News articles tagged with 'colony'
Pheromone increases foraging honey bees, leads to healthier hives
— 12 Feb 2011 20:01 | BiologyThe application of a naturally occurring pheromone to honey bee test colonies increases colony growth resulting in stronger hives overall, according to a new study conducted by scientists…
Seeking social genes
— 2 Feb 2011 17:07 | BiologyIn order understand the evolution of complex societies, researchers are sequencing the genomes of social insects. The most recent data, published this week in the Early Edition of Proceedings…
Rhythmic vibrations guide caste development in social wasps
— 25 Jan 2011 18:59 | BiologyFuture queen or tireless toiler? A paper wasp's destiny may lie in the antennal drumbeats of its caretaker…
Workers hold key to power in nature's oldest societies
— 3 Nov 2010 11:08 | BiologyA new study analysing how complex, highly-evolved societies are organised in nature has found that it is workers that play a pivotal role in creating well-ordered societies where conflict…
Microbial hair: It's electric
— 12 Oct 2010 09:37 | BiologySome bacteria grow electrical hair that lets them link up in big biological circuits, according to a University of Southern California biophysicist and his collaborators…
Genome comparison of ants establishes new model species for molecular research
— 27 Aug 2010 10:52 | BiologyBy comparing two species of ants, Shelley Berger, PhD, the Daniel S. Och University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and colleagues Danny Reinberg, PhD, New York University,…
Ants found to use multiple antibiotics as weed killers
— 26 Aug 2010 20:19 | BiologyScientists at the University of East Anglia, have shown that fungus-farming ants are using multiple antibiotics as weed killers to maintain their fungus gardens…
Ant colonies shed light on metabolism
— 26 Aug 2010 19:22 | BiologyAnts are usually regarded as the unwanted guests at a picnic. But a recent study of California seed harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex californicus) examining their metabolic rate in relation…
Don't let your termites grow up to be mommies
— 9 Jul 2010 10:07 | BiologyA North Carolina State University entomologist has for the first time shown which specific chemicals are used by some termite queens to prevent other termites in the colony from becoming…
Discovery of controlled swarm in bacteria
— 23 Jun 2010 12:06 | HealthA study led by researchers from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) describes one of the mechanisms in which pathogenic bacteria populations control the way they spread over the…