... 36.1 percent of their honey bee colonies, up about 13.5 percent from the previous winter. ... -third (36 percent) of the operations reporting some lost colonies in which all adult bees disappeared.
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... of beekeepers to get a snapshot of how well managed colonies made it through the winter of 2007-08. ... of about 36.1 percent of their honey bee colonies, up about 13.5 percent from the previous winter.
Former British colonies are just as likely to suffer from bribery and sleaze as any other country according to an international study.
The U.S. treasure hunting company Odyssey Marine Exploration said on Thursday it had found two shipwreck sites near the English Channel with artifacts from the colonial period.
The contentious debate about why insects evolved to put the interests of the colony over the individual has been reignited by new research from the University of Leeds, showing that they do so to ...
The number of puffins at the UK's largest single breeding colony has plummeted by almost a third in the past five years, according to new data
... in Australia with mathematical modeling, scientists have shown that the quality and quantity of winged queens produced by colonies of the Rhytidoponera ant vary according to environmental conditions.
... For many Native Americans it signifies home, family, and territory; however, for others the term can refer to colonialism and Native American land under siege. Through the years the term has evolved ...
... deaths in the sample area were caused by attacks from neighbouring parents. Yet this particular colony has been monitored for almost thirty years, and in that time chick attacks have been very rare ...
... as a self-steering vehicle that can sense the road surface using a technique called Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), based on the behavior used by ants to find the shortest way between their ant hill ...
The growth of cities in colonial west-central Africa at the turn of the 20th century set the stage for the modern AIDS pandemic decades earlier than first thought, according to new viral archeology ...
Half to three-quarters of major Antarctic penguin colonies face decline or disappearance if global temperatures are allowed to climb by more than 2 C...
Half to three-quarters of major Antarctic penguin colonies face decline or disappearance if global temperatures are allowed to climb by more than 2°C.
... different castes (small workers, large workers, or new queens) based on genetics, nutrition, and environment (colony size). However the relative importance of each factor was different for each caste.
Canadian scientists say they fear avian cholera could put the future of some eider duck colonies in the Arctic in jeopardy.
