Trained to pick the lowest number out of a series of options, a honeybee chooses a blank image, revealing an understanding of the concept of zero. Scientists have discovered honeybees can understand the concept of zero, putting them in an elite club of clever animals that can grasp the abstract mathematical notion of nothing. By […]
Africanized honeybees, commonly known as “killer bees,” are much more aggressive than their European counterparts. Now researchers have examined neuropeptide changes that take place in Africanized honeybees’ brains during aggressive behavior. The researchers, who report their results in the Journal of Proteome Research, also showed they could turn gentle bees into angry ones by injecting them […]
Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a discovery that expands our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power. Credit: RMIT University Researchers have found bees can do basic mathematics, in a discovery that expands our understanding of the relationship between brain size and brain power. Building on their finding […]
February 4, 2019, John Innes Centre Researchers have pioneered a new method which allows them to rapidly recruit disease resistance genes from wild plants and transfer them into domestic crops. The technique called AgRenSeq or speed cloning has been developed by John Innes Centre researchers alongside colleagues in the United States and Australia to speed up […]
February 4, 2019 by Misti Crane, It’s about time for the annual mass migration of honeybees to California, and new research is helping lower the chances the pollinators and their offspring will die while they’re visiting the West Coast. Each winter, professional beekeepers from around the nation stack hive upon hive on trucks destined for […]
BBVA Joint meeting with The Veterinary Invertebrate Society The reason for bringing the two societies together for the first time is to share our knowledge and identify common ground where the two organisations may benefit from each other. Prof Giles Budge from University of Newcastle has expertise in pathology, apiculture, molecular biology and crop protection. […]
This webinar by John Hill was provided via The Webinarvet in April 2018. The Asian Hornet, Vespa velutina, is a major predator of honeybees and other pollinators in the Far East including China, Malaysia and Japan . One queen was accidentally introduced to south west France in 2004. It has since rapidly spread all through […]
Lecture: Foulbrood: Past, Present and Future : Dr Giles Budge Followed by lectures from the lab run by Prof Geraldine Wright. The lab studies the behaviour, neurophysiology, and nutritional ecology of honeybees and bumblebees. Also studies how worker bees learn to identify floral traits like scent with nutrients they find in nectar & how bees […]
Why do we need to feed bees at all? the beekeeper takes his honey crop in late August, early September. Surely the bees have plenty of time to make up stores before clustering for the winter. Perhaps they will and perhaps they won’t. If they don’t they die so feeding is an insurance for their […]
The Asian hornet, also known as the yellow legged hornet, is native to Asia and was confirmed for the first time in Lot-et-Garonne in the South West of France in 2004. It was thought to have been imported in a consignment of pottery from China and it quickly established and spread to many regions of […]