Solitary female bees inspect other nests for signs of danger before making decisions on where to build their own, a new London-based study suggests.
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2020
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Many species of North American bumble bees have seen significant declines in recent decades. Bumble bees are essential pollinators for both native and agricultural plants, and their ability to fly in colder temperatures make ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2020
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Despite being "neotropical-forest-loving creatures," some orchid bees are known to tolerate habitats disturbed by human activity. However, little did the research team of Paola Galgani-Barraza (Smithsonian Tropical Research ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2020
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Bees are pollinators of many wild and crop plants, but in many places their diversity and density is declining. A research team from the Universities of Göttingen, Sussex and Würzburg has now investigated the foraging behaviour ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 24, 2020
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Animal pollinators support the production of three-quarters of the world's food crops, and many flowers produce nectar to reward the pollinators. A new study using bumblebees has found that the sweetest nectar is not necessarily ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 21, 2020
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A male orchid bee zips around the rainforest, a flash of iridescent green against an equally emerald background. The bee stops at various flowers, fungi and dead trees, collecting fragrant particles and storing them in pockets ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2020
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Cat fights, mean girls, Queen Bees.
Social Sciences
Jan 10, 2020
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Honey bees are invaluable pollinators—cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 24, 2019
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The UK's first citizen science project focusing on solitary, ground-nesting bees has revealed that they nest in a far broader range of habitats than previously thought.
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2019
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New Curtin University research has found that polystyrene can serve as a nesting place for native bees, which are able to exploit the man-made material for their own benefit.
Plants & Animals
Dec 4, 2019
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