Native bees also facing novel pandemic
Move over, murder hornets. There's a new bee killer in town.
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Bumblebee habitats and diets change over their lifecycle
Bumblebees change their home ranges and dietary preferences after establishing nests, suggesting that diversified landscapes help support bee populations as their needs change during different phases of their lifecycle, according ...
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Jul 8, 2020
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Group genomics drive aggression in honey bees
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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European ancestry plays role in 'killer' honey bees' aggressiveness
What causes African hybrid honey bees (AHB), also known as killer bees, to be highly defensive and aggressive? York University researchers have found it was the mixing of African and European genetics that led to hyper-aggression ...
Evolution
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Checklist of Pa. bees documents 49 new species and some that may be endangered
A study documenting bees that are reported to occur in Pennsylvania has found the presence of 437 species, including 49 never before recorded in the state. Researchers said the resulting checklist of bees in the commonwealth ...
Ecology
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What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded
Exotic Bee ID, a website created through a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Utah State University ...
Ecology
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US beekeepers reported lower winter losses but abnormally high summer losses
Beekeepers across the United States lost 43.7% of their managed honey bee colonies from April 2019 to April 2020, according to preliminary results of the 14th annual nationwide survey conducted by the nonprofit Bee Informed ...
Ecology
Jun 22, 2020
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Helping honey bees make it through winter with early cold storage
Putting honey bees into early indoor cold storage in October rather than November increases their chances of surviving the winter and the colonies emerge readier to pollinate almonds, according to a new Agricultural Research ...
Ecology
Jun 22, 2020
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Predicting honeybee swarming by listening to the sounds made by a queen bee
A team of researchers from Nottingham Trent University, l'Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture and Centre Apicole de Recherche et d'Information reports accurately predicting honeybee swarming by listening to sounds ...
Researchers must 'bee' sweep netting to learn more about native bees
Novel research into native bee populations by Curtin University provides a best practice recommendation on how to accurately monitor these important insects, with the aim of monitoring and saving bee species from emerging ...
Ecology
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