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What Is Killing America’s Bees and What Does It Mean for Us?
Pollinators are vanishing, and a silent spring could become a horrifying reality. So why won’t the EPA do more? By Alex Morris.
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Truck Hauling Bees Rolls Over on Oklahoma Highway
Photos from the scene show what is estimated to be millions of bees swarming and encasing emergency vehicles that responded to the scene
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Plants spike nectar with caffeine and give bees a buzz
The coffee shop may promise productivity and snacks, but only one thing gets you in the door: caffeine. It turns out that honeybees fall for the same trick – and when they do, they probably make less honey. We knew from a previous study that caffeine boosts bee memory, helping them quickly learn the scent linked to the caffeinated food. For providing that jolt, the plant may be rewarded when eager bees keep returning and end up spreading more pollen.
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Bees get addicted to caffeine, do a little dance
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Close-Up Photos of Insect Eyes from the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
An incredible gallery of macro photographs that show insect eyes in extraordinary detail and clarity.
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Nature: Honey bees have been widely used in agriculture for nearly 9,000 years
Today in Nature, an international research team has provided new evidence for the early exploitation of honey bees by ancient neolithic farmers. Using lipid residues from more than 6,400 pottery vessels the research team has traced the adoption and exploitation of honey bees in agriculture throughout the neolithic world over a period of thousands of years.
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How a swarm of honeybees cook a giant hornet alive
The little Japanese honeybee and the Japanese giant hornet are the David and Goliath of nature.
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New research reignites concerns that pesticides are harming bees
Bee colonies exposed to the pesticide seemed less active in pollinating apple trees. By Chelsea Harvey.
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Bees, Nature's 3D Printers
You will think differently about bees when you see what they can do if given the proper mold to work with!
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The EPA finally admitted that the world’s most popular pesticide kills bees—20 years too late
The agency says it may place new restrictions on the chemical by year’s end. By Tom Philpott.
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The Hadza, the Honeyguide Bird and the Persistent Problem of 'Naturefaking'
In the tree-strewn savannah of northern Tanzania, near the salty shores of Lake Eyasi, live some of the planet’s few remaining hunter-gatherers. Known as the Hadza, they live in Hadzaland, which stretches for about 4,000 square kilometers around the lake. No one is sure how long they’ve been there, but it could be since humans became human... By Cara Giaimo.
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Flowers tone down the iridescence of their petals and avoid confusing bees
Latest research shows that flowers’ iridescent petals, which may look plain to human eyes, are perfectly tailored to a bee’s-eye-view.
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Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says
Many pollinator species are facing extinction, including some 16 percent of vertebrates like birds and bats, according to the document. By John Schwartz.
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Optibee, and Other Buzzworthy Apps For Monitoring Your Beehive
After a century of just droning along, beekeeping is going high-tech. By Cara Giaimo.
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The Solitary Bees
Team Candiru
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Do Honeybees Feel? Scientists Are Entertaining the Idea
An Australian scientist and a philosopher propose that the structure of insect brains suggests they have the capacity for basic awareness. By James Gorman.
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12 New Bee-Supporting Plants to Plant this Year
There are new varieties of plants coming out every year that will appeal to bees. Here are 12 of the newest.
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I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In The World?’
Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages. By Dan Nosowitz. (June 23, 2016)
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This Vibrating Bumblebee Unlocks a Flower's Hidden Treasure
Most flowering plants are more than willing to spread their pollen around. But some flowers hold out for just the right partner. Bumblebees and other buzz pollinators know just how to handle these stubborn flowers. They vibrate the blooms, shaking them until they give up the nutritious pollen.
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Leading insecticide cuts bee sperm by almost 40%, study shows
Discovery provides possible explanation for increasing deaths of honeybees in recent years, according to scientists. By Damian Carrington.
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