ApisUK late again you say. Yes, well that is to do with technology. The written up Apis for March was all on my small notebook computer (just a few months old) which simply failed and is now being repaired under guarantee. Had I been sensible and backed it up on a stick, the computer [...]
VANISHING BEES? – NEW TECHNIQUE COULD SOLVE THE MYSTERY
(Well it’s not really new because beekeepers have been using this technique for years – but it’s new to the scientists. Ed)
Ecologists in Germany have developed a better way of rearing bee larvae in the laboratory that could help discover why honey bee populations [...]
BEES, ANTS AND COLOURING LESSONS
Some pieces of research necessitate a leap of the imagination to grasp the concept involved and anything to do with mathematics generally confuses me anyway so it took some thinking to grasp the concept involved here.
Mathematics and Maps
In mathematics, you need at most only four [...]
CAN BEES REVEAL THE KEY TO HUMAN DEMENTIA? – AND CAN WE GROW YOUNGER??
In some really fascinating research, Norwegian researcher Gro Amdam has succeeded in reversing the aging process in the bee brain—findings which she believes may bring hope to people with dementia.
“No one really believes that the fountain of youth [...]
HOW DO BEES LEARN WHICH ODOURS TO FOLLOW?
Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin and the Bernstein Centre in Berlin have traced odour memory to a certain area of the bee brain. How successful bees are in their search for food depends to a certain extent on how well they can, based on their [...]
