Bee behaviour: what do bees do at home?
Cannibalism, according to close-up videos that show bee behaviour.
What goes on in the beehive? These videos, published in the journal PLOS ONE by Paul Siefert from Goethe-Universität,...
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Honeybees have unique personalities, like us
Being an individual is good for the whole.
Individuals shape a community and its collective patterns of behaviour – and not just in humans, it turns out.Sci...
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Flight of the sniffer bees
Honeybee scent training could make pollination more effective.
Honeybees continue to cause quite a buzz with their smarts. Previous studies have found that not only can they unders...
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Honeybee venom kills breast cancer cells
Research reveals impact on signalling pathways.
Venom from honeybees, but not bumblebees, has the potential to help fight breast cancer, new Australian research sugg...
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Helping keep track of bees
Exotic intruders can wreak havoc on our native species.
Bees get a lot of good press. They pollinate our crops and in some cases, make delicious honey. But bees around the w...
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Honeybees can surf to safety
On water their wings work like hydrofoils.
When a honeybee falls onto water it can essentially surf to safety, research engineers in the US have discovered.Wh...
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The bee-all of numbers
Honeybees are good at maths – if you ask the right question.
As we know, numbers can become very large very quickly. The diameter of the universe is about 8.8×1023 kilometres, an...
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Researchers identify a Babel Fish for bees
Project reveals a honeybee universal language.
Scientists have created a codex which grants researchers worldwide a universal understanding of the honeybee “waggle ...
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Honeybees can do maths
The insects understand both subtraction and addition.
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are capable of arithmetic, showing proficiency in addition and subtraction, new research r...
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Young, hive-bound bees confused by chemicals
Even bees that never leave the hive can be exposed.
Hive-bound young honey bees (Apis mellifera) are being poisoned by insecticide and weed killer gathered by their fora...
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The guts of a honeybee
The tiny intestines of the honeybee contain a world of even tinier life.
A scanning electron microscope image of a honeybee’s midgut. Credit: Åsmund AndersenThe guts of a honeybee are much...
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Giant honeybees shimmy in time to cool the hive
Researchers saw certain bees act as ‘fanners’.
The giant honeybee (Apis dorsata) is the largest honeybee species in the world. A new study suggests they work togeth...