New technique could help solve mystery of vanishing bees
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 04:30
in Biology & Nature
Ecologists have developed a better way of rearing bee larvae in the laboratory that could help discover why honey bee populations worldwide are declining. The technique, together with details of how statistics adapted from other areas of ecology can aid bee research, is published this week in the British Ecological Society's journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.