Bumble bees found in low-quality landscapes—characterized by a relative lack of spring flowers and quality nesting habitat—had higher levels of disease pathogens, as did bumble bees in areas with higher numbers of managed ...
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Dec 22, 2020
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The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn't just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role. However, placing honey bee or bumble bee colonies next to the field does not guarantee ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 21, 2020
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A team of researchers from the University of Sheffield and The Bumblebee Conservation Trust have been trialing new, low-cost ways to monitor bee species in the UK, by dressing bees in high visibility retroreflective vests. ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2020
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What's the best way to ward off giant hornets if you're a honeybee? Animal dung, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2020
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Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they interact socially have begun to be recognized in the last few years. Now, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 30, 2020
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In the arms race between prey and predator, sophisticated counter strategies evolve, such as signals that reduce the risks to predator and prey by deterring activities before lethal action is necessary.
Plants & Animals
Nov 24, 2020
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There are over 20,000 species of bee, but accurate data about how these species are spread across the globe are sparse. However, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on November 19 have created a map of bee ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 19, 2020
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Social insects like honeybees and hornets evolved from solitary bees and wasps, respectively. A common trait of many social insects is age-specific behavior: when they emerge from the pupa, workers typically specialize in ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2020
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Bees that ingest nonlethal levels of popular pesticides resembling nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, are losing sleep, according to new research from Vanderbilt University. That disruption of their circadian rhythm causes ...
Ecology
Nov 6, 2020
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Bee populations in the United States and worldwide are declining for a variety of reasons—habitat change, climate change, insecticide use, disease, urbanization and the introduction of non-native species.
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2020
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