Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up ... ago – suggest that the behavior is an ancestral trait. Bumble bees, but not yellowjackets, recruit fellow foragers to ...
... at the University of California, Davis, just returned from a scientific trip to southern Oregon and Northern California to see if he could find the critically imperiled Franklin`s bumble bee.
A recent study at Oregon State University has shown that native bumble bee species have high pollination and seed production levels in red clover. These findings offer promise for alternative crop ...
... checklist of bee names since 1896," says Ascher. "Most people know of honey bees and a few bumble bees, but we have documented that there are actually more species of bees than of birds and mammals ...
... feeling under the weather, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals. The behaviour of the bumbling bees is reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters published today (Wednesday ...
... , and to predict the extent and severity of such spread in the wild.
The researchers found that commercial bumble bees often carry a harmful and highly contagious pathogen, Crithidia bombi, and that ...
... . Scientists, plant breeders, and growers seek to understand flight patterns of honeybees, bumble bees, and other insect "pollinators" as a way to increase production and healthy produce. Although ...
Honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one to another in the same row of plants. The bees' flight paths affect their ability to ...
Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London are helping to perfect a technique used to catch serial killers, by testing it on bumblebees.
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Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered.
