Flower colours that contrast with their background are more important to foraging bees than patterns of coloured veins on pale flowers
BUMBLEBEE LOSSES IN THE USA – MORE BAD NEWS FOR BIODIVERSITY
We have all learned about the huge losses of honeybees in the US but now a report has been released detailing major losses in the relative abundance of bumblebees. A large-scale study has shown a major decline in bumble bees in [...]
Researchers have found that tiny brains bees can solve a complex mathematical problem. Bumblebees can find the solution to a complex mathematical problem which keeps computers busy for days.
Scientists at the Royal Holloway College and Queen Mary College, University of London have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route between [...]
SCHOOLCHILDREN PUBLISH IN TOP SCIENCE JOURNAL
Students at Blackawton Primary School in the UK carried out their own original research on the vision of the buff-tailed bumble-bee Bombus terrestris.
Their research, published in the prestigious Royal Society journal Biology Letters reveals that “bumble-bees can use a combination of colour and spatial relationships in [...]
RNA VIRUSES: Does this research indicate one of the reasons for pollinator decline?
In a piece of worrying new research, Penn State researchers in the USA have found that native pollinators, like wild bees and wasps, are infected by the same viral diseases as honey bees and that these viruses are transmitted via [...]
FEARS OF A DECLINE IN BEE POLLINATORS CONFIRMED
Most people who read the newspapers have begun to realise that pollination decline is something to take seriously but is there any researched evidence to show that this is happening and why is it happening? Well there is now! A recent University of Toronto study provides [...]
..and one you probably hadn’t thought about! Are bees the new Silkworms? They produce ‘High Performance Silk.’ We all know that moths and butterflies, particularly silkworms, are well known producers of silk. And we all know spiders use it for their webs. But what about bees? Surely this most advanced of social [...]
