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Researcher identifies 11 new sweat bee species

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a scientist discovers a new species, one of hardest tasks is naming it. A Cornell researcher faced this challenge many times over when he discovered 11 new U.S. sweat bee species (subgenus ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researcher finds new bee in downtown Toronto

A York University doctoral student who discovered a new species of bee on his way to the lab one morning has completed a study that examines 84 species of sweat bees in Canada. Nineteen of these species - including the one ...

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created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests

Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report researchers ...

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created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Bugs emerge to bug us, and a few pose health risks

(AP) -- It's that time of year when the bugs emerge to bug us.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Racing against the Orangutan clock

For the last 18 years, Cheryl Knott of Boston University has been racing the clock. While she researches orangutans in the rainforests of Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo, the numbers of this magnificent ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social bees have bigger brain area for learning, memory

Who's in charge? Who's got food? The brain region responsible for learning and memory is bigger in social bee queens who may have to address these questions than in solitary queens, report scientists at the ...

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created Mar 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inland ants prefer salty snacks to sweet

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ants prefer salty snacks to sugary ones, at least in inland areas that tend to be salt-poor, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

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created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Traditional Chinese exercises may increase efficacy of flu vaccine

Move on mosquitoes. Step aside sweat bees. Before long, another unwelcome, but predictable, pest will return: the dreaded, oft-spotted flu bug.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 13, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Professor on the scent of the world's smelliest flower

A University of Sussex biochemist will brave the stench of the world's smelliest - and largest - flower, the Titan arum, when he gives a series of public lectures about the plant's special heat-producing properties.

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created Feb 02, 2007 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Halictid bees' social behavior studied

Cornell University scientists say the social behavior of many species of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during a period of global warming.

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created Mar 13, 2006 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0


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