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Queen bee promiscuity boosts hive health

...ores of the highly virulent bacterium that infects bee larvae and causes the disease American Foulbrood. Sure enough, the more genetically diverse colonies derived from multiple fathers were significantly less affected by the disease several months later. The findings have implications for beekeepers...

Two studies on bee evolution reveal surprises

The discovery of a 100-million-year old bee embedded in amber -- perhaps the oldest bee ever found -- "pushes the bee fossil record back about 35 million years," according to Bryan Danfort...

Breathing easy: When it comes to oxygen, a bug's life is full of it

...eir spiracles. If you compare Lance Armstrong, the bee and the hummingbird, the bee is the champion of oxygen delivery,?he said. But at the same time, insects can survive low levels of...

Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest

...rom the hive entrance allows them to key in on the bee colonies without bees responding to their attack," the researchers report. Complicating the issue is the yeast that grows in the hives. The researchers found that this yeast only produced IPA when it grew on pollen. Even pollen substitute, a food so...

Warning from Asian bees

... beginning of a serious threat to Australian honey bee populations. Asian bees are known to have found t...decade. This time it’s a Javanese strain of the bee and because the latest incursion had lain undiscovered for at least three months, it is unknown how ...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...d his co-authors were able to document details of bee social behavior that fundamentally confirm the hyp...ured --we have centralized systems of control. But bee colony systems of control are very different – they are totally de-centralized.” Schneider’s lab ...

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