Climate change is affecting ecosystems in many different ways. One of its consequences is increasingly longer and more intense periods of heat, which affect essential natural processes—such as pollination. A team of researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2024
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Bumblebees have a great capacity to navigate despite their small brain size. This is borne out of new research conducted at Lund University in Sweden. The research results can potentially benefit the development of navigation ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 14, 2024
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A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has discovered that plants benefit from a greater variety of interactions with pollinators and herbivores. Plants that are pollinated by insects and have to defend themselves ...
Evolution
Jun 19, 2024
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Wild bumblebees are capable of logical reasoning, new research by a University of Stirling psychologist has found. The pioneering study tasked bees with spontaneously finding corresponding sugar-coated strips of paper. The ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2024
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Pesticides threaten humans, wildlife and our environment. Food production must change.
Ecology
May 14, 2024
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A new study reveals that cooperation by bumblebees isn't simply a result of accumulated individual efforts. Rather, these miniature-brained creatures are not just hard-working pollinators, but also show signs of being master ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2024
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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
May 3, 2024
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Understanding how different species manage to coexist in the same community, especially when competing for similar resources, remains a fascinating puzzle in ecology.
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2024
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Bumblebees can surprisingly withstand days underwater, according to a study published Wednesday, suggesting they could withstand increased floods brought on by climate change that threaten their winter hibernation burrows.
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2024
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Bumblebees appear to be quite resistant to common pesticides. This is shown by a new study, the results of which have now been published by scientists from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in the journal Environment ...
Plants & Animals
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