Smithsonian scientists have discovered two new, closely related bee species: one from Coiba Island in Panama and another from northern Colombia. Both descended from of a group of stingless bees that originated in the Amazon ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 18, 2011
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Rice University evolutionary biologists David Queller and Joan Strassmann argue in a new paper that high cooperation and low conflict between components, from the genetic level on up, give a living thing its "organismality," ...
Evolution
Nov 9, 2009
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Researchers have found that honeybees in Europe are at significantly higher risk from an emerging viral variant, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2016
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Since the 1950s, "Africanized" honeybees have spread north and south across the Americas until apparently coming to a halt in California and northern Argentina. Now genome sequencing of hundreds of bees from the northern ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2020
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Honeybee historians might seem like a flight of fancy but these tiny pollinators have been helping researchers from the National Botanic Garden of Wales track how the UK's fields, hedgerows, wild spaces and gardens have changed ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 14, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Honeybees can learn to avoid nectar containing natural plant toxins but will eat it when there is no alternative, scientists at Newcastle University have found.
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2010
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Winter hit U.S. honeybees hard with the highest loss rate yet, an annual survey of beekeepers showed.
Ecology
Jun 19, 2019
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(Phys.org) -- An international research breakthrough with bees means machines might soon be able to see almost as well as humans.
Plants & Animals
May 14, 2012
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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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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ground-breaking discoveries by Michigan State University researchers could help protect honeybees from deadly parasites that have devastated commercial colonies.
Biochemistry
Dec 8, 2009
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