It's sometimes reported that one in every three bites of food depends on bees. As is often the case when an easy to grasp notion spreads, there's a dose of truth and a dollop of exaggeration.
Plants & Animals
Aug 17, 2018
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A new class of pesticides positioned to replace neonicotinoids may be just as harmful to crop-pollinating bees, researchers cautioned Wednesday.
Ecology
Aug 15, 2018
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A quick look at the fossil record shows that no species lasts forever. On average, most species exist for around a million years, although some species persist for much longer. A new study published in Scientific Reports ...
Evolution
Aug 15, 2018
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Canada announced plans Wednesday to phase out two pesticides widely applied to canola, corn and soybean crops in this country and linked to bee and now also aquatic insect deaths.
Ecology
Aug 15, 2018
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The world's biggest colony of king penguins is found in the National Nature Reserve of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF). Using high-resolution satellite images, researchers from the Chizé Centre for Biological ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 31, 2018
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The planet's largest colony of king penguins has declined by nearly 90 percent in three decades, alarmed researchers said Monday.
Ecology
Jul 30, 2018
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Some civilizations build Gothic cathedrals, and some build huts.
Plants & Animals
Jul 30, 2018
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Army ant (Eciton) soldiers are bigger but do not have larger brains than other workers within the same colony that fulfill more complex tasks, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Zoology. A collaborative ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 12, 2018
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We humans will put up with a lot from our relatives. Yet most of us are less charitable with people outside of our family circle.
Evolution
Jul 12, 2018
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When honey bees need a new emergency queen, they forego the chance to promote members of their own worker subfamilies, opting instead to nurture larvae of "royal" subfamilies, according to a study published July 11 in the ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2018
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