.

We give them blue light and their blood glucose goes very high.

So they're using more of the energy.

Yeah.

In the red light condition.

In the red light condition.

In the blue light condition, we're slowing their mitochondria down.

And so there is more glucose flowing around.

I should say that...

Sampling the blood in a bee is a little bit difficult, but you basically pull off one of the antennae and you squeeze a bee and you get a little piece of... All the bee lovers out there.

But, you know, we went to the chemist and we bought just the standard blood glucose test that you can get for a few dollars.

We've got a result.

Therefore, it's worth moving forward.

Therefore, we got the ethical permission.

Therefore, we did the... I can't do the experiment on blue light.

I regard that as unethical.

Really?

Yeah.