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Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. About 3500 species occur in North America. They differ from most WASPS in that their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food.

Venoms obtained from Apis mellifera (honey bee) and related species. They contain various enzymes, polypeptide toxins, and other substances, some of which are allergenic or immunogenic or both. These venoms were formerly used in rheumatism to stimulate the pituitary-adrenal system.

A sweet viscous liquid food, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from nectar collected from flowers. The nectar is ripened into honey by inversion of its sucrose sugar into fructose and glucose. It is somewhat acidic and has mild antiseptic properties, being sometimes used in the treatment of burns and lacerations.

The management and maintenance of colonies of honeybees.

A family of MITES in the subclass ACARI. It includes the single genus Varroa.

The transfer of POLLEN grains (male gametes) to the plant ovule (female gamete).

The sudden collapse and disappearance or diminution of a colony of organisms.

A genus of parasitic FUNGI in the family Nosematidae. Some species are pathogenic for invertebrates of economic importance while others are being researched for possible roles in controlling pest INSECTS. They are also pathogenic in humans.

The fertilizing element of plants that contains the male GAMETOPHYTES.

Social rank-order established by certain behavioral patterns.

The use of wings or wing-like appendages to remain aloft and move through the air.

Sugar-rich liquid produced in plant glands called nectaries. It is either produced in flowers or other plant structures, providing a source of attraction for pollinating insects and animals, as well as being a nutrient source to animal mutualists which provide protection of plants against herbivores.

A pesticide or chemical agent that kills mites and ticks. This is a large class that includes carbamates, formamides, organochlorines, organophosphates, etc, that act as antibiotics or growth regulators.

A resinous substance obtained from beehives that is used traditionally as an antimicrobial. It is a heterogeneous mixture of many substances.

Animal behavior associated with the nest; includes construction, effects of size and material; behavior of the adult during the nesting period and the effect of the nest on the behavior of the young.

Instinctual patterns of activity related to a specific area including ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances using navigational clues such as those used in migration (ANIMAL MIGRATION).

Communication between animals involving the giving off by one individual of some chemical or physical signal, that, on being received by another, influences its behavior.

Any behavior caused by or affecting another individual, usually of the same species.

Delivery of the FETUS and PLACENTA under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, medical, or surgical interventions.

The generic term for salts derived from silica or the silicic acids. They contain silicon, oxygen, and one or more metals, and may contain hydrogen. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th Ed)

Childbirth taking place in the home.

Educational institutions.

Works containing information articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order, or a similar work limited to a special field or subject. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)

The largest family of snakes, comprising five subfamilies: Colubrinae, Natricinae, Homalopsinae, Lycodontinae, and Xenodontinae. They show a great diversity of eating habits, some eating almost anything, others having a specialized diet. They can be oviparous, ovoviviparous, or viviparous. The majority of North American snakes are colubrines. Among the colubrids are king snakes, water moccasins, water snakes, and garter snakes. Some genera are poisonous. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, pp321-29)

A nursing specialty concerned with health and nursing care given to primary and secondary school students by a registered nurse.

Time period from 1801 through 1900 of the common era.

Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of medicine.

Using an INTERNET based personal journal which may consist of reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks.

Affection; in psychiatry commonly refers to pleasure, particularly as it applies to gratifying experiences between individuals.

The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products.

A concept that stands for or suggests something else by reason of its relationship, association, convention, or resemblance. The symbolism may be mental or a visible sign or representation. (From Webster, 3d ed)

Warm-blooded VERTEBRATES possessing FEATHERS and belonging to the class Aves.

The process by which a person or group of persons comes to be regarded or treated as lacking in human qualities.

A widely distributed order of perching BIRDS, including more than half of all bird species.

Periodic movements of animals in response to seasonal changes or reproductive instinct. Hormonal changes are the trigger in at least some animals. Most migrations are made for reasons of climatic change, feeding, or breeding.

The reproductive organs of plants.

An animal's cleaning and caring for the body surface. This includes preening, the cleaning and oiling of feathers with the bill or of hair with the tongue.

Differential expression of mitochondrial genes between queens and workers during caste determination in the honeybee Apis mellifera. (1/1920)

The nourishment received by female honeybee larvae determines their differentiation into queens or workers. In this study, we report the first molecular analysis of differences that occur between queens and workers during the caste-determination process. RNA-differential display experiments identified a clone that encodes for a gene that is homologous to the nuclear-encoded mitochondrial translation initiation factor (AmIF-2mt). Semi-quantitative analysis by reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) throughout honeybee development detected a higher level of expression of this gene in queen larvae than in worker larvae. Analysis of two other genes encoding mitochondrial proteins, cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COX-1; mitochondrial-encoded) and cytochrome c (cyt c; nuclear-encoded) also showed differential expression of these two genes between queens and workers. In particular, the cyt c transcript is more abundant in queen larvae and throughout the metamorphosis of the queen. These results indicate that the higher respiratory rate previously documented in queen larvae is accomplished through a higher level of expression of both nuclear- and mitochondrial-encoded genes for mitochondrial proteins. (+info)

IA in Kenyon cells of the mushroom body of honeybees resembles shaker currents: kinetics, modulation by K+, and simulation. (2/1920)

Cultured Kenyon cells from the mushroom body of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, show a voltage-gated, fast transient K+ current that is sensitive to 4-aminopyridine, an A current. The kinetic properties of this A current and its modulation by extracellular K+ ions were investigated in vitro with the whole cell patch-clamp technique. The A current was isolated from other voltage-gated currents either pharmacologically or with suitable voltage-clamp protocols. Hodgkin- and Huxley-style mathematical equations were used for the description of this current and for the simulation of action potentials in a Kenyon cell model. Activation and inactivation of the A current are fast and voltage dependent with time constants of 0.4 +/- 0.1 ms (means +/- SE) at +45 mV and 3.0 +/- 1.6 ms at +45 mV, respectively. The pronounced voltage dependence of the inactivation kinetics indicates that at least a part of this current of the honeybee Kenyon cells is a shaker-like current. Deactivation and recovery from inactivation also show voltage dependency. The time constant of deactivation has a value of 0.4 +/- 0.1 ms at -75 mV. Recovery from inactivation needs a double-exponential function to be fitted adequately; the resulting time constants are 18 +/- 3.1 ms for the fast and 745 +/- 107 ms for the slow process at -75 mV. Half-maximal activation of the A current occurs at -0.7 +/- 2.9 mV, and half-maximal inactivation occurs at -54.7 +/- 2.4 mV. An increase in the extracellular K+ concentration increases the conductance and accelerates the recovery from inactivation of the A current, affecting the slow but not the fast time constant. With respect to these modulations the current under investigation resembles some of the shaker-like currents. The data of the A current were incorporated into a reduced computational model of the voltage-gated currents of Kenyon cells. In addition, the model contained a delayed rectifier K+ current, a Na+ current, and a leakage current. The model is able to generate an action potential on current injection. The model predicts that the A current causes repolarization of the action potential but not a delay in the initiation of the action potential. It further predicts that the activation of the delayed rectifier K+ current is too slow to contribute markedly to repolarization during a single action potential. Because of its fast activation, the A current reduces the amplitude of the net depolarizing current and thus reduces the peak amplitude and the duration of the action potential. (+info)

Biological activities of C-terminal 15-residue synthetic fragment of melittin: design of an analog with improved antibacterial activity. (3/1920)

Melittin, the 26-residue predominant toxic peptide from bee venom, exhibits potent antibacterial activity in addition to its hemolytic activity. The synthetic peptide of 15 residues corresponding to its C-terminal end (MCF), which encompasses its most amphiphilic segment, is now being shown to possess antibacterial activity about 5-7 times less compared to that of melittin. MCF, however, is 300 times less hemolytic. An analog of MCF, MCFA, in which two cationic residues have been transpositioned to the N-terminal region from the C-terminal region, exhibits antibacterial activity comparable to that of melittin, but is only marginally more hemolytic than MCF. The biophysical properties of the peptides, like folding and aggregation, correlate well with their biological properties. (+info)

A PCR detection method for rapid identification of Paenibacillus larvae. (4/1920)

American foulbrood is a disease of larval honeybees (Apis mellifera) caused by the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae. Over the years attempts have been made to develop a selective medium for the detection of P. larvae spores from honey samples. The most successful of these is a semiselective medium containing nalidixic acid and pipermedic acid. Although this medium allows the growth of P. larvae and prevents the growth of most other bacterial species, the false-positive colonies that grow on it prevent the rapid confirmation of the presence of P. larvae. Here we describe a PCR detection method which can be used on the colonies that grow on this semiselective medium and thereby allows the rapid confirmation of the presence of P. larvae. The PCR primers were designed on the basis of the 16S rRNA gene of P. larvae and selectively amplify a 973-bp amplicon. The PCR amplicon was confirmed as originating from P. larvae by sequencing in both directions. Detection was specific for P. larvae, and the primers did not hybridize with DNA from closely related bacterial species. (+info)

Differential gene expression between developing queens and workers in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. (5/1920)

