To Sting or not to Sting
UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ IMAGE: ALERTED HONEY BEE (APIS MELLIFERA) CREDIT: MORGANE NOUVIAN When do bees sting and how do they organise their collective defence behaviour…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bee Communication…Odor Chemicals
Honey bees rally to their queen via ‘game of telephone’ By: Nikk Ogasa “Buzz. Buzz. The queen is that way,” said one honey bee to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Secret Reproductive Lives of Honey Bees
Shedding light on the secret reproductive lives of honey bees North Carolina State University Image: NC State University Researcher Alison McAfee Prepares Queen Cells to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Honey Bees on New Years Eve are Disturbed
DOES ENHANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION DISTURB HONEYBEES’ BEHAVIOUR? OBSERVATIONS DURING NEW YEAR’S EVE 2019 Daniel Favre *1, Olle Johansson 2 *1 A.R.R.A., P.O. box 494,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Recent Evolution of Western Honey Bee
Good news for honey bees, according to 150-year-old museum specimens By: Casey McGrath, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution Bee specimens from the Natural History…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Climate Barrier to Spread of Africanized Bees
Genome sequencing shows climate barrier to spread of Africanized bees Since the 1950s, “Africanized” honeybees have spread north and south across the Americas until…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – ‘Murder’ Hornet Nest Discovered in Washington State
First ever ‘murder hornet’ nest in U.S. discovered in Washington State BLAINE, WA (KPTV) – The first ever Asian giant hornet nest has been…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Gentle Behavior in Puerto Rican Honey Bees
Colony-Level Genetics Predict Gentle Behavior in Puerto Rican Honey Bees BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA, July 6, 2020—Puerto Rico’s population of African-European hybrid honey bees (AHB)…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Microalgae Food for Honey Bees
ARS News Service A blue-green microalgae could provide a strong, sustainably produced artificial diet for honey bees. Microalgae Food for Honey Bees For media…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bee Swarm Season
Bee Swarms: Local Beekeepers Prepare for Season Christine Menges – chronicle2@countrymedia.net Paul Vincent and daughter in the process of capturing the first swarm of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees in Winter
What happens to honey bees during the winter? Insulated by snow, Routt County bees weather negative temperatures through the Yampa Valley winter A blanket…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Biodiversity Improves Crop Production, and, Trees for Bees Stems Climate Change.
Ecologists and biologists compared data of about 1,500 agricultural fields around the world: from corn fields in the American plains to oilseed rape fields…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ambitious Strategies to Combat Pests and Disease in Organic Agriculture.
Mesotunnels, like those pictured here, are composed of nylon mesh fabric suspended on hoops placed about 42 inches over the ground. The management technique…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Native Flies Could Replace Bees as Pollinators.
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development researcher David Cook, Agriculture and food minister Alannah MacTiernan and Hort Innovation Research and Development general manager…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Citrus Greening Bug Has Been Found In Nevada. Quarantines Are Going Up!
Asian Citrus Psyllid and Huanglongbing, or citrus greening. A tiny insect no bigger than a grain of rice may go unnoticed on your citrus…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Can Plants Tell Time, and, Robots May Be Pollinators Sooner Than You Think In North Dakota.
IMAGE: A crop field; and David Lyall, Paul Snyder and Kate Lyall Credit: Dr. Antony Dodd; University of Bristol Jenny Schlecht; Forum News Service Could…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Rachel Carson had it right the first time. These pesticides kill both the birds and the bees. It’s Silent Spring, Again
Bird populations in the United States and Canada have plunged 29% – almost three billion birds – since 1970, signaling a major ecological crisis….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Paleontologists Discover Very Early Nectar Collectors, and, Farmers to Collect Largest Federal Payments in 14 Years.
AKSON Russian Science Communication Association Buratina truncata, the new long-proboscid species of Paradoxosisyrinae from Burmese amber, and, MFP map Credit: Alexander Khramov A team…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – How Bees Live with Bacteria, and Bees Finding Food
University of Würzburg IMAGE: A solitary bee leaves an artificial nest. The individual breeding chambers are separated and each contains only one larva. This prevents…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Can Honey Bees Count? They Can Match A Character To A Quantity. So….
A team of scientists from RMIT University, Monash University and the University of Toulouse III has trained honeybees (Apis mellifera) to match a character…
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