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1,566 results for: Bees
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- Life
Average bear could be pretty smart
Computer tests of solitary species reveal animals’ ability to learn concepts.
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DNA tags may dictate bee behavior
Chemical alterations affect genetic activity but not the genes themselves.
- Math
Bumblebees navigate new turf without a map
The insects can quickly calculate the best route between flowers.
- Humans
Uncommitted newbies can foil forceful few
Decisions more democratic when individuals with no preset preference join a group.
- Life
Bee genes may drive them to adventure
Scouting behavior linked to certain molecules in insect brains.
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Pesticide-dosed bees lose future royalty, way home
Unusual field tests reveal how common insecticides, even at nonfatal doses, can erode colonies and threaten the future of bumblebees and honeybees.
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Highlights from the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Estrogen mimics may delay puberty and honeybees hurting from pesticides.
- Life
Daytime anesthesia gives bees jet lag
Honeybees, as stand-ins for surgery patients, show drug’s aftereffects as biorhythms get out sync.
- Life
Invasive mite worsens honeybee viruses
Once-obscure deformed wing virus swept to prominence in honeybee colonies in Hawaiian islands as invasive pest arrived.
- Plants
Cretaceous Corsages? Fossil in amber suggests antiquity of orchids
Orchids appeared on the scene about 80 million years ago, according to evidence from a bee that collected orchid pollen and got trapped in amber.
