Australian bees have so far avoided the ‘colony collapse’ devastating hives around the world, but there’s growing pressure for a ban on certain insecticides blamed for bee deaths.
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Pollinating bees are among the ‘natural assets’ that have a greater – though less visible – impact than plastic waste on the environment.
To learn about how humans, animals and insects experience vision illusions, we had to find a way to ask bees what they saw.
While bee sting deaths are rare, bees cause more hospitalisations than any venomous creature.
Pollination in South Africa’s ecosystems is extremely complex. However new advances such as pollen metabarcoding help us understand interactions between pollinators and pollen.
Elephants have the highest count of olfactory receptor genes of any species tested to date. This suggests that they may be the best smellers in the animal kingdom.
New research shows bees see a blue halo around flowers thanks to nanostructures on its petals.
Urban bees deal with what’s known as “habitat patches,” discontinuous patches of green like gardens, parks and ravines. Green roofs could offer relief to bees dealing with habitat fragmentation.
New research shows stingless bees will assassinate their queen if she makes the wrong royal match.
Bees sting other animals, including humans, when they think there might be a threat to their hive. But Evie, age 8, wonders if bees ever accidentally sting other bees.
Bees and home security cameras use the same complex techniques to monitor their environments.
Exposure to neonicotinoids could lead to fewer bumblebee colonies, less pollination, and ultimately to population extinctions.
Garden pollinators can turn their noses up at the flowers human eyes find most beautiful.
Here’s how to take the sting out of these harmful pesticides.
Extra “eyes” on top of bee heads help them see colours the same way under all light conditions. And it’s an approach that could help us design better cameras.
Beekeeping cannot depend on a single forage source. This makes the business of ensuring bees have what they need to stay healthy a precarious business.
It’s a decade since US beekeepers first noticed that their bees were mysteriously dying. Now we know much more about Colony Collapse Disorder, raising hopes that we can turn bees’ fortunes around.
Small animals are the fabric of the world around us. Without them everything would crumble.
Every new batch of bees needs the equivalent of eight hectares of lavender fields to prosper.
They shoot, they score … if there’s a sugary reward at the end of it.
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