Stricter controls over bumblebee imports to the UK are urgently required to prevent diseases spreading to native bumblebees and honeybees, scientists have warned. The call follows the discovery of parasites in over three-quarters ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 17, 2013
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A team of researchers with the University of London and Imperial College London has found through field experiments that bumblebee colonies tend to do better in urban environments than agricultural environments. In their ...
A new study of native bumblebee populations in southeastern Michigan cities found, surprisingly, that Detroit has more of the large-bodied bees than some surrounding, less urbanized locations.
Ecology
May 17, 2017
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Bumblebee colonies exposed to glyphosate are significantly affected in times of resource scarcity. Dr. Anja Weidenmüller, biologist at the Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz, ...
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Royal Holloway University of London and the University of Reading, both in the U.K., has found via field study that one type of pesticide exposure led to impaired pollination services ...
Solitary bees are twice as likely to pollinate the flowers they visit as their more sociable counterparts, according to a new study.
Plants & Animals
Jun 18, 2013
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Bees observe a strict working day, even in conditions of 24-hour sunlight. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology tagged worker bumblebees with a radio identifier, similar to an Oyster Card, which was ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Each grinning jack-o'-lantern starts with yellow pollen grains, ferried from a male to a female pumpkin flower by bees. Honeybee populations are in decline, but Cornell entomologist Brian Nault has identified ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2011
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(AP) -- A conservation group filed a petition Wednesday to add a bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the endangered species list.
Plants & Animals
Jun 23, 2010
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As a result of the climate crisis, global warming is driving up temperatures around the world—and bumblebees, like humans, are struggling to cope with homes that can't beat the heat.
Plants & Animals
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