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Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...new detail concerning the behavior of the European honeybee – perhaps the most studied and economically import...ly de-centralized.” Schneider’s lab studies the honeybee and its behavioral ecology. Like humans, honeybees are remarkable for living in large organized gro...

Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest

... In Africa, where the small hive beetle is a minor honeybee pest, bees quickly isolate an invading beetle, but...common in Africa and pose little threat to African honeybee hives, it appears that domesticated European honeybees have a much harder time containing the beetle...

Detecting poisons in nectar is an odour-ous task for honeybees

...e, texture or scent with food. The newly-sequenced honeybee genome has revealed that honeybees do not have as many genes for taste receptors as other animals of a similar size, such as flies and mosquitoes. This prompted scientists to think that perhaps honeybees had a reduced need to detect and learn about ...

Queen bee promiscuity boosts hive health

...e," said Seeley. Specifically, Tarpy inseminated honeybee queens ( Apis mellifera ) with sperm from either a single drone or from 10 drones. Seeley then sprayed the brood colonies of the resulting 49 colonies (24 from "multiple-mate" queens and 25 from singly mated queens) with water tainted with spores of ...

Stanford snake venom study shows that certain cells may eliminate poison

...ree species of poisonous snakes and one species of honeybee were studied by a group led by Stephen Galli, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Pathology. Using mice, they analyzed how mast cells, a vital part of the immune system in mammals, reacted to the various venoms. The net effect of the mast ce...

ASU researchers find link between social behavior, maternal traits in bees

... Amdam met professor Robert Page, who was breeding honeybee strains distinguished by whether the worker bees were more likely to collect pollen or nectar. Besides their differing collecting habits, the strains possessed various other physiological and sense-related traits, but researchers did not understand h...

Researchers now able to look deep into heart to view triggers of a heart's beat

...organisms," Sullivan said. "Every time I look at a honeybee now, I think about these amazing structures they have, and it implies that among the millions of other species there must be cellular mechanisms we haven't even imagined." Centrosomes help orchestrate cell division, building an apparatus of microtub...

Insects that produce males from unfertilized eggs reveal a surprising cellular feat

...organisms," Sullivan said. "Every time I look at a honeybee now, I think about these amazing structures they have, and it implies that among the millions of other species there must be cellular mechanisms we haven't even imagined." Centrosomes help orchestrate cell division, building an apparatus of microtub...

Honeybee decision-making ability rivals any department committee

...cision-making, he says. Scientists had known that honeybee scouts "waggle dance" to report on food. Seeley an..., devising experiments and mathematically modeling honeybee swarms. "The bees' method, which is a product of disagreement and contest rather than consensus o...

Insects, viruses could hold key for better human teamwork in disasters

...ooth transition of concepts from the collaborative honeybee behavior to solve complex tasks, like foraging, into the disaster relief context, because of the modeling similarities of both settings. Although many research initiatives have used ants as a source of knowledge in telecommunications and transportat...

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