AUGUST 25, 2021 Protecting gardens and crops from insects using the ‘smell of fear’ by American Chemical Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For home gardeners and farmers, herbivorous insects present a major threat to their hard work and crop yields. The predator insects that feed on these bugs emit odors that pests can sense, which changes […]
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Threats to an ecosystem service: multifactorial pressures on insect pollinators.
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Neonicotinoids, bee disorders and the sustainability of pollinator services
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Honeybee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides
Honeybee lives shortened after exposure to two widely used pesticides by Oregon State University One cage from each of the three experimental groups in an Oregon State University honeybee study. The control cage on the far left has more live bees than the cages in which the bees were exposed to Sivanto (middle) and Transform (far […]
Microclimate Temperatures impact nesting preference in Megachile rotundata (Solitary bee)
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Scientists discover bees understand the concept of zero
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 […]
Bees have brains for basic math, study finds
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 […]
Asian Hornet: A major threat to honeybees and pollinators in the UK
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 […]
Feeding Bees in Winter
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 […]
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