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The Varroa Mite Could Help Solve Australia’s Feral Honey Bee Problem
A tiny parasitic mite that lives on the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) has breached Australia’s border quarantine and been detected in managed
Tag : Bees
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How (Not) To Be A Bee
Did you know that bees in a hive have this thing called swarm mentality, or hive mind, which is this amazing sort of collective thought that
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Flowers Strips Bring All the Pollinators to the Yard
The longer I garden the more I gravitate towards creating habitats for creatures that rely on plants for survival. I’ve always been more interested
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Beekeeping in Africa
Bees are vital insects due to their role as pollinators. Researchers at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) found that
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Pollinators (not) on the menu at Kew
Recently Phil Stevenson and I advised on an art/science project called Minus Pollinators which considered what a small café menu might look like
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To Bee or Not to Bee: Fairy Lake Leisure Farm in Tainan
The term “colony collapse disorder” first appeared in 2006 to describe the sudden disappearance or death of large numbers of worker bees in
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Jessica Burrows: Hungry Bees-ness—Radiation exposure in contaminated landscapes such as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone increases bumblebee feeding and metabolism
In this new post, Jessica Burrows—a fourth year PhD student based at the University of Stirling, Scotland—discusses her new paper ‘Ecologically
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‘The Last Bee’ – Food For Thought
Image: Vecteezy There has been a lot of press coverage recently highlighting the plight of bees in the modern world. This poem by Brian Bilston may
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Texas Water Safari race on the San Marcos River
June 16, 2022 When it’s over 100F for days on end, the timing is excellent for a weekend getaway to a Central Texas river house. And when that
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Texas Water Safari race on the San Marcos River
June 16, 2022 When it’s over 100F for days on end, the timing is excellent for a weekend getaway to a Central Texas river house. And when that
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When concrete starts to bloom: how UK cities are getting greener
The UK is one of the most urbanised countries in the world, with a staggering 84% of us living in towns and cities. Since the industrial revolution,
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The Life of a Solitary Bee
Bee species’ behavior has fascinated humans for eternity. Throughout the world, we watch them buzzing from flower to flower, collecting pollen.
California Says Insects Can Be Protected as Endangered Species
Three great stories we found on the internet this week. Bee happy In a decision one advocate hailed as “a win for all imperiled invertebrates in
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Bumblebees are fish, California court rules
A California court ruled last week that a bumblebee is legally a fish, allowing it to be protected under the state’s endangered species
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Tracking trends in Neotropical pollinators: how good is our understanding and is more data always better?
In my recent book Pollinators & Pollination: Nature and Society I discussed the current state of our knowledge of how populations of pollinators