A light crackling sound floats above a field in northern Switzerland in late summer. Its source is invisible, tucked inside a dead, dried plant stem: a dozen larval mason bees striking the inner walls ...
A team of scientists at Oregon State University has recently received more than $4 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to lead a study to understand a disease threatening honeybees. The ...
Bee larvae and pupae appear to secrete a chemical that does the work of a late-night cup of coffee for their nurses. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that taking care of babies is a ...
Silver Lyan. 900 F St. NW. Ryan Chetiyawardana—known as Mr Lyan—is world famous for his cutting-edge cocktails. At his DC bar, Silver Lyan in Penn Quarter’s Riggs hotel, the London-based barman has ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have identified a specific bacterial microbe that, when fed to honey bee larvae, can reduce the effects of nutritional stress on developing bees -- ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Even as larvae, honey bees are tuned in to the social culture of the hive, becoming more or less aggressive depending on who raises them, researchers report in the journal ...
A few years ago, Adrian Carper, who is in my department and also the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder, told me about a species of bee that could chew nest holes into ...
Some stingless bees seem to be able to choose whether to become a worker or the queen – but thousands of contenders for the throne are executed in each hive. About one-fifth of all Melipona beecheii ...
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