CATCH THE BUZZ – Familiar Hover Flies May Be Transporting Honey Bee Diseases From Flower To Flower.
Bee diseases have been detected in hover flies for the first time. The brightly-colored flies may be picking up bee viruses as they forage…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Study Finds Parallels Between Unresponsive Honey Bees And Human Autism.
Socially unresponsive bees share something fundamental with autistic humans, new research finds. Credit: Julie McMahon – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Honey bees that…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Think Of Honey Bees As ‘Livestock,’ Not Wildlife, Argue Experts.
University of Cambridge These are Commercial Honeybee Hives in the Teide National Park, Tenerife, Spain. Credit: Alfredo Valido The ‘die-off’ events occurring in honey…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – War Dance of the Honey Bee.
By: Karl Gruber | February 1, 2018 , The Scientist Magazine The paper A. Fujiwara et al., “First report on the emergency dance of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Nonprofits, Industry, Universities Join Together in Recommendations to Keep Honey Bees Safe during Corn Planting.
The Corn Dust Research Consortium (CRDC) announced recommendations based on over three years of targeted research designed to keep honey bees safe during corn…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Where There’s Lead In The Environment, There’s Lead In Honey Bees. And That’s Not Good.
Alan Harman Researchers have used bees to monitor pollution for the first time in Australia and have found significant lead levels in the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Worldwide Importance of Honey Bees for Natural Habitats Honey Bees as World’s Key Pollinator of Non-Crop Plants – Maybe, Maybe Not. Read On….
Source Newsroom: University of California San Diego Credit: James Hung/UC San DiegoA honey bee pollinates a Carpobrotus edulis plant. The proportion of all floral…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Jersey Department of Agriculture Moves to Severely Restrict Bees and Beekeeping. Who’s Next?
By: Mark Di Ionno – The Star-Ledger Janet Katz is the President of the New Jersey Beekeepers Association, and like most beekeepers, must protect her hives…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Heat Patterns Serve As Signatures For Flowers To Passing Bees.
Heat plays an important role in flower-pollinator interactions. According to new research, heat patterns serve as signatures for flowers, advertising their availability to passing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – This Discovery Opens The Possibility Of Designing New Chemicals That Target Sodium Channels Of Pests But Spare Bees.
Researchers at Michigan State University’s entomology department have unlocked a key to maintain the insecticide’s effectiveness in eliminating pests without killing beneficial bugs, such…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Bees Are Dying. In Three Minutes, A UMD Student Can Tell You Why.
University of Maryland doctoral student Samuel Ramsey has conducted award-winning research on honey bees in Thailand. (Courtesy of John Consoli) By Noah Fortson Trekking through…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – It Isn’t Easy For Honey Bees To Stick Their Heads Into Jar-Shaped Blueberry Flowers.
DENVER — Honeybees may be the world’s most famous pollinator, but a new study shows that blueberry blooms reduce the insects to improvisational klutzes. Not…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Researcher Reports Key Components Of Honey Bee Antiviral Defense.
Laura Brutscher, who earned her doctorate at MSU in July, had her dissertation research published in the journal Scientific Reports in the same month….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Study Reveals Flower Color, Fragrance Coordination
Joe Schwartz This is true for many of the 41 insect-pollinated plant species growing in a Phrygana scrubland habitat on the Greek island of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Regulation Of Honey Bee Development By Plant Micrornas Shows An Evolutionary Adaptation For Colony Success Through Partnership Between Two Species.
Bee larvae develop into workers, in part, because their diet of pollen and honey – beebread – is rich in plant regulatory molecules called…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – I Visited A CSI Crime Lab, But For Bees
Lisa Cumming I recently had a chance to visit the National Bee Diagnostic Centre (NBDC) in the small town of Beaverlodge, Alberta, which is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Key To A More Accurate Camera In Phones, Drones And Robots May Lie In The Brain Of The Honey Bee.
Researchers from RMIT University, Monash University, the University of Melbourne and Deakin University have discovered a new mechanism in the bug’s brain for processing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Honeybees Pick Up ‘Astonishing’ Number Of Pesticides Via Non-Crop Plants
Purdue researchers found that honeybees collect pollen from a wide range of plants, even in areas dominated by corn and soybeans. Credit: Purdue University/Tom…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Human activity is a key driver in the spread of pathogens afflicting the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) says OZ researcher.
By Entomology Today The Varroa destructor mite (shown above attached to bee) is a widespread parasite of European honey bees (Apis mellifera). Poor management…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – How the Varroa Mite Co-Opts Honey Bee Behaviors to Its Own Advantage
by Entomology Today As the managed honey bee industry continues to grapple with significant annual colony losses, the Varroa destructor mite is emerging as the leading culprit….
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