Honey bee colonies experience abiotic and biotic stress. My lab works on two recently identified behaviors performed in response to stress in the honey bee: the production of a behavioral fever and the presence of heat-shielders. Honey bees up-regulate brood-comb temperature in response to infestation with the heat sensitive pathogen, Ascosphaera apis. This fever is preventative as A. apis (the agent which causes the fungal disease commonly called 'chalk brood') is unable to significantly develop in experimental honey bee colonies. Heat-shielding is a behavior performed by worker bees: workers clump on the internal location of an externally heated region of the hive. This behavior inhibits the transfer of heat from outside to inside the hive and is thus an additional method of maintaining constant hive temperature. My lab is currently exploring the influence of genetic diversity on a hive's ability to mount appropriate stress responses.