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

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

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

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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Halictid bees' social behavior studied

Other Sciences /

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

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


Killer bees may increase food supplies for native bees

Killer bees may increase food supplies for native bees

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aggressive African bees were accidentally released in Brazil in 1957. As "killer bees" spread northward, David Roubik, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, began a 17-year study ...


Dr. Michael Gozin, Tel Aviv University

Evil-doers everywhere: Get a whiff of this

Chemistry /

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The food you eat, the drugs you take, your state of mind, and your gender -- all these make your sweat unique. Tel Aviv University chemists may turn this fact into a new crime-fighting tool that would make ...


Women's brains recognize, encode smell of male sexual sweat

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

A new Rice University study published in the Journal of Neuroscience found that socioemotional meanings, including sexual ones, are conveyed in human sweat.


Leaving mobile phones near to a bee hive was found to have a catastrophic effect

Mobile phone towers a threat to honey bees: study

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 9

The electromagnetic waves emitted by mobile phone towers and cellphones can pose a threat to honey bees, a study published in India has concluded.


Bees Throw Out Mites

Bees Throw Out Mites

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Honey bees are now fighting back aggressively against Varroa mites, thanks to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) efforts to develop bees with a genetic trait that allows them to more easily find the mites ...


Commercial bees spreading disease to wild pollinating bees

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created Jul 23, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 5

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 ...


A bee being rewarded

Insect world royalty shows they really count... up to four

Biology /

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research led by the head of visual neuroscience at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) has demonstrated honey bees are capable of routinely counting up to four.


Wild bees can be effective pollinators

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Over the past few years, honey bee keepers have experienced problems due to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which has hurt honey bee populations, causing some growers of fruits, nuts and vegetables to wonder how their crops ...


New study will make criminals sweat

New study will make criminals sweat

Chemistry /

created Sep 16, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The inventor of a revolutionary new forensic fingerprinting technique claims criminals who eat processed foods are more likely to be discovered by police through their fingerprint sweat corroding ...



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