A dog is to help researchers studying the decline of the bumblebee by sniffing out the insects in the wild.
... least in terms of prey capture rates. Spider camouflage didn't increase the chances of a bumblebee being captured, or reduce the rate at which the bees learnt to avoid predators. But our results did ...
Japan's Nissan Motor Co. has tapped into an unlikely source of inspiration for technology to prevent car crashes -- bumblebees.
LONDON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Bumblebees are able to sniff out the flowers with the most pollen and then spread the word to other bees in their hive, researchers in England have found.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brute force rather than aerodynamic efficiency is the key to bumblebee flight, Oxford University scientists have discovered.
May 8: Researchers at Oxford University use high-speed cameras to study how bumblebees stay airborne despite having relatively large bodies compared to their small wings. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown ...
Scientists have taken a close look at the way bumblebees fly, and the video footage isn't pretty.
... when they are transported on planes in cool boxes,
according to Natural England.The short-haired bumblebee became
extinct in this country in 2000, but the populations on the other
side of the world ...
... who sought to investigate the effects of a generation of these diploid males on the fitness of bumblebee colonies. She said, "The study of genetic diversity and inbreeding in bumblebees is currently ...
Declining bumblebee populations are at greater risk of inbreeding, which can trigger a downward spiral of further decline. Researchers have provided the first proof that inbreeding reduces colony ...
Native pollinators such as these fat, fuzzy bumblebees, once an overlooked sideshow in the insect world, are gaining widespread appreciation among everyone from backyard gardeners to big-time farmers. ...
... time bees
have been reintroduced to any country after the indigenous
population died out.
Bumblebees and honeybees have been in decline nationwide in recent
years. Bumblebees have suffered a dramatic ...
The bumblebee and other native wild bees are all the more important in the garden now that the population of honeybees is in such decline.
... their pollen than plant species that do not have to rely on insect pollinators. They also discovered that bumblebees prefer to visit plants with the most protein-rich pollen. According to the lead ...
Bumblebees may be showing an increasingly common behaviour of feeding on secretions from aphids.
