A common insecticide that is a major hazard for honeybees is now effectively detected in honey thanks to a simple new method.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 24, 2020
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Five million years ago, dangerous carnivores—such as giant wolverines and otters, bears, sabertooth cats, and large hyaenids—prowled the West Coast of South Africa. Today we can confirm that, among them, fearlessly roamed ...
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2020
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), nine of the world's 10 most polluted cities are in India. Yet, researchers have almost no idea how air pollution is affecting non-human organisms. In some of the first research ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2020
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Science has validated Indigenous wisdom by identifying a rare, healthy sugar in native stingless bee honey that is not found in any other food.
Plants & Animals
Jul 22, 2020
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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
Jul 6, 2020
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Honey bee colonies from across the UK are increasingly suffering from a viral disease, a new study has shown.
Ecology
May 1, 2020
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Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Science that they have developed a new strategy to protect honey bees from a deadly trend known as colony collapse: genetically engineered strains of ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2020
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Honey bees are invaluable pollinators—cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar is ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 24, 2019
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The diversity and availability of pollen foraged by honey bees across urban and suburban areas in the US varies drastically with the seasons, according to a study published June 12, 2019 in PLOS ONE by Juliana Rangel from ...
Ecology
Jun 12, 2019
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Researchers have discovered that honey bees are able to share immunity with other bees and to their offspring in a hive by transmitting RNA 'vaccines' through royal jelly and worker jelly. The jelly is the bee equivalent ...
Ecology
May 2, 2019
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