News tagged with bumble bees
Penn State researchers promote pollinator-friendly native gardens
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the country, pollinators such as honeybees and hummingbirds are declining due to habitat loss, diseases such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), pests and excessive pesticide use. Penn ...
Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees
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Jul 23, 2008 |
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Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by insects. However, pollinating bees are suffering widespread declines in North America and scientists ...
Wasps and bumble bees heat up, fly faster with protein-rich food
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Jul 11, 2008 |
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Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown.
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Oldest known spider's web found in amber
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Pieces of amber containing parts of a spider's web have been found in East Sussex and dated back to the Cretaceous period 140 million years ago, which makes it the oldest spider's web known.
Scientists examine how common pesticide mixes may affect bee die-offs
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Since reports of widespread bee die-offs began to surface in October 2006, researchers have investigated possible reasons ranging from hive-infecting mites to cell phone-tower radiation. They have yet to ...
Scientists discover gene that 'cancer-proofs' rodent's cells
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite a 30-year lifespan that gives ample time for cells to grow cancerous, a small rodent species called a naked mole rat has never been found with tumors of any kind—and now biologists ...
ASU scientists' research on honey bees featured in 'Science'
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two Arizona State University researchers, Robert Page and Gro Amdam, are the subject of a feature article in the Oct. 25 issue of the journal Science, which traces their collaboration, discov ...
Invisible immigrants: Research sheds light on foreign-born seniors in the U.S
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The nearly 80,000 immigrants older than 65 who arrive in the U.S. each year are often overlooked by society because they don't hold paid jobs or speak fluent English, says UC Irvine sociology ...
Heat forms potentially harmful substance in high-fructose corn syrup
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Researchers 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. Their study, which appears ...
Physicist gets buzz from better bee behaviour model
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A physicist at the University of Manchester has paved the way for better research into how honey bees choose where to live.
Nanometric butterfly wings created
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 08, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, ...
Edge detection crucial to eyesight
Oct 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a major advance in understanding how our eyesight works, Australian scientists have shown that birds' amazing flight and landing precision relies on their ability to detect edges.
Homebound Termites Answer 150-Year-Old Evolution Question
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Staying at home may have given the very first termite youngsters the best opportunity to rule the colony when their parents were killed by their neighbors. This is according to new research ...
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