An international research team has some good news for the struggling honeybee, and the millions of people who depend on them to pollinate crops and other plants.
Plants & Animals
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Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to tease out the relationship between genes and behavior. A new study of Africanized honey bees reveals, however, that the genetic inheritance of individual ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2020
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A study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego has found that the Africanized honey bee—an aggressive hybrid of the European honey bee—is continuing to expand its range northward since its introduction into Southern ...
Ecology
Sep 11, 2015
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In a new study published in the Journal of Apicultural Research, scientists have compared the ability of two strains of honey bees to defend themselves against the parasitic mite varroa by grooming the mites from their bodies.
Plants & Animals
Jun 14, 2016
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A genomic study of Puerto Rico's Africanized honey bees - which are more docile than other so-called "killer bees" - reveals that they retain most of the genetic traits of their African honey bee ancestors, but that a few ...
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Nov 16, 2017
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Aggressive African bees were accidentally released in Brazil in 1957. As "killer bees" spread northward, David Roubik, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, began a 17-year study that revealed that ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 1, 2009
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The recent confirmation of Africanized honey bees in Modesto — the first confirmed case north of Madera County — is "probably an isolated case, and there probably aren't any more Africanized honey bee colonies in ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 28, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In just a few years after Africanized honey bees were introduced to Brazil in 1956, the aggressive bees had dominated and ruined domestic hives throughout South and Central America. According to University ...
Ecology
Jan 26, 2010
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Recently discovered genetic knowledge of two nuisance western honey bee subspecies will help commercial and hobby beekeepers.
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Jan 19, 2022
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No need for big muscles or high-tech contraptions when it comes to protecting African plantations from elephants: a British biologist has discovered that buzzing bees will keep the beasts at bay.
Ecology
Nov 22, 2011
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