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Citizen scientists help reveal bumblebee decline

The great British public has helped scientists uncover what looks like a substantial decline in one of the UK's most common bumblebees over the last 20 years.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists rediscover rarest US bumblebee

A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside recently rediscovered the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States, last seen in 1956, living in the White Mountains of south-central ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

A fecal diet keeps bumblebees healthy

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows that a diet of bumble feces at the start of a bumblebee’s adult life is essential for the protection agains ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Making a bee-line for the best rewards

Bumblebees use complex problem solving skills to minimise the energy they use when flying to collect food, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common eastern bumblebee can boost pumpkin yields

(PhysOrg.com) -- Each grinning jack-o'-lantern starts with yellow pollen grains, ferried from a male to a female pumpkin flower by bees. Honeybee populations are in decline, but Cornell entomologist Brian ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How bumblebees tackle the traveling salesman problem

It is a mathematical puzzle which has vexed academics and travelling salesmen alike, but new research from Queen Mary, University of London's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, reveals how bumblebees ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Wild pollinators contribute more than honeybees

Bumblebees, solitary bees and other wild pollinating insects are much more important for pollinating UK crops than previously thought, say researchers.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Bumblebee nest boxes don't work

Bumblebees, honeybees, butterflies and other pollinating insects are in decline worldwide. So what better way to help stem their decline than by installing a bumblebee nest box in your garden? The only trouble ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

British eight-year-olds publish study in top science journal

A group of British children aged between eight and 10 had their school project on bees published by the prestigious Royal Society in a world scientific first, the society said Wednesday.

Biology / Other

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Complex mathematical problem solved by bees

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bumblebees can find the solution to a complex mathematical problem which keeps computers busy for days.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Landing lights for bumblebees

Gardeners could help maintain bumblebee populations by growing plants with red flowers or flowers with stripes along the veins, according to field observations of the common snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, at the John Innes ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hummingbird rehab is a fast-paced labor of love

They're kidnapped by children or captured by cats. They're cut down by tree trimmers or toppled by winds. Some fly into walls or windows, while others see their parents injured in territorial feuds. For baby hummingbirds, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even the midnight sun won't convince bees to work nights

Bees observe a strict working day, even in conditions of 24-hour sunlight. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology tagged worker bumblebees with a radio identifier, similar to an Oyster ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 28, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Group seeks endangered listing for bumblebee

(AP) -- A conservation group filed a petition Wednesday to add a bumblebee from Southern Oregon and Northern California to the endangered species list.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

British bees tagged to assess pesticide brain damage

British bees will be fitted with radio tags to monitor their movements and see if they are damaged by pesticides, in one of several studies unveiled on Tuesday to probe a decline in pollinating insects.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2