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6. Honey bee的fungal 新题 Ingestion of food containing spores of the pathogen Ascosphaera apis causes a fatal fungal disease known as chalk brood in honeybee larvae. However, larvae must be chilled to about 30C for the disease to develop. Accordingly, chalk brood is most common in spring and in small colonies. A recent study revealed that honeybees responsible for hive-temperature maintenance purposely raised the hives temperature when colonies were inoculated with A.apis this fever, or up-regulation of temperature, occurred before any larvae died, suggesting that the response is preventative and that either honeybee workers detect the infection before symptoms are visible or larvae communicate the ingestion of the pathogen. Temperature returned to normal by the end of the study, suggesting that increased temperature is not optimal when broods are not infected, as well as that the fever does not result merely from normal colony growth . 6.1. The primary purpose of the passage is to discuss the findings and implications of a particular study illustrate a process that formerly had been misunderstood outline the methods used to investigate a problem provide evidence to support a controversial theory contrast alternative interpretations of certain date 6.2. According to the passage, researchers concluded that fever in honeybee coloniesis preventative because their study showed that such fever | 
