This strange donkey orchid uses UV light to trick bees into thinking it has food
If you've ever compared a frozen pizza to the photo on the box, you know the feeling of being duped by appetizing looks.
If you've ever compared a frozen pizza to the photo on the box, you know the feeling of being duped by appetizing looks.
Plants & Animals
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We know that bees are important to natural ecosystems and also to human agriculture and horticulture. They are great pollinators of so plant flowering plant species and are also a source of food and materials we have used ...
Ecology
Jan 27, 2023
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Researchers from the Victoria University of Wellington have demonstrated a link between invasive ant species and increased levels of diseases in bees.
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2023
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Social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees have larger foraging ranges, according to researchers at the University of Bristol.
Plants & Animals
Nov 17, 2022
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A new study by University of Maryland entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. When scientists modeled the effect ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2022
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"Where should we go for lunch today?" "I dunno. What sounds good?" "You pick this time."
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2022
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Bumble bees play, according to new research led by Queen Mary University of London published in Animal Behaviour. It is the first time that object play behavior has been shown in an insect, adding to mounting evidence that ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 27, 2022
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Researchers at CU Boulder have, for the first time, used X-ray computed tomography (also known as a CT scan) to peer inside swarms of honeybees.
Ecology
Oct 26, 2022
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Solitary bees that ingested the pesticide clothianidin when foraging from rapeseed flowers became slower. In addition, the strawberries pollinated by these bees were smaller. This is shown by a new study from Lund University ...
Ecology
Sep 15, 2022
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Rutgers University has conducted the first study showing how many more species of bees are needed to maintain crop yields when a longer-term time frame is considered.
Plants & Animals
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