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Bumblebees dive in to fill a void
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Native pollinators such as these fat, fuzzy bumblebees, once an overlooked sideshow in the insect world, are gaining widespread appreciation among everyone from backyard gardeners to big-time farmers. That's because European ...
Inbred bumblebees less successful
Jul 02, 2009 |
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Declining bumblebee populations are at greater risk of inbreeding, which can trigger a downward spiral of further decline. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have provided the first proof ...
Bees attracted by floral iridescence
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Plants and their pollinators are the focus of ground-breaking research by Dr Heather Whitney, recently appointed Lloyds Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences. Her latest work, carried ...
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Bumblebees make bee line for gardens
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Jul 23, 2007 |
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Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied ...
Bumblebee re-introduced to UK
Jun 13, 2009 |
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This month, a campaign was launched to re-introduce the short-haired bumblebee to the UK from New Zealand.
Caught in a trap: bumblebees vs. robotic crab spiders
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Sep 04, 2008 |
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Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
Smells like bees' spirit
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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Bumblebees choose whether to search for food according to how stocked their nests are, say scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
Bumblebees learn the sweet smell of foraging success
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Oct 24, 2008 |
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Bumblebees use flower scent to guide their nest-mates to good food sources, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.
Britain boosts bumblebee battle
Mar 22, 2006 |
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British farmers are being paid about $350 a year to help save bumblebees from extinction by planting a clover mixture at the edges of their fields.
Bumblebee flight 'triumph of power over finesse'
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered.
Bumblebee house warming -- It takes a village
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Jan 18, 2007 |
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All bumblebees always aren't as busy as, well, a bee. It all depends on what their job is.
Bee smart, bee healthy
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bumblebee colonies which are fast learners are also better able to fight off infection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Leicester.
Bumblebee See, Bumblebee Do
Sep 01, 2005 |
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Just as travelers figure out which restaurant is good by the numbers of cars in the parking lot, bumblebees decide which flowers to visit by seeing which ones already have bee visitors. Bumblebees that watched ...
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