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Japanese honeybees swarm huge hornet predator to kill it with heat
Japanese honeybees face a formidable foe in the Asian giant hornet, a fierce predator that can reach 40mm long or larger, but the bees have developed a novel defense mechanism: they create a "hot defensive bee ball," swarming ...
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Google, other Silicon Valley firms nurture app developers
They crowd the lobby of Google's Building 43 one evening a month, waiting to climb the wide stairway under a mock-up of the world's first private spacecraft, SpaceShipOne, prepared to delve deep into the Internet giant's ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Sex life may hold key to honeybee survival
The number and diversity of male partners a queen honeybee has could help to protect her children from disease, say University of Leeds scientists, who are investigating possible causes of the widespread increase ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Remembrance of tussles past: paper wasps show surprisingly strong memory for previous encounters
With brains less than a millionth the size of humans', paper wasps hardly seem like mental giants. But new research at the University of Michigan shows that these insects can remember individuals for at least a week, even ...
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Sep 22, 2008 |
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Giant honeybees use Mexican waves to repel predatory wasps
The phenomenon of "shimmering" in giant honeybees, in which hundreds—or even thousands—of individual honeybees flip their abdomens upwards within a split-second to produce a Mexican Wave-like pattern across the bee nest, ...
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Sep 10, 2008 |
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Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
Why do queen honeybees mate with dozens of males? Does their extreme promiscuity, perhaps, serve a purpose?
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Jul 20, 2007 |
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Deciphering the Mystery of Bee Flight
One of the most elusive questions in science has finally been answered: How do bees fly? Although the issue is not as profound as how the universe began or what kick-started life on earth, the physics of bee ...
Nov 30, 2005 |
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