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Important role of wild insects with agriculture
Scientists studying data from 600 fields in 20 countries have found that nourished honey bees are not successful in pollinating crops with wild insects, mostly species.…
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Honey bees forget their way to the nest because of pesticides
Honey bees play an important role in agricultural production. For example, experts estimate honey bees produce £ 200 million for the UK economy each year.
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Honey bees can enjoy pictures
Honey bees are not only able to remember flowers, but they can also distinguish paintings.
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Blue honey
Some bees in a region in northeastern France produce green bile because they eat sugar containing colored products.
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Bee cuckoo
Scientists have discovered that new bees with unique biological behavior are invading the nest of other bees to lay eggs. This behavior is only seen in the cuckoo, so th…
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Bee zombies appeared in America
In Washington state (USA) is a strange phenomenon: many bees in the nest have died or staggered and plunged to the ground.
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He knows to heal himself
Research author Michel Simone-Finstrom, University of North Carolina (USA) said: When the beehive appears fungal pathogens and some individuals have been infected, worke…
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Honey bees help find ways to recover a comatose patient
According to New Zealand scientists' findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (NASP), honey bees can be a clue for scientists to find t…
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Discovering bees 'licking sweat to live'
American experts have discovered a new species of bees that feed in a very unusual way in New York City: licking sweat people to live. A new bee is in the city with the…
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Living 'loose' to avoid extinction?
The latest study by entomologists shows that the secret of big beehives is that their queen is not faithful, 'life in life' with a single mate. The more the queen bee ha…
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Herds of bees are ready to suppress opponents aggressively
How do flock animals reach consensus in decisions? The first experiments show that the mechanism to accept decisions is complex and not the majority always prevails.
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Parasitic flies turn bees into zombies
In addition to the threat of poisonous viruses and fungi, North American honey bees also met the crystal carving that turned them into flying corpses.
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Warriors of Jatai bees
Researchers at the University of Sussex, England discovered in colonies Jatai bees with soldier bees. This is the first study of soldier bees published in PNAS.
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Use bees to chase elephants
When studying African elephants, zoologists have found a way to prevent these giant animals from attacking forested villages and destroying crops. It is the honeycomb fe…
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Class in the honey bee society
In honey bee society, a few larvae are chosen as queen bees and the majority of them are worker bees, that is the study just published in the Journal of Proteome Researc…