Many insects show polyphenisms, or alternative morphologies, which are based on differential gene expression rather than genetic polymorphism. Queens and workers are alternative forms of the adult female honey bee and represent one of the best known examples of insect polyphenism. Hormonal regulation of caste determination in honey bees has been studied in detail, but little is known about the proximate molecular mechanisms underlying this process, or any other such polyphenism. We report the success of a molecular-genetic approach for studying queen- and worker-specific gene expression in the development of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). Numerous genes appear to be differentially expressed between the two castes. Seven differentially expressed loci described here belong to at least five distinctly different evolutionary and functional groups. Two are particularly promising as potential regulators of caste differentiation. One is homologous to a widespread class of proteins that bind lipids and other hydrophobic ligands, including retinoic acid. The second locus shows sequence similarity to a DNA-binding domain in the Ets family of transcription factors. The remaining loci appear to be involved with downstream changes inherent to queen- or worker-specific developmental pathways. Caste determination in honey bees is typically thought of as primarily queen determination; our results make it clear that the process involves specific activation of genes in workers as well as in queens. (+info)

The role of orientation flights on homing performance in honeybees. (6/1920)

Honeybees have long served as a model organism for investigating insect navigation. Bees, like many other nesting animals, primarily use learned visual features of the environment to guide their movement between the nest and foraging sites. Although much is known about the spatial information encoded in memory by experienced bees, the development of large-scale spatial memory in naive bees is not clearly understood. Past studies suggest that learning occurs during orientation flights taken before the start of foraging. We investigated what honeybees learn during their initial experience in a new landscape by examining the homing of bees displaced after a single orientation flight lasting only 5-10 min. Homing ability was assessed using vanishing bearings and homing speed. At release sites with a view of the landmarks immediately surrounding the hive, 'first-flight' bees, tested after their very first orientation flight, had faster homing rates than 'reorienting foragers', which had previous experience in a different site prior to their orientation flight in the test landscape. First-flight bees also had faster homing rates from these sites than did 'resident' bees with full experience of the terrain. At distant sites, resident bees returned to the hive more rapidly than reorienting or first-flight bees; however, in some cases, the reorienting bees were as successful as the resident bees. Vanishing bearings indicated that all three types of bees were oriented homewards when in the vicinity of landmarks near the hive. When bees were released out of sight of these landmarks, hence forcing them to rely on a route memory, the 'first-flight' bees were confused, the 'reorienting' bees chose the homeward direction except at the most distant site and the 'resident' bees were consistently oriented homewards. (+info)

Update on the status of Africanized honey bees in the western states. (7/1920)

The Africanized honey bee (AHB), Apis mellifera scutella--perhaps better known as the "killer bee"--has arrived in the western United States and in southern California, following a nearly 50-year north-ward migration across South and Central America. First detected near Hidalgo, Texas in October 1993, the bees continue to advance 100 to 300 miles per year by colonizing existing hives or forming new hives in the wild. Although the AHB's "killer" reputation has been greatly exaggerated, the presence of AHBs will increase the chances of people being stung. (+info)

Mass envenomations by honey bees and wasps. (8/1920)

Stinging events involving honey bees and wasps are rare; most deaths or clinically important incidents involve very few stings (< 10) and anaphylactic shock. However, mass stinging events can prove life-threatening via the toxic action of the venom when injected in large amounts. With the advent of the Africanized honey bee in the southwestern United States and its potential for further spread, mass envenomation incidents will increase. Here we review the literature on mass stinging events involving honey bees and wasps (i.e., yellowjackets, wasps, and hornets). Despite different venom composition in the two insect groups, both may cause systemic damage and involve hemolysis, rhabdomyolysis, and acute renal failure. Victim death may occur due to renal failure or cardiac complications. With supportive care, however, most victims should be able to survive attacks from hundreds of wasps or approximately 1000 honey bees. (+info)

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For example, numbers of the Western honeybee-the most common of the domesticated species-in the United States have actually been rising slowly in recent years (there around 2.9 million colonies today compared with 2.5 million colonies 10 years ago, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture), and the species is not at risk of extinction. (newsweek.com)
Large-scale losses of honey bee colonies represent a poorly understood problem of global importance. (pnas.org)
Everyone wants healthy, thriving honey bee colonies. (usda.gov)
Managed honey bee colonies are our primary pollinators, adding at least $15 billion a year by increasing yields and helping to ensure superior-quality harvests. (usda.gov)
Field studies in the United Kingdom and Canada found no health difference in bee colonies that fed on pesticide-treated crops as compared with untreated crops. (washingtontimes.com)
To combat the symptoms of CCD, before each winter, beekeepers start off more bee colonies, which they will combine in the spring. (thedailybeast.com)
Bumble bees are social insects that live in colonies with nests typically located in the ground. (osu.edu)
Carpenter bees are solitary insects that do not form colonies. (osu.edu)
The most advanced of these are eusocial colonies can be found among the honeybees and stingless bees. (redorbit.com)
live in colonies of 30-400 bees. (redorbit.com)
Regional bee crises have happened before, but this is the first epidemic on a national scale, as bees fly off in search of pollen but fail to return to their colonies. (treehugger.com)
Amos B (2009) Death of the bees: GMO crops and the decline of bee colonies in North America. (springer.com)
The city already has 2,500 registered hives, but lost a third of its bee colonies in the winter of 2009-'10 because of Colony Collapse Disorder . (fastcompany.com)
Responses of both stocks were tested by removing the middle legs of uninfected, young adult bees, exposing the bees to mites in infested colonies, then retrieving the test bees and measuring parasitism. (usda.gov)
The "heater bees" have been found to play a crucial, and previously unappreciated, role in the survival of honey bee colonies. (telegraph.co.uk)
Most of the parasites in the wild bumblebees were found to be at normal levels except for one intestinal parasite known as Crithidia bombi that is common in commercial bee colonies but typically absent in wild bumblebees. (reuters.com)
The "spillover" of disease from commercial colonies may be a factor in the decline of bee populations in North America, he added. (reuters.com)
LONDON (Reuters) - England's honey bee colonies are dying at an alarming rate due to disease and a lack of coordinated response by health authorities, a parliamentary report concluded on Tuesday. (reuters.com)
England and Wales have around 250,000 colonies of honey bees, which contribute around 200 million pounds to the economy since they are solely responsible for pollinating nearly 40 commercial crops. (reuters.com)
As well as changes to habitat and food supply, the bees were being adversely affected by cold and weather, with the threat that up to 30 percent of colonies could be lost over the winter. (reuters.com)
Transport of bee colonies and bee products (e.g. beeswax) across international boundaries can pose a risk of accidental introduction of insects, fungi or other potentially destructive agents. (fao.org)
It is recommended that anyone planning to move bee colonies across international boundaries check with appropriate authorities in the country from where the products are to be exported and the countries into which the products are to be imported for import permit requirements, sanitary certificates or restrictions that might apply. (fao.org)
By mating with nearly 100 males, queen bees on isolated islands avoid inbreeding and keep colonies healthy. (redorbit.com)
The results, published in the current issue of PLoS ONE, focused on giant honey bee colonies on Hainan Island, off the coast of China. (redorbit.com)
Image Caption: Zachary Huang, MSU entomologist, demonstrated how queen bees on isolated islands keep colonies healthy. (redorbit.com)
Experts urge that no one other than trained beekeepers maintaining colonies during a dearth of nectar should provide bees with sugar water. (snopes.com)
Colonies without pollen supply maintain brood rearing only for a short time, first by using up the stored bee bread and later by depleting their body reserves. (snopes.com)
In North America and Europe, Colony Collapse Disorder, a poorly understood phenomenon that causes worker bees to abandon and therefore destroy their colonies, became an increasing concern in the early 2000s, stoking fears over pesticide use and the future of farming. (snopes.com)
To pare down these potential culprits, Reed Johnson from the University of Illinois compared the genetic activity of bees from over 120 colonies, including some affected by CCD and healthy ones that were sampled before the vanishing began. (scienceblogs.com)
Indeed, although Johnson found that no single infection separated the CCD colonies from the healthy ones, the sick bees were generally carrying a higher burden of viruses and parasites. (scienceblogs.com)
Since ~2006, honey bee colonies in the US have been dropping dead overnight. (scienceblogs.com)
The bees were then removed and a second group of flowers were added to the foraging arena along with colonies of a second bee species (a species not used before). (eurekalert.org)
There are millions of honey bee colonies in North America, 2.8 million of which are in the U.S. Approximating around 30,000 bees per colony (the size of a pollination unit ), that's roughly a billion honey bees in Canada and the U.S. alone-almost triple the number of people. (scientificamerican.com)
High densities of honey bee colonies increase competition between native pollinators for forage, putting even more pressure on the wild species that are already in decline. (scientificamerican.com)
In the highlands of the islands' Teide National Park, thousands of honey bee colonies are introduced seasonally for honey production and removed again at the end of the nectar flow, creating an excellent scenario for experimentation. (scientificamerican.com)
Wild colonies would be of the UK's native honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera mellifera, also known as the European dark bee, surviving on their own in remote areas or in a range of cavities. (bbc.co.uk)
It has been suggested that disease wiped them out in the early 20th Century, yet across most parts of the UK there remain anecdotal sightings of colonies thriving without human intervention. (bbc.co.uk)
The author concluded that there are unlikely to be any large, remote colonies of wild honey bees remaining in England and Wales and, as a result, she turned her attention to feral honey bees - colonies living in the wild that are thought to have escaped from managed stocks. (bbc.co.uk)
To discover their significance Dr Thompson asked bee keepers to report unmanaged colonies of bees that had lasted for at least a year near to them. (bbc.co.uk)
She sampled bees from feral colonies along with those from managed colonies in the same area. (bbc.co.uk)
Dr Thompson found that the feral and non-treated managed colonies had a significantly higher level of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV), which is transmitted to bees by the varroa mite, than the managed colonies that were treated. (bbc.co.uk)
If not in beekeepers' hives, then in wild bee colonies. (bbc.co.uk)
Albeit that those colonies may at first have been escapees, they cannot all have died out or we would not have the varroa tolerant bees we now see. (bbc.co.uk)
He and his colleagues established 38 bee colonies across central California, ranging from undisturbed chaparral to organic and conventional farms. (innovations-report.com)
Therefore, a mosaic landscape that has natural areas mixed in with agriculture is important to keep bee colonies healthy. (innovations-report.com)
Bee colonies feature highly efficient social structures. (upi.com)
In honey bee colonies tasks are divided according to age. (eurekalert.org)
Because beets are incredibly nutritious and pollinated by the wind, they are one of the staple crops that scientists believe we would be forced to eat regularly if bee colonies completely collapse. (neatorama.com)
But the steady decline of bee colonies puts these foods and drinks in jeopardy. (independent.com)
Thirty to 40 percent of all bee colonies are lost every season, beekeepers report. (independent.com)
We need to work to protect bee colonies in order to reduce a future of an insecure food supply, not to mention the cost of a healthy diet. (independent.com)
We know that a ban will not solve the issue of bee colonies disappearing. (independent.com)
More than 30 percent of honeybee colonies have been disappearing each year, according to Nature.com. (reference.com)
Loretta and her husband Kevin soon discovered the 1 1/2-storey house they live in with their 22-month-old son had a few unexpected guests: 80,000 bees nesting in two colonies in the first-floor ceiling. (metafilter.com)
Researchers who led the Canadian study concluded that worker bees exposed to neonicotinoids - which they said often came from contaminated pollen from nearby plants, not from treated crops - had lower life expectancies and their colonies were more likely to suffer from a loss of queen bees. (yahoo.com)
On the findings of the European study, researchers told a briefing in London that exposure to neonicotinoid crops harmed honeybee colonies in two of the three countries and reduced the reproductive success of wild bees across all three. (yahoo.com)
The Bee Research Lab conducts research to improve the health of honey bee colonies and help the beekeeping industry maintain an adequate healthy supply of bees for the pollination of crops. (usda.gov)

