All Articles Tagged As: bees

Artificial Meadows And Robot Spiders Reveal Secret Life Of Bees (9/8/2008)

Ecologists have discovered that bumblebees can learn to outwit color-changing crab spiders. ...> Full Article

Smells like bees' spirit (8/14/2008)

Bumblebees choose whether to search for food according to how stocked their nests are ...> Full Article

Fungus Foot Baths Could Save Bees (7/30/2008)

One of the biggest world wide threats to honey bees, the varroa mite, could soon be about to meet its nemesis. ...> Full Article

A bee's future as queen or worker may rest with parasitic tropical fly (7/29/2008)

A tiny parasitic fly is affecting the social behavior of a nocturnal bee, helping to determine which individuals become queens and which become workers. ...> Full Article

Bees go 'off-color' when they are sickly (7/17/2008)

New study has important implications for understanding survival of bee colonies ...> Full Article

Wasps and Bumble Bees Heat Up, Fly Faster With Protein-Rich Food (7/12/2008)

Good pollen makes bees hot and wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat ...> Full Article

Bee disease a mystery (7/4/2008)

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. ...> Full Article

Newly Compiled Online Bee Checklist Allows Biologists To Link Important Information About All Bee Species (6/12/2008)

Researchers have identified nearly 19,500 bee species worldwide, about 2,000 more than previously estimated ...> Full Article

Honey bee dance breaks down cultural barrier (6/8/2008)

Asian and European honey bees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having evolved different forms of communication ...> Full Article

Ecologists tease out private lives of plants and their pollinators (5/7/2008)

Research explains the recent dramatic decline in certain bumblebee species found in the shrinking areas of species-rich chalk grasslands and hay meadows across Northern Europe ...> Full Article

Discovery explains how bees count (3/21/2008)

Researchers have discovered that our visual system can estimate number, just as it can guess size or speed. And they believe we see number in the same way we see colour and shape, and that other species, even bees, can do so too. ...> Full Article

Wildebeest or malaria parasite - same rules determine number of offspring (1/16/2008)

Wildebeest Whether you are dealing with the number of wildebeest on the Serengeti or the number of malaria parasites in the human body, new research shows the same ecological framework determines breeding numbers and population size. New research published today (15 January) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Fellow shows that the same community ecology principles that determine how different animal species on the savannah affect each other's population sizes through competition for food and hunting by predators also affect parasite species interacting within the microcosm of a single host. ...> Full Article

Bee buzz could scare away elephants (10/9/2007)

Strategically placed beehives might offer a natural elephant deterrent in areas where humans are encroaching on elephant ranges, according to Oxford University scientists. ...> Full Article