... of bees. One of the first findings of this novel approach was that Asian and European honeybees, after some time of adjustment in the mixed colony, could share information and work together to gather ...
... the correct scent for a long period. The odour is perceived by the two antennae that honeybees have on their heads. After the bees had been trained using both antennae, Rogers and Vallortigara tested ...
Different species of honeybees can learn to decipher other species' 'waggle dances.'
... of interactions between bees and hornets, frame by frame, and found that shimmering is triggered by giant honeybee colonies in response to approaching hornets, the strength and rate of the phenomenon ...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have modified a honeybee venom toxin so that it can be used as a tool to study the inner workings of ion channels that control heart ...
Researchers have modified a honeybee venom toxin so that it can be used as a tool to study the inner workings of ion channels that control heart rate and the recycling of salt in kidneys.
Flying high and fast, elite streaker honeybees lead the way to a new hive
(PhysOrg.com) -- What do dancing honeybees and stock markets have in common? At first glance, not much. But both are complicated dynamic systems that are extremely difficult to model — until now. An ...
... that enable them to detect air vibrations, such as the sound of an approaching predatory wasp or honeybee.
"These sensory hairs are not fine-tuned," Tautz said. "Therefore, caterpillars cannot ...
... difficulty learning the task, just like humans going into withdrawal.
Barron is confident that honeybees are as susceptible to cocaine's allure as humans, and is keen to find out more about the drug ...
Honeybees are important to plants for reasons that go beyond pollination, according to a new study in Current Biology. The insects' buzz also defends plants against the caterpillars that would ...
PITTSBURGH, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- Government and university researchers say they're stumped by a drastic rise in the number of disappearances of Western honeybee colonies in North America.
Despite their tiny brains, honeybees can recognise a human face from many different view points, new research has found.
Commercial honeybees are tough. They get trucked cross-country to pollinate vast crops, often while fed unnatural diets such as sugar water and soy flour. Their hives are treated with chemicals to ...
... of bees per year, we remain almost entirely dependent on what until recently was a self-renewing annual population of billions of honeybees to pollinate over 130 kinds of fruit and nut crops. [More]