When a bee comes in contact with pesticides while foraging, the bee may die immediately without returning to the hive. (wikipedia.org)
Colony collapse disorder is a syndrome that is characterized by the sudden loss of adult bees from the hive. (wikipedia.org)
The queens daily laying rate will decline if contaminated materials are brought back to the hive such as pesticides.31.6% of exposed honey bees will fail to return to their colony every day while the rest will bring back contaminated pollen which in turn will not only affect the worker bees but also the queen. (wikipedia.org)
There is only one queen in a hive and her main purpose is to make more bees. (google.com)
Worker bees are the most numerous in the hive and do all the different jobs needed to maintain and operate the hive. (google.com)
When they are young they are called house bees and work in the hive doing comb construction, taking care of young bees, tending the queen and drones, cleaning temperature regulation and defending the hive. (google.com)
Worker bees use beeswax to build the six-sided honeycombs, which are the central feature of the hive. (google.com)
Bee Downtown started in 2014 with two beehives on a rooftop at the American Tobacco Campus and a clear storefront observatory hive at the front door of Burt's Bees in Durham, NC. (redhat.com)
By herself one honey bee can produce 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey over its lifetime, while a hive can generate over 80 pounds of honey in a matter of months" Bonner shared. (redhat.com)
This is probably because a bee that lives alone in a hole in the desert has less to defend than a social honeybee that has invested all its energy in helping to maintain a hive for 50,000 of its brethren. (nwf.org)
I certainly wouldn't suggest to anyone that you import Africanized bees as a method to combat varroa… If you've got resistance to varroa, that's great, but if I get 10,000 stings every time I open a hive that's no good. (thedailybeast.com)
By contrast, an average honeybee hive at the height of summer will have 30,000 - 50,000 bees. (redorbit.com)
Except for her one mating flight or to establish a new colony, the queen rarely leaves the hive after the larvae have become full grown bees. (redorbit.com)
Worker bees are infertile females which secrete the wax used to build the hive, clean and maintain the hive, raise the young, guard the hive and forage for nectar and pollen. (redorbit.com)
In honeybees, the worker bees have a modified ovipositor called a stinger with which they can sting to defend the hive, but the bee will die soon after. (redorbit.com)
If you want to get rid of an entire bee hive or wasp nest, it is usually best to call a professional exterminator so that you do not put yourself at risk for getting attacked by a swarm of bees. (ehow.com)
If you are going to attempt to cut down a bee hive yourself, you should always wear protective gloves, glasses or goggles and a long sleeved shirt. (ehow.com)
Using new technology that allows sceintists to see the temperature inside the bee hives, researchers have been able to see how heater bees use their own bodies to provide a unique form of central heating within a hive. (telegraph.co.uk)
They have found that these specialised bees, whose body temperatures are considerably higher than other bees in the colony, not only keep the hive warm but also control the social make-up within a colony. (telegraph.co.uk)
Heater bees are responsible for maintaining the temperature of the brood nest in a hive, where young bees, known as pupae, are sealed into wax cells while they develop into mature bees. (telegraph.co.uk)
The heater bees, which can number from just a few to many hundreds depending on the outside temperature and size of the hive, also press themselves against individual cells to top up the temperature of each pupae to ensure it develops into the right kind of bee. (telegraph.co.uk)
Rather than try to clear the bees from the jet themselves, crew members realized that honey bees are at risk of extinction and contacted local beekeeper and retired US Navy veteran, Andy Westrich, who proclaimed the hive the largest he had ever seen after being escorted to the aircraft. (cnn.com)
Before transporting the bees to their new home at a local beer production facility, Westrich took them to his house and found that the hive weighed nearly eight pounds in total, according to the Air Force release. (cnn.com)
They likely came from a much larger bee hive somewhere else on the base, according to Chief Master Sgt. (cnn.com)
The University of Dundee study will investigate whether certain pesticides damage the nervous systems of bees and stop them being able to do the "waggle dance" which shows the rest of the hive where a food source is located. (telegraph.co.uk)
I've kept bees for 18 years now - started with 1 hive , now have 3 goodun's and 2 'iffey' ones and I'm thinking this year's been the. (care2.com)
Bees can become tired and they simply don't have enough energy to return to the hive which can often result in being swept away. (snopes.com)
The calls act as an instinctive warning to leave the hive, but the frequency confuses the bees, causing them to fly erratically. (inhabitat.com)
In the past few years when I've been investigating hive thefts, it's been 20 here, 40 there. (washingtonpost.com)
There are different types of bees in a honey bee hive: Worker, Drone and Queen. (uaex.edu)
This mixture of chemicals is passed individually from bee to bee throughout the entire hive as they share food. (uaex.edu)
For the first two to three weeks of adult life, bees typically take care of the brood in the hive. (eurekalert.org)
The bold bee scouts that go out in search of food for their hive show more activity in certain genes in their brains than do other bees. (livescience.com)
They go out and find new sources of food without being directed to those sources, while the non-scouts wait in the hive until they are recruited by a scouter bee ,' study researcher Gene Robinson, director of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told LiveScience. (livescience.com)
The bees can leave the building, but they cannot get back in and will settle in the decoy hive. (osu.edu)
Remove the trap and allow the bees in the decoy hive to go back in the building to retrieve their honey. (osu.edu)
When they get the chance, the larvae then grab on to the female bee and catch a ride to the inside of the hive where they can feed on young bees and honey. (neatorama.com)
Recent attack victims include several people in La Mesa, CA who were swarmed by Africanized bees, and a Las Vegas man who was stung some 2,000 times after he overturned a rock that exposed a 50 lb. hive. (coasttocoastam.com)
Bees set up hive in professor's cello Jump to media player A university professor has used the cello to research vibrations made by the pollinating insects. (bbc.co.uk)
During 30 minutes of collection time a well adjusted collector device will not kill more than 10 bees per hive. (ibiblio.org)
This loss is not significant to the population of the bee hive and does not eff ect the life span of the colony. (ibiblio.org)

