CATCH THE BUZZ – Long Term Exposure to Common Pesticide Damages Honey Bee’s Ability to Fly.
By University of California – San Diego A honey bee (Apis mellifera) is harnessed for study on a flight mill in biology professor James…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Animals That Travel Between Multiple Destinations And Return To A Home Face The Travelling Salesman Problem.
LONDON — As bees gain foraging experience they continually refine both the order in which they visit flowers and the flight paths they take…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Nectar-Living Microbes Release Scents Or Volatile Compounds And Can Influence A Pollinator’s Foraging Preference
Kathy Keatley Garvey Above left: Honey bee heading toward lupine. Bees are drawn to the scent of blossoms but nectar-living microbes release scents…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Field experiments show how removing a pollinator species disrupts foraging patterns
Emory Health Sciences The absence of a single dominant bumblebee species from an ecosystem disrupts foraging patterns among a broad range of remaining pollinators…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey bee memories: Another piece of the Alzheimer’s puzzle?
A breakdown of memory processes in humans can lead to conditions such as Alzheimer’s and dementia. By looking at the simpler brain of a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey bee teenagers speed up the aging process of their elders. Get rid of the kids and you’ll live longer, at least in a bee hive.
In honey bee colonies, a single queen is laying eggs from which thousands of worker bees are born. At a young age, workers care…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bees use a variety of senses and memory of previous experiences when deciding where to forage for pollen, research suggests.
Elizabeth Nicholls Bees use a variety of senses and memory of previous experiences when deciding where to forage for pollen, research by the University…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Selfish Bumblebees are Not Prepared to Share
Queen Mary, University of London Well qualified bumblebees are not prepared to share their pollinating knowledge with less experienced bees, according to new research…
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