News articles tagged with 'honeybee'
Study finds bees can learn differences in food's temperature
— 18 Nov 2009 11:45 | BiologyBiologists at UC San Diego have discovered that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability that may assist bees in locating the warm, sugar-rich nectar... — full story
Heat forms harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup
— 15 Oct 2009 08:44 | ChemistryResearchers have established the conditions that foster formation of potentially dangerous levels of a toxic substance in the high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) often fed to honey bees.... — full story
One million award to address honeybee decline
— 2 Oct 2009 08:36 | EnvironmentScientists at Rothamsted Research and Warwick University have been awarded GBP1M by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in partnership with Syngenta,... — full story
Giant honeybees use Mexican waves to repel predatory wasps
— 11 Sep 2008 22:50 | BiologyThe phenomenon of 'shimmering' in giant honeybees, in which hundreds - or even thousands - of individual honeybees flip their abdomens upwards within a split-second to produce a Mexican... — full story
Ecologists assess the impact of people on pollinators
— 4 Aug 2008 13:19 | EnvironmentMost of the world's plant species rely on animals to transfer their pollen to other plants. The undisputed queen of these animal pollinators is the bee, made up of about 30,000 species... — full story
New University of Sussex research lab a hive of industry
— 10 Jul 2008 16:21 | BiologyGood news for the hardworking honeybee and for beekeepers - the University of Sussex has installed the UK's only Professor of Apiculture. Professor Francis Ratnieks will head the newly-created... — full story
Honeybee dance breaks down cultural barrier
— 5 Jun 2008 18:10 | BiologyAsian and European honeybees can learn to understand one another's dance languages despite having evolved different forms of communication, an international research team has shown... — full story
Bees disease - one step closer to finding a cure
— 3 May 2008 18:03 | EnvironmentScientists in Germany have discovered a new mechanism of infection for the most fatal bee disease. American Foulbrood (AFB) is the only infectious disease which can kill entire colonies... — full story
Vanishing honeybee colonies continue to trouble Virginia
— 16 Mar 2008 12:04 | EnvironmentMore than 2,000 beekeepers in Virginia face the possibility of losing entire bee colonies to the Colony Collapse Disorder, but through Virginia Cooperative Extension, they have access... — full story
Worker or queen? Harvester ant moms set daughters' fates
— 16 Feb 2008 18:11 | BiologyWhen it comes to deciding what harvester ant daughters will be when they grow up, mother queens hold considerable sway, according to a new study published online on 14th February in... — full story