Ecological benefits of part-night lighting revealed
Switching off street lights to save money and energy could have a positive knock-on effect on our nocturnal pollinators, according to new research.
Switching off street lights to save money and energy could have a positive knock-on effect on our nocturnal pollinators, according to new research.
Ecology
Jan 21, 2019
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Pesticides have been detected in flowers not targeted with the chemicals that could be an additional, underestimated threat to pollinators according to new findings by Trinity and DCU, published in the Science of the Total ...
Ecology
Apr 6, 2023
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Insects such as honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one flower to an adjacent cluster of flowers in the same row of plants. The bees' flight paths have ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 20, 2009
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(Phys.org)—Ancient dung from a cave in the South Island of New Zealand has revealed a previously unsuspected relationship between two of the country's most unusual threatened species.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2012
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Residents living in towns and cities can play a major role in ensuring insect pollinators survive and thrive around them, a team of international scientists has said.
Ecology
Sep 30, 2016
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A multinational team of researchers has identified countries where agriculture's increasing dependence on pollination, coupled with a lack of crop diversity, may threaten food security and economic stability. The study, which ...
Ecology
Jul 11, 2019
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the 2010 Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) Progress Report highlighting current research on this still mysterious disease affecting the nation's honey bees.
Ecology
Dec 20, 2010
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Australasia has likely overlooked a pollination crisis, according to new research published today in the journal Ecology and Evolution. The research, led by Macquarie University, also underscores a pressing need for intervention ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2023
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Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle, Darwinylus marcosi, died in a sticky gob of tree sap some 105 million years ago in what is now northern Spain. As it thrashed about before drowning, ...
Archaeology
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists in New Zealand has found the local disappearance of pollinating birds over a hundred years ago is having a detrimental effect on the species they pollinated.