Bees pollinate a significant majority of the world's food, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. (organicconsumers.org)
Native to Europe, Asia, and Africa, the honey bee is a single species of bee that happens to be easily domesticated, not only for honey production at but also to pollinate crops. (huffingtonpost.com)
One-third of the food we eat requires pollinators, and commercial beekeepers transport honey bees hundreds of miles each year to pollinate almond trees and other crops. (usda.gov)
Honey bees may be in different hives, but they pollinate and work together. (redhat.com)
Bees land on the sunflowers to pollinate. (washingtontimes.com)
Bees pollinate numerous crops, and scientists have been expressing alarm over their falling numbers in recent years in North America. (reuters.com)
She said crops like strawberries need wild flowers nearby to maintain a population of bees and other insects to pollinate the fruit in summer. (telegraph.co.uk)
These bees, which were imported to North America to pollinate agricultural crops, are easy to distinguish from native bees by their coloring, which is golden brown with black abdominal stripes. (treehugger.com)
Honeybees pollinate a wide range of plants, including important agricultural crops like almonds, although they're often less efficient than native bees. (treehugger.com)
Roughly one out of every three or four bites we take is due to the busy little bees that pollinate our fruits and vegetables. (philly.com)
Hives of these bees are trucked cross-country to pollinate oranges in Florida, apples in Pennsylvania, blueberries in Maine. (philly.com)
Meanwhile, researchers have developed a new appreciation for the hundreds of species of wild bees that also pollinate our plants. (philly.com)
While large populations of organisms dying is disturbing, no matter the species, we need honey bees-- they help pollinate so many of our crops. (scienceblogs.com)
Gratitude, however, doesn't begin to cover what we owe to bees collectively: they pollinate 70 of the top 100 food crops humans cultivate, supplying 90% of our nutrition world-wide. (kqed.org)
Honey bees produce millions of dollars worth of honey and beeswax, as well as pollinate commercial fruits, vegetables, and field crops that we depend on for food. (osu.edu)
Examples of management of non- Apis species for agricultural pollination include the use of bumble bees, primarily for the pollination of greenhouse tomatoes, the solitary bees Nomia and Osmia for the pollination of orchard crops, Megachile for alfalfa pollination, and social stingless bees to pollinate coffee and other crops [ 9 - 12 ]. (hindawi.com)
This is a scary trend because bees pollinate one in three of all the foods we eat. (independent.com)
Thursday's feast exemplifies our reliance on bees, as they pollinate the ingredients of many classic Thanksgiving dishes: Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, green beans, pumpkin pie, and more! (independent.com)
There is no doubt that bees and the flowers that they pollinate evolved simultaneously . (britannica.com)

But honeybees are really only one of a group of insects that includes other bees, wasps, and ants. (kidshealth.org)
By focusing attention on honeybees, policies and funding priorities may undermine native bee conservation and have negative impacts, ecologically and socially. (newsweek.com)
Several studies have shown that workers of social bees such as honeybees and bumblebees forage less efficiently the more flower types they visit. (fed.us)
However, honeybees and bees themselves are not going extinct anytime soon. (huffingtonpost.com)
The month of May always makes us think of flowers, and flowers makes us think of bees, and bees make us think of Honeybees. (google.com)
Many North Americans think all bees are honeybees--the domesticated buzzers first brought to the New World by European colonists in the 1600s. (nwf.org)
Bees periodically stop foraging and groom themselves to pack the pollen into specialized pollen baskets which are on the legs of honeybees and some other species, and on the ventral abdomen on other species. (redorbit.com)
For America's beekeepers, who have struggled for nearly a decade with a mysterious malady called colony collapse disorder that kills honeybees en masse, the last year was particularly bad. (nytimes.com)
Honeybees have been on this earth for about 25 million years and are ideally adapted to their natural environment. (care2.com)
All U.S. native bees and honeybees, which are not native to North America, are capable of stinging, Griffin says. (treehugger.com)
These bees are a little larger than honeybees and have a black body covered with dense yellow and black hair. (treehugger.com)
Since late 2006, honeybees in Europe and North America have been mysteriously disappearing. (scienceblogs.com)
He explained that commercially imported bumblebees have been found to contain a cocktail of parasites that are harmful to both bumblebees and honeybees. (eurekalert.org)
We know these commercially imported bumblebees, when given the opportunity, will forage on the same flowers as wild bees and honeybees," he said. (eurekalert.org)
The most recent and headline-capturing phenomenon, known as colony collapse disorder, is characterized by the disappearance of adult honeybees from beekeeper hives, leaving behind bee larvae with no caretakers. (innovations-report.com)
The bee decline is particularly unnerving for farmers because an estimated 80 percent of all food crops are pollinated by honeybees and their wild cousins. (innovations-report.com)
Rachael Winfree of Rutgers University is particularly interested in the health of native bees as "biological insurance" against the decline of honeybees. (innovations-report.com)
In addition to honeybees, bumblebees and wild bees, the chemicals have been implicated in declines of butterflies in Northern California. (mercola.com)
This valuable educational tool shows a vibrant, real-life example of the codependent nature of our food ecosystem and the valuable services that pollinators ( especially honeybees) provide to agriculture, while offering a diverse habitat for native bees and other pollinators. (usda.gov)
Possibly the greatest threat to honeybees, Varroa mites are obligate parasites that feed on both adult honey bees and brood, spreading viruses, crippling the bees and weakening the colony. (usda.gov)
Plan to spend an hour or two per week for honeybees and about a couple of hours per year for solitary bees, says Jay Williams, owner of Williams Honey Farm in Franklin, Tenn. (tractorsupply.com)

