Honeybees finding it harder to eat at America's bee hot spot
A new federal study finds bees are having a much harder time finding food in America's last honeybee refuge.
A new federal study finds bees are having a much harder time finding food in America's last honeybee refuge.
Ecology
Jul 2, 2018
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New research shows that honeybees prioritize the nutritional status of larvae when selecting for a new emergency queen.
Plants & Animals
Jun 8, 2018
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When honeybee colonies get larger, common sense suggests it would be noisier with more bees buzzing around.
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2018
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A new method to predict tipping points - the moment at which sudden change occurs in complex networked systems - may offer insights that prevent colony collapse disorder (CCD), a phenomenon in which the majority of worker ...
Ecology
Jan 10, 2018
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An unprecedented study integrating data from around the globe has shown that honey bees are the world's most important single species of pollinator in natural ecosystems and a key contributor to natural ecosystem functions. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 10, 2018
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Queens of stingless bee species (Meliponini) face a reproductive dilemma. If they mate with males with which they turn out to share the same sex determination gene, half of their offspring will consist of males, and the colony's ...
Biochemistry
Aug 30, 2017
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Some commercial beekeeping practices may harm honeybees more than help them, scientists warn in a paper published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2017
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A common pesticide used on crops compromises a queen bumblebee's ability to lay eggs, threatening her colony with extinction, according to a study released Monday.
Ecology
Aug 14, 2017
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Honey bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study. Genes most closely associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans ...
Evolution
Jul 31, 2017
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Worker and queen honeybees exposed to field realistic levels of neonicotinoids die sooner, reducing the health of the entire colony, a new study led by York University biologists has found.
Ecology
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