Unexpected Similarity Discovered Between Honey Bee and Human Social Life
Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they interact…
Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they interact…
There are over 20,000 species of bee, but accurate data about how these species are spread across the globe are sparse. However, researchers reporting in…
A new study has identified two Australian bees that have adapted their vision at night for the first time. Australian bees are known for pollinating…
For a honey bee, few things are more important than recognizing your nestmates. Being able to tell a nestmate from an invader could mean the…
If you want a dog to hunt something down, it helps to let them sniff an item to pick up the scent. Now, researchers reporting…
Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to tease out the relationship between genes and behavior. A new study of Africanized honey…
Beekeepers across the United States lost 43.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2019 to April 2020, according to preliminary results of the…
University of Missouri researchers discover wildflower’s spiny pollen adapts to help plants reproduce. Have pollen. Must travel. Over 80% of the world’s flowering plants must…
Facing a scarcity of pollen, bumblebees will nibble on the leaves of flowerless plants, causing intentional damage in such a way that accelerates the production…
Flowering strips – pollinator-friendly rows of plants that increase foraging habitat for bees – can help offset pollinator decline but may also bring risks of…
Researchers discover a gene in honey bees that causes virgin birth. In a study published on May 7, 2020, in Current Biology, researchers from University…
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli…
Pollination by bees is vital even when crops are assumed to be pollinator independent. That’s according to a study co-authored by Ethel Villalobos, a researcher…
Pesticides can impair brain growth in baby bumblebees, affecting their ability to perform a simple learning task as adults, according to a new study. Imperial…
University of Ottawa researchers develop technique to predict impact of climate change on species extinction risk. When you were young, were you the type of…
Bumblebees are the big lifters of the insect world, able to fly back to the hive with almost their own bodyweight in nectar on board….
Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Science that they have developed a new strategy to protect honey bees from…
Plants Benefit From More Bees, Especially Bumble Bees Flowering plants are better pollinated in urban than in rural areas. This has now been demonstrated experimentally…