These bees build nests out of wax in old trees and manmade hives (like the ones that beekeepers take care of) and spend a lot of their time collecting nectar and pollen from flowers. (kidshealth.org)
Wasps are closely related to bees, but instead of only feeding on pollen and honey, wasps eat animal food, other insects, or spiders. (kidshealth.org)
Examples of such "spotlighting" can be seen in other Pollinator-of-the-Month features such as those about globe mallow bees , squash bees , and pollen wasps . (fed.us)
While pollen grains contain most of the nutrients required by adult bees to mature and rear their offspring, including proteins, starches, fats, and vitamins, plant species are by no means uniform in their pollen constituents. (fed.us)
Thus, digesting pollen from many flower species, as generalists must do, may require more sophisticated metabolic and detoxification systems than possessed by bees that specialize. (fed.us)
A metallic green sweat bee ( Agapostemon ) struts her pollen-collecting chops as she visits a wild rose flower on the Wyoming prairie. (fed.us)
A species of sweat bee ( Halictus escholzia ) collects pollen from a California poppy flower. (fed.us)
They are temporarily held fast by the orchid while the pollinium pollen packets are picked up and then 'glued' onto the back of the bee in a species-specific location. (fed.us)
Finally, the orchid releases the bee carrying the orchid pollen to travel to a new orchid. (fed.us)
The natural diet of bees is honey and bee bread , which is fermented pollen. (huffingtonpost.com)
Alternatively, the bee may come into contact with an insecticide and transport it back to the colony in contaminated pollen or nectar or on its body, potentially causing widespread colony death. (wikipedia.org)
A systemic pesticide, which is incorporated into the soil or coated on seeds, may kill soil-dwelling insects, such as grubs or mole crickets as well as other insects, including bees, that are exposed to the leaves, fruits, pollen, and nectar of the treated plants. (wikipedia.org)
Unlike carpenter bees, bumble bees have a very hairy abdomen with yellow markings and they also have large pollen baskets on their hind legs. (osu.edu)
Bees are fuzzy and carry an electrostatic charge, thus aiding in the adherence of pollen. (redorbit.com)
Transgenes such as BT may be expressed in pollen and in the plant parts and secretions collected by bees. (springer.com)
Babendreier D, Kalberer N, Romeis J, Fluri P, Bigler F (2004) Pollen consumption in honey bee larvae: a step forward in the risk assessment of transgenic plants. (springer.com)
Those kept at 35 degrees C turn into the intelligent forager bees that leave the nest in search of nectar and pollen. (telegraph.co.uk)
A bumble bee collects pollen from a flower in a garden near York, northern England, June 28, 2008. (reuters.com)
The scientists placed the flowers in a field at Rothamsted Research, a biological research station north of London, in October - a time of year when there are few natural sources of nectar and pollen and the bees are more likely to focus on the artificial flowers. (wired.com)
Look closely at them, and if they've been visiting flowers you will notice yellow pollen on their legs. (treehugger.com)
As the bees collect pollen, they move it across their bodies and to their legs where they place it in little baskets . (treehugger.com)
If you're thinking you don't want to get close enough to a bee to look at its abdomen, Griffin encourages you to remember these bees are looking for pollen, not for you. (treehugger.com)
And a recent study showed that fungicides on pollen, while not killing the bees, makes them more susceptible to the parasite. (philly.com)
First, supplemental feeding with plain sugar water is not an ideal solution for the bees, because sugar water does not contain any of the protein, lipids, minerals, and vitamins found in the pollen collected and fermented by bees. (snopes.com)
Honey bees have developed a mechanism to react to changes in the ratio of pollen supply and protein demand of brood: they cannibalize brood and thereby gain protein which they use to feed other larvae. (snopes.com)
One of the most interesting results in the study is the detection of deformed-wing virus and sacbrood virus in pollen carried by foraging bees that weren't infected themselves, comments Michelle Flenniken of the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied bee viruses but was not involved in the new work. (wired.com)
This raises concerns about possible virus transmission through the 200 tons of honeybee-collected pollen used to feed bumblebees in bee-raising operations worldwide, Cox-Foster says. (wired.com)
Bee pollen refers to the flower pollen that collects on the legs and bodies of worker bees. (medlineplus.gov)
Pollens come from many plants, so the contents of bee pollen can vary significantly. (medlineplus.gov)
Don't confuse bee pollen with bee venom, honey, or royal jelly. (medlineplus.gov)
People commonly take bee pollen for nutrition. (medlineplus.gov)
There is no good evidence to support using bee pollen for COVID-19. (medlineplus.gov)
Research suggests that taking bee pollen supplements by mouth does not seem to increase athletic performance in athletes. (medlineplus.gov)
There is interest in using bee pollen for a number of other purposes, but there isn't enough reliable information to say whether it might be helpful. (medlineplus.gov)
Bee pollen might help stimulate the immune system when taken by mouth or promote wound healing when applied to the skin. (medlineplus.gov)
However, it's not clear how bee pollen causes these effects. (medlineplus.gov)
Some people say that the enzymes in bee pollen act like medicines. (medlineplus.gov)
However, these enzymes are broken down in the stomach, so it is unlikely that taking bee pollen enzymes by mouth causes these effects. (medlineplus.gov)
Bee pollen is POSSIBLY SAFE for most people when taken for up to 30 days. (medlineplus.gov)
Bee pollen can cause serious allergic reactions in people who are allergic to pollen. (medlineplus.gov)
Taking bee pollen is POSSIBLY UNSAFE during pregnancy. (medlineplus.gov)
There is some concern that bee pollen might stimulate the uterus and threaten the pregnancy. (medlineplus.gov)
There isn't enough reliable information to know if bee pollen is safe to use when breast-feeding. (medlineplus.gov)
Bee pollen might increase the effects of warfarin (Coumadin). (medlineplus.gov)
Taking bee pollen with warfarin (Coumadin) might result in an increased chance of bruising or bleeding. (medlineplus.gov)
The appropriate dose of bee pollen depends on several factors such as the user's age, health, and several other conditions. (medlineplus.gov)
At this time there is not enough scientific information to determine an appropriate range of doses for bee pollen. (medlineplus.gov)
Naseri L, Khazaei MR, Khazaei M. Potential therapeutic effect of bee pollen and metformin combination on testosterone and estradiol levels, apoptotic markers and total antioxidant capacity in a rat model of polycystic ovary syndrome. (medlineplus.gov)
Bee pollen as a promising agent in the burn wounds treatment. (medlineplus.gov)
Nonotte-Varly C. Allergenicity of Artemisia contained in bee pollen is proportional to its mass. (medlineplus.gov)
Münstedt K, Voss B, Kullmer U, Schneider U, Hübner J. Bee pollen and honey for the alleviation of hot flushes and other menopausal symptoms in breast cancer patients. (medlineplus.gov)
Williams' team also found that bees always collected pollen from both crops and native plants. (innovations-report.com)
Since crop fields aren't in bloom for the entire bee active season, Williams says, the bees need an adequate alternative source of nectar and pollen, and may travel several kilometers to find it. (innovations-report.com)
Honey bees are often characterized by the dense hairs covering their bodies and the pollen baskets located on their hind legs. (osu.edu)
Bees look for flowers that contain nectar and pollen, such as the aster, black-eyed-susan, goldenrod, sage and huckleberry. (reference.com)
How bumble bees trick plants into flowering early Jump to media player It's the first time scientists have observed this behaviour, which bees do when pollen is scarce. (bbc.co.uk)
The practice is used by the bees when pollen is scarce. (bbc.co.uk)
bee bread is reserved for the original bee pollen stored in the nests or the combs. (wikimedia.org)
It's made by honey bees and wild bees with pollen balls, nectar, and enzymes. (wikimedia.org)
Bees are closely related to certain types of wasps , the principal biological difference between them being that bees (except for parasitic bees) provide their young with a mixture of pollen and honey , whereas wasps feed their young animal food or provision their nests with insects or spiders. (britannica.com)
Associated with this difference in food preference are certain structural differences, the most essential being that wasps are covered with unbranched hairs, whereas bees have at least a few branched or feathered hairs to which pollen often clings. (britannica.com)
Bees are entirely dependent on flowers for food, which consists of pollen and nectar , the latter sometimes modified and stored as honey. (britannica.com)
As bees go from flower to flower gathering pollen, a small amount is rubbed from their bodies and deposited on the flowers they visit. (britannica.com)
Male bees are usually short-lived and never collect pollen, nor do they have other responsibilities in connection with providing for the young. (britannica.com)
Female bees do all the work of nest making and provisioning and usually have special anatomical structures that assist them in carrying pollen. (britannica.com)
Most bees are polylectic, meaning that they gather pollen from a wide variety of flowers. (britannica.com)
However, some bees collect pollen only from flowers of certain families, others from flowers of certain colours. (britannica.com)
Oligolectic bees gather pollen from only a few related kinds of flowers. (britannica.com)
The mouth parts of bees, like the pollen-collecting and pollen-carrying devices, seem to be adapted to different flowers. (britannica.com)
Whole dried bee venom may be contaminated with pollen, feces, dust, nectar or honey. (ibiblio.org)

Like all animals, bees get sick, and like all farmers, beekeepers will do whatever is necessary to keep their bees healthy and cure or prevent any problems. (huffingtonpost.com)
To keep their baby bees from liquifying, beekeepers began to use antibiotics. (huffingtonpost.com)
To keep their bees alive, beekeepers started feeding sugar solutions to bees, including high fructose corn syrup. (huffingtonpost.com)
In 2006, many beekeepers across the USA began to report high losses of bees. (huffingtonpost.com)
Researchers have been working for well over a decade to enhance the health of pollinators and now beekeepers, citizen scientists, and anyone interested in pollinator health can join in using a new online tool, Beescape . (usda.gov)
The larvae and pupae in a frame of honeycomb are referred to as frames of brood and are often sold (with adhering bees) by beekeepers to other beekeepers to start new beehives. (redorbit.com)
Bee losses are ranging from 30 to 60 percent on the West Coast, but some beekeepers on the East Coast and in Texas are reporting losses of over 70 percent. (treehugger.com)
The Capital Bee campaign , part of a larger push to create 2012 community food growing spaces in the city by the 2012 Olympics, is also training 50 community beekeepers. (fastcompany.com)
In the past beekeepers have seen these empty cells as undesirable and have attempted to breed queens that did not leave them empty, but Professor Tautz now claims they are an essential part of ensuring the health of a bee colony. (telegraph.co.uk)
Despite their importance, the government's department for environment, food and rural affairs (Defra) has given little priority to bee health and failed to get beekeepers to report on colony health, the report said. (reuters.com)
Success in tackling disease incidence in honey bees and livestock will require the department to work more collaboratively with farmers, beekeepers and leading academic researchers in these areas," the report by parliament's Committee of Public Accounts said. (reuters.com)
Buy local honey to support your local bees and beekeepers. (philly.com)
Beekeepers do, in some cases, feed their bees supplemental sugar at times when nectar is not plentiful. (snopes.com)
Some beekeepers use nutritional supplements to add these crucial nutrients to their supplemental bee feedings, but this is another area in which professionals urge caution. (snopes.com)
It is beekeepers' responsibility to maintain healthy and good quality bees which means continue with a programme of research into honey bee health, honey bee genetics and the health of the landscape in which we keep them. (bbc.co.uk)
With a legislated and enforced registration process still far off for California beekeepers, they rely largely on tips, the honesty of bee brokers and the hard work of Detective Freeman. (washingtonpost.com)
Not acting now, in 2014, threatens to put the bees (and many beekeepers) out of business. (rabble.ca)
This contributes to the concern to beekeepers, growers of insect-pollinated crops, and policy-makers over recent widespread declines in honey bee populations (Colony Collapse Disorder) [ 4 - 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
The beekeepers captured one queen bee and recovered more than 100 kilograms of honeycomb, which is expected to be made into candles. (metafilter.com)
Busy time for beekeepers during lockdown Jump to media player No evidence of social distancing as swarm of bees discovered in Shropshire village. (bbc.co.uk)

The US Department of Agriculture has indicated in a report to Congress that a combination of factors may be causing colony collapse disorder, including pesticides, pathogens, and parasites, all of which have been found at high levels in affected bee hives. (wikipedia.org)
VAE's March installation features Bee Downtown's honey bee hives. (redhat.com)
They install and maintain groups of beehives, custom painted by local artists, at landmark locations in urban locations where bees thrive, while simultaneously providing green initiatives for businesses that sponsor each of their hives. (redhat.com)
Eusocial bees live in large hives, each of which has a single queen, together with workers and drones. (redorbit.com)
Other than that they make honey (and surprise: only a few species of bees can provide us harvestable honey), and live in hives? (beliefnet.com)
Honey bees precisely control the temperature inside their hives to determine which job their young will perform in the colony when mature, new research has revealed. (telegraph.co.uk)
The secret of honey bees' success has been discovered living deep inside their hives - a special type of bee which acts like a living radiator, warming the nest and controlling the colony's complex social structure. (telegraph.co.uk)
According to a previous study, England's bees are vanishing faster than anywhere else in Europe, with more than half of hives dying out over the last 20 years. (telegraph.co.uk)
Other related viruses have also been linked to CCD hives, including Kashmir bee virus (KBV) and deformed wing virus (DWV). (scienceblogs.com)
Led by researcher Daniel Favre, the alarming study found that bees reacted significantly to cell phones that were placed near or in hives in call-making mode. (inhabitat.com)
In their experiments, Graystock and his colleagues allowed one species of bee (honey bees or bumblebees) from hives containing parasites to forage on flowers for three hours. (eurekalert.org)
The work shows that bees living in trees and those living in hives are a cross population,' he said. (bbc.co.uk)
There are labelling requirements for bee equipment, but even Detective Freeman admits that many keepers don't brand all of their hives. (washingtonpost.com)
None of Pendell's hives have been stolen yet, but she said it's something that's constantly on her mind. (washingtonpost.com)
And I didn't know anything about bees or hives or pollination. (washingtonpost.com)
The honeybee crisis has galvanized interest in pollinators, inspiring citizens to establish new spaces, from wild bee hotels and rooftop honeybee hives to pollinator gardens in parks and schoolyards. (rabble.ca)
These types of chemicals are known neurotoxins, causing bees to become disoriented and unable to return to their hives. (independent.com)
Multiple factors contribute to colony collapse disorder, including global warming, mishandling bee hives, and diseases. (independent.com)
Inspect your hives when the weather starts to cool and make sure that your bees have enough honey stored to make it through the winter. (tractorsupply.com)

Bees are fuzzy insects that feed on flowers. (kidshealth.org)
If you think you have been stung by one of these insects, tell an adult immediately . (kidshealth.org)
If you know you are allergic to bees or other insects, you'll want to take extra steps to avoid getting bitten or stung. (kidshealth.org)
Our results shed light on a further level of regulation of the immune response in insects and have implications for bee conservation. (pnas.org)
Here, we demonstrate that the neonicotinoid insecticide clothianidin negatively modulates NF-κB immune signaling in insects and adversely affects honey bee antiviral defenses controlled by this transcription factor. (pnas.org)
Charles Darwin in his 1862 book 'The Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects' discussed this and other bizarre pollination relationships, which 'trick' bees into visiting and therefore pollinating them. (fed.us)
Neonicotinoids are especially likely to cause cumulative effects on bees due to their mechanism of function as this pesticide group works by binding to nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the brains of the insects, and such receptors are particularly abundant in bees. (wikipedia.org)
Some insects (particularly Africanized Honey Bees) are known to hover above the water, continuing to sting once you surface for air. (cdc.gov)
Bees (Apoidea superfamily) are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. (redorbit.com)
Minnesota's governor on Friday ordered the broadest restrictions yet in a U.S. state on the use of agricultural pesticides that have been blamed for hurting bees, fueling concerns that farmers there will not be able to protect crops from insects. (japantimes.co.jp)
Britain faces a food crisis within a generation due to the decline of honey bees, according to the leading thinkers in a new Government project to solve the mystery of why insects are vanishing from the countryside. (telegraph.co.uk)
The situation is so serious that the government has launched a £10 million project to find out what is causing bees and other insects to disappear. (telegraph.co.uk)
Carpenter bees are large, black and yellow insects which closely mirror bumblebees. (wikihow.com)
Both carpenter bees and bumblebees are large, intimidating insects with black and yellow markings. (wikihow.com)
Bumblebees are social insects and protect their nest or other bees when threatened. (wikihow.com)
Feeding bees sugar is also not likely to be that much help to those insects, either. (snopes.com)
About 30% of our food depends on bees and other pollinating insects. (rabble.ca)
Bees and other insects are crucial players in a plant's sex life. (latimes.com)
Be sure to remove dead bees as well as the comb to prevent reinfestation, as the odor of honey comb and wax is attractive to other honey bees and insects. (osu.edu)
Many species of animals eat honey bees including other insects, amphibians, birds and mammals. (reference.com)
Bee , (superfamily Apoidea), any of more than 20,000 species of insects in the suborder Apocrita (order Hymenoptera), including the familiar honeybee ( Apis ) and bumblebee ( Bombus and Psithyrus ) as well as thousands more wasplike and flylike bees. (britannica.com)

Wasps and many bees can sting more than once because they are able to pull out their stinger without injuring themselves. (kidshealth.org)
Bees, wasps, and hornets are most abundant in the warmer months. (cdc.gov)
Bees, wasps, and hornets are found throughout the United States. (cdc.gov)
What Kills Bees and Wasps? (ehow.com)
Eliminate pesky wasps and bees from your property. (ehow.com)
Having a mass amount of wasps or bees in your backyard can be both annoying and dangerous. (ehow.com)
There are several ways to rid your property of bees and wasps. (ehow.com)
Insect sprays can work well to kill individual bees or wasps. (ehow.com)
One kind kills bees and wasps on contact. (ehow.com)
If you are against using insect spray or pesticides, you can attempt to kill bees and wasps with a home remedy. (ehow.com)
Although there is no way of stopping nature, you can attempt to make your yard a place where bees and wasps don't want to hang out. (ehow.com)
The vast majority of telephone calls on household pests fielded by the Shibuya Ward Office's Public Hygiene Division in 2014 were not about rats, cockroaches or spiders but they involved something with a little more sting in its tail - hornets, wasps and bees. (japantimes.co.jp)
Here is her take on the different types of bees - plus wasps, and a fly that mimics bees - that you're most likely to encounter in your vegetable or ornamental garden, no matter where in the U.S. you live. (treehugger.com)
Honey bees are only capable of stinging once, while the more aggressive yellowjackets and wasps can sting multiple times. (osu.edu)
How do you identify bees, wasps and hornets? (reference.com)
Several types of wasps and spiders specialize in hunting bees. (reference.com)

Gegear's research is focused on wild bee populations. (newsweek.com)
Actual damage to bee populations is a function of toxicity and exposure of the compound, in combination with the mode of application. (wikipedia.org)
The survey collects data on bee health to understand long term trends, factors that drive bee health, ways to safeguard bee populations in the United States. (usda.gov)
Bee populations in North America have been in decline since the 1940s. (usda.gov)
Populations of bees have experienced severe declines that are largely attributed to the loss of habitat. (usda.gov)
Bee Downtown's innovative approach uses cities, and the businesses in them, to collaboratively rebuild healthy honey bee populations. (redhat.com)
And while the parasite may be causing immense damage to the honey bees population, there is an upside to their discovery, according to the Mirror, "Scientists discovered the parasite by accident but they believe it may help them discover what is causing colony collapse disorder which is devastating honey bees in Europe and America cutting some populations in half. (yahoo.com)
However, reduced use of pesticides with insect resistant GM crops and reduced tillage that is possible with herbicide resistant crops could be beneficial to bee populations compared to conventional agriculture. (springer.com)
A top European Union court upheld on Thursday (17 May) the ban on three insecticides blamed for killing off bee populations, dismissing cases brought by chemicals giants Bayer and Syngenta. (euractiv.com)
The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted. (japantimes.co.jp)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Disease spread to wild bees from commercially bred bees used for pollination in agriculture greenhouses may be playing a role in the mysterious decline in North American bee populations, researchers said on Tuesday. (reuters.com)
Scientists have been struggling to understand the recent decline in various bee populations in North America. (reuters.com)
The model predicted a relatively slow build-up of infection in nearby wild bumblebee populations over weeks or months culminating in a burst of transmission generating an epidemic wave that could affect nearly all of wild bees exposed. (reuters.com)
The researchers then sampled wild bumblebee populations around the greenhouses, catching bees in butterfly nets, holding them in vials and taking them back to a laboratory to screen for pathogens, including testing their feces. (reuters.com)
8. The risks facing bee populations and other pollinators is just one of the many threats to Earth's biodiversity and to the biosphere - the region of Earth where life exists. (weforum.org)
In comparison, if the island bees adopted the breeding habits of fire ants, with queens mating with a single male, inbreeding could wreck the off-shore claves or distinct populations of bees. (redorbit.com)
The facts are pretty clear: bee populations are in freefall. (rabble.ca)
John Bennett, of the Sierra Club of Canada, talks about the club's call on the Federal Government to ban pesticides that prove fatal to bee populations. (rabble.ca)
In recent years, however, an unprecedented and unexplained decline in bee populations across the U.S. and Europe has placed the health of ecosystems and the sustainability of crops in peril. (innovations-report.com)
She found that in areas of extreme fragmentation due to human development, animal grazing, logging and crop fields, bee populations were smaller and the number of bee species was lower than in natural or minimally disturbed areas. (innovations-report.com)
Yet, even in response to the U.K. study showing neonicotinoids are linked to declines in wild bee populations, Bayer is making excuses. (mercola.com)

But according to a 2016 paper in Conservation Biology , while such efforts may sound beneficial, they may actually be exacerbating another significant problem-the decline of native bee species, such as bumblebees, of which there are around 4,000 in North America. (newsweek.com)
So when they talk about conservation and "Save the Bees" in that context, they only care that they have one pollinator species to replace honeybee losses, but they don't care about diversity. (newsweek.com)
The gorgeous metallic-green sweat bee (genus Agapostemon) in the picture to the right was photographed visiting a wild rose flower on the Wyoming prairie, but she could as readily have been snapped visiting any of five or even ten other flower species on that single foraging trip. (fed.us)
Social bees solve this problem by having individual workers specialize on different plant species, rather than generalize. (fed.us)
Several of these nominal taxa have been treated as separate species. (nhm.ac.uk)
Living in the rainforests of the New World are 250 species of the world's most flamboyant bees. (fed.us)
Along with 22 other species of introduced bees, an orchid bee ( Euglossa viridissima ) has become naturalized in several areas of Florida where it now routinely visits orchids, other flowers and scent resources. (fed.us)
There is another honey bee, Apis cerana, native to Asia, but A. mellifera is the more common species worldwide. (huffingtonpost.com)
Across the globe, native bee species are having trouble. (usda.gov)
Frank Parker's fascination lies with the 30,000 wild bee species that buzz the planet, about 4,000 of which are native to the United States. (nwf.org)
An inveterate collector known to colleagues as "Bring-'em-back-on-pins Parker," he has found hundreds of new bee species in the United States and Latin America. (nwf.org)
Subsequent trips with his staff revealed that at least 331 bee species live here, 69 of which don't occur anywhere else. (nwf.org)
Afterwards, we visit the site of a bee species with a unique home. (nwf.org)
Thousands of a recently discovered species of mining bees have chewed their way about nine inches into the side of a sandstone wall, making it look like an enormous sponge. (nwf.org)
Although the females of most bee species have stingers, bees tend to be less aggressive the less social they are. (nwf.org)
Bumblebees are referred to as quasisocial because the queen bee is typically able to survive on her own for at least a short time (unlike queens in eusocial species who must be cared for at all times). (redorbit.com)
After about a week (depending on species), the larva is sealed up in its cell by the nurse bees. (redorbit.com)
After another week (again, depending on species), it will emerge an adult bee. (redorbit.com)
Genetically modified crops which have opened new avenues of species alteration has been accompanied by concerns of their adverse effects on nontarget organisms such as bees. (springer.com)
Personally speaking, a new species always delights the soul and two new stingless bees can't get up anyone's nose. (earthtimes.org)
David Roubik, STRI staff scientist discovered a new species of forest bee that has only been found on Coiba and Rancheria Islands. (earthtimes.org)
The new bee species from Panama's Coiba Island, Melipona insularis, is a larger bee with fuzzy yellow hairs on its abdomen. (earthtimes.org)
The bees seem to win the argument for the geologists, but I'm plain glad to see all new species at a time when we're losing so many. (earthtimes.org)
For several years, excitement has been building over the Atlantic presence of Manta birostris and Manta cf birostris/ this is the classification system trying to tell us of a potential new species that is related to genus Manta. (earthtimes.org)
Little progress has been made on this W. Atlantic species of oceanic manta, but it can t be long before we can confirm new knowledge of parenting and juvenile growth in at least the main species, which seems to live alongside the potential new manta. (earthtimes.org)
1. Almost 90% of wild plant species and over 75% of crops we use for food depend in part on pollination by bees, butterflies and other animals. (weforum.org)
In Europe, there is evidence that 9% of bee and butterfly species are threatened - but "this is probably an underestimate," says Potts. (weforum.org)
One of the hardest workers is the honey bee, a non-native species. (philly.com)
Ultimately, the data could help gardeners and land managers select better plant species to better foster good bee health. (philly.com)
Both the flower and bee species play a role in how likely parasite dispersal will occur. (eurekalert.org)
With some 20,000 bee species, it is a surprise that only recently has research in pollinator health considered the interactions between bee species," Graystock said. (eurekalert.org)
Although they are important for agriculture, honey bees also destabilize natural ecosystems by competing with native bees-some of which are species at risk. (scientificamerican.com)
But as a species, honey bees are least in need of saving. (scientificamerican.com)
Honey bees are extreme generalist foragers and monopolize floral resources, thus leading to exploitative competition-that is, where one species uses up a resource, not leaving enough to go around. (scientificamerican.com)
Sex pheromones of bees may be produced by either males or females, depending on the species' mating system, and may attract the opposite sex over long and/or short distances. (uni-ulm.de)
The undisputed queen of these animal pollinators is the bee, made up of about 30,000 species worldwide, whose daily flights aid in the reproduction of more than half of the world's flowering plants. (innovations-report.com)
His model, he says, could help scientists understand how land disturbance caused by humans affects bee species richness and density. (innovations-report.com)
We should not allow pesticide companies to get away with destroying our food supply and killing bee species for the sake of profit. (independent.com)
The study involved 18 years of U.K. wild bee distribution data for 62 species, which were compared to amounts of neonicotinoid use in oilseed rape, a crop grown to produce canola oil. (mercola.com)

To find out more about why native bees have been overlooked and the potential implications of this, Newsweek spoke to Robert Gegear a professor with Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Department of Biology and Biotechnology, in Massachusetts. (newsweek.com)
The honeybee is really driving the show when it comes to these strategies, and the problem is that we're completely neglecting native bees. (newsweek.com)
And some are vital to our nation's economy: Scientists estimate that native bees perform as much as $6.7 billion worth of pollination annually in the United States. (nwf.org)
Few people know more about native bees than Parker. (nwf.org)
And native bees - which don't give us honey - do all those other things far better than the honey bees the first colonials brought over. (beliefnet.com)
Now I'm working on native bees, looking up what they need, how they live. (beliefnet.com)
People mistakenly think keeping honey bees, or helping honey bees, is somehow helping the native bees, which are at risk of extinction. (scientificamerican.com)
She is justifiably frustrated at the misappropriated attention on saving honey bees when, from a conservationist's point of view, native bees are the ones in more dire need of support. (scientificamerican.com)
And while honey bee-centric businesses often support initiatives that benefit native bees, such as developing bee-friendly habitat, the financial contributions pale in comparison to what could be achieved if funds were applied to these initiatives directly. (scientificamerican.com)
It is possible, for example, that alternate foraging habits of native bees-differences in their active times of day or preferred plants, for example-could lead to little effective competition. (scientificamerican.com)

Eulaema are as large as carpenter bees or bumblebee queens, densely black in coloration and densely hairy, but often with wide yellow, orange, or greenish stripes on the abdomen. (fed.us)
Carpenter bees get their common name due to the females' habit of excavating galleries in wood to create nest sites for their young. (osu.edu)
Large carpenter bees belong to the genus Xylocopa . (osu.edu)
A number of native carpenter bees also occur in the western United States. (osu.edu)
Carpenter bees are large (~three-quarters- to 1-inch long) and robust. (osu.edu)
Carpenter bees have a dense brush of hairs on their hind legs. (osu.edu)
Carpenter bees resemble bumble bees as they are similar in size except for their head, with the bumble bee's head being much narrower than the width of the thorax. (osu.edu)
Numerous carpenter bees often occupy the same piece of wood, with nest galleries occurring close to each other (Figure 2), but each carpenter bee behaves independently of the other bees. (osu.edu)
Male and female carpenter bees emerge in the spring (April and early May) and mate. (osu.edu)
Carpenter bees avoid wood that is well painted or covered with bark, but they can nest in a wide variety of wood products, including fence posts, utility poles, firewood, arbors, and patio furniture. (osu.edu)
While bumblebees can sting but are otherwise harmless, carpenter bees sting but can damage wooden structures. (wikihow.com)
Keep an eye out for distinctive features of carpenter bees and wood damage so you can nip infestations in the bud before they get out of control. (wikihow.com)
Unlike male bumblebees, male carpenter bees lack a stinger. (wikihow.com)
Female carpenter bees do have a stinger but have a docile temperament. (wikihow.com)
Because female carpenter bees burrow into the wood, you will mostly come in contact with male bees. (wikihow.com)
Rule out carpenter bees if you see external nests. (wikihow.com)
Carpenter bees burrow into the wood (hence the name "carpenter"), where females create various chambers to lay eggs and raise larvae. (wikihow.com)
Bee size can vary depending on the climate and location, but carpenter bees are usually slightly larger than bumblebees. (wikihow.com)
Because of this difference in size, carpenter bees often look more formidable than other bees despite their lower likelihood to sting. (wikihow.com)
Neither bumblebees or carpenter bees are particularly fond of humans. (wikihow.com)
Unlike bumblebees, however, carpenter bees are less wary of building their nests near humans. (wikihow.com)
Carpenter bees are more solitary. (wikihow.com)
Bees that gather in groups are more likely to be bumblebees, though carpenter bees can become territorial once their larvae is hatched. (wikihow.com)
Although male carpenter bees are virtually harmless to humans, male bees will become aggressive when threatened or when threatening creatures enter their territory. (wikihow.com)
Often, carpenter bees will hover closely around humans who near their nests in an attempt to scare them away. (wikihow.com)
Despite their belligerency, carpenter bees are extremely unlikely to injure humans due to the male's lack of a stinger. (wikihow.com)
Carpenter bees will return from hibernation in late April or early May, depending on the temperature. (wikihow.com)
Males are the first to appear, as female carpenter bees spend most of the early months laying eggs and caring for larvae. (wikihow.com)
Carpenter bees burrow in softwood and will rarely be found in living trees. (wikihow.com)
Check for carpenter bees in the eastern and southern United States. (wikihow.com)
Carpenter bees are not indigenous everywhere. (wikihow.com)
Carpenter bees are also indigenous to countries with similar climates to the southern and eastern United States. (wikihow.com)
Female carpenter bees use their teeth to make their nests, and softwood expends less energy. (wikihow.com)
They can be confused with carpenter bees, but Griffin says there's an easy way to tell the difference: Carpenter bees are noticeably larger than bumblebees. (treehugger.com)
Carpenter bees, for instance, have a broad head, whereas bumblebees have a smaller head. (treehugger.com)
Bumblebees also have more hair on their abdomens than carpenter bees. (treehugger.com)
Large carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa ) are wood-nesting generalist pollinators of broad geographical distribution that exhibit varying levels of sociality. (hindawi.com)
Carpenter bees have demonstrated efficient pollination service in passionflower, blueberries, greenhouse tomatoes and greenhouse melons. (hindawi.com)
Large carpenter bees belong to the tribe Xylocopini within the subfamily Xylocopinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae). (hindawi.com)
Carpenter bees occur in tropical and subtropical habitats around the world, and occasionally in temperate areas [ 16 ]. (hindawi.com)
As implied by their name, carpenter bees dig their nests in dead or decaying wood, except for the subgenus Proxylocopa that nests in the soil [ 17 ]. (hindawi.com)
The wood-nesting carpenter bees construct two main types of nests: (i) unbranched (also called linear), with tunnels extending in either one or both directions from the nest entrance. (hindawi.com)
Maternal care in carpenter bees also involves guarding of the immature offspring and feeding of the newly matured ones by trophallaxis [ 20 - 22 ]. (hindawi.com)
How do you identify carpenter bees? (reference.com)

Humans have been collecting honey from Apis mellifera , the Western honey bee, for millennia. (huffingtonpost.com)
Bailey J, Scott-Dupree C, Harris R, Tolman J, Harris B (2005) Contact and oral toxicity to honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) of agents registered for use for sweet corn insect control in Ontario, Canada. (springer.com)
Here we show that honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) can adaptively alter their behavior in a choice test in response to trial difficulty. (pnas.org)
To explore this issue, we examined how honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) responded to a visual discrimination task that varied in difficulty between trials. (pnas.org)
Apis mellifera mellifera, the European honey bee is widely used in commerical bee keeping in the United States, and originates from Western Europe. (scienceblogs.com)
There is the Italian honey bee, Apis mellifera liguistica, which is thought to be native to Southern Europe. (scienceblogs.com)
The Russian honey bee, Apis mellifera caucasica, is thought to be the best subspecies in terms of varroa mite resistance, and some of the USDA bee labs are looking into that right now. (scienceblogs.com)
Nosema apis (causes a honey bee disease), Nosema ceranae (causes an emergent disease in honey bees and bumblebees ), Crithidia bombi (causes a bumblebee disease) and Apicystis bombi (mostly found in bumblebees). (eurekalert.org)
Wild and domesticated non- Apis bees effectively complement honey bee pollination in many crops [ 7 , 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
Alarm Pheromones of the Queen and Worker Honey Bees ( Apis Mellifera L. (springer.com)
Protein Traffic Between Body Compartments of the Female Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera L. (springer.com)

Not deaths, but losses: the worker bees would just vanish, leaving the queen and brood behind. (huffingtonpost.com)
At this time the queen bee is the one who does all the work because there are no worker bees to do the work yet. (redorbit.com)
The queen deposits each egg in a cell prepared by the worker bees. (redorbit.com)
The egg hatches into a small larva which is fed by nurse bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). (redorbit.com)
In bees, though, they are responsible for creating females (worker bees), fertile males (that mate with the queen) or infertile males (diploid males which serve no purpose). (redorbit.com)
During the course of the summer months, they found that the further a colony was from natural areas, the fewer worker bees it sustained. (innovations-report.com)
After a long day buzzing between flowers, even the most industrious worker bee could use a little help remembering which ones she wants to return to the next day. (slashdot.org)

Now the government is spending billions to clean up the mess and the do-gooders have moved on to save the bees by banning pesticides. (washingtontimes.com)
The rise in hobby beekeeping , now a trendy activity for hundreds of thousands of Americans, followed strong awareness campaigns to "save the bees. (scientificamerican.com)
Emma Whitson is a junior at UC Santa Barbara and the Save the Bees Campaign Coordinator for CALPIRG. (independent.com)

The biggest bee problem was foulbrood , a bacterial disease where the larvae (baby bees) turn into a disgusting, brown goop. (huffingtonpost.com)
The varroa mite latches onto bee larvae, sucking bee blood and leaving open wounds. (thedailybeast.com)
Those kept at 34 degrees C emerge as "house keeper" bees, conducting chores such as feeding the larvae and cleaning the nest. (telegraph.co.uk)
Image via ©Entomart [Wikipedia] The blister beetle spreads its larvae with the help of digger bees (pictured above) in what is called a honeytrap. (neatorama.com)
The larvae cling together and form the shape of a female digger bee while emitting bee pheromones. (neatorama.com)
A male digger bee will then approach the trap and attempt to mate with it, giving the larvae a chance to cling onto his chest hairs and hitch a ride to an actual mate. (neatorama.com)
Bee bread is the primary source of protein for the larvae. (wikimedia.org)

3. Scientists are recording a decline in wild bees and other wild pollinators, particularly in north western Europe and North America. (weforum.org)
Melissa [Gr.,=bee] officinalis, also called lemon balm, was introduced to North America from the Mediterranean area, where it has long been cultivated for its lemonlike odor and flavor and, formerly, as a curative for many ailments. (encyclopedia.com)

Everybody, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), knows that neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees. (organicconsumers.org)
Available information suggests that crops transformed with genes coding for Bt proteins donot harm bees. (springer.com)
How Do Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees? (mercola.com)
How Do Neonicotionids Harm Bees? (mercola.com)
The newer collector devices and methods are safe and do not harm bees. (ibiblio.org)

The assessment, also the first from the new Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), created in 2012, paints a comprehensive picture of the decline in pollinators such as bees and butterflies. (weforum.org)
Entomologists and agriculture experts have long been aware of the decline of many pollinators, including bees. (philly.com)
As it is unlikely that the world will learn to forgo the convenience of cell phones, it is unclear how much they will contribute to the decline of bees, and their impact on the environment. (inhabitat.com)
In this oral session, scientists turn their attention to native, wild bees to determine whether they are undergoing - or might undergo - the same decline. (innovations-report.com)
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled Thursday a new pesticide label that prohibits the use of some pesticide products where bees are present, a step to help with the sharp decline in recent years of the insect vital to pollinating crops and producing honey. (organicconsumers.org)
In May, the EPA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture found a series of factors are responsible for the decline in honey bees, including loss of habitat, parasites and disease, genetics, poor nutrition and pesticide exposure. (organicconsumers.org)

Brown remains uninfected as far as scientists can tell , and no HIV has been detected in the London patient's blood for 18 months, save for one blip of viral DNA that researchers studying the man suspect was a false signal. (sciencemag.org)
Agencies such as the EPA [5] and EFSA [6] are making action plans to protect bee health in response to calls from scientists and the public to ban or limit the use of the pesticides with confirmed toxicity. (wikipedia.org)
Scientists are still figuring out exactly how the parasite works, but an early theory by San Francisco State Professor John Hafernik holds that the parasite changes the bees' "body clocks," which causes their erratic behavior and deaths. (yahoo.com)
With scientists unable to solve the great honeybee die-out, the search for alternate pollinators is on-and killer bees are proving the most resilient, and terrifying, of the bunch. (thedailybeast.com)
Scientists have come to Brussels to warn policymakers of the negative impact of pesticides on bees as the Commission prepares to propose a full ban on neonicotinoids. (euractiv.com)
The scientists discovered that the heater bees work to subtly change the temperature of each developing pupae by around a degree and this small change determines what kind of honey bee it will become. (telegraph.co.uk)
From all those data, the scientists recreated the bees' journeys and modeled them mathematically - and discovered that they may be employing a relatively simple method to find the most efficient route between the flowers. (wired.com)
As Wimbledon kicks off, scientists warned that a lack of insect pollinators could even cause "wonky strawberries" as fruit that has not been fertilised properly cannot grow. (telegraph.co.uk)
Eager to avert the economic catastrophe that a bee-less world, scientists have been trying to find the cause behind the collapse. (scienceblogs.com)
Scientists may have found the cause of the world's sudden dwindling population of bees - and cell phones may be to blame. (inhabitat.com)
In an oral session at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, an interdisciplinary group of scientists will explore the problem of bee habitat loss at a broad scale to determine what can be done to preserve bees in their native habitats. (innovations-report.com)
Scientists are also using technological methods to further understand bee communities. (innovations-report.com)
Scientists have some eye-opening news for you: Bees get a buzz when they drink nectar laced with a little caffeine, and it supercharges their long-term memory. (latimes.com)
Ten minutes after the training ended, the scientists put the bees through their first memory test. (latimes.com)
By studying the social network within a bee colony, scientists hope to bolster the crime-fighting abilities of law enforcement officials. (upi.com)
Scientists at Granada decided to study bee colony organization and behavior -- and the flow of information among different types of bees -- as a model for understanding harmful social networks. (upi.com)
The scientists looked at the effect of low levels of manganese, a common industrial pollutant, on the behavior of honey bees. (eurekalert.org)
Humans can actually translate the waggle dance and scientists can actually track down a specific flower that one bee mentions to another while under observation. (neatorama.com)
With colony collapse disorder rates increasing all the time while scientists argue about the cause, the entire bee population -and our food supply is at risk. (neatorama.com)
Scientists have observed for the first time bumble bees tricking plants into flowering early. (bbc.co.uk)
Scientists also use bee venom or its components in their research of the effects of the whole or separated components of the venom. (ibiblio.org)

There are thousands of different types of bees worldwide, and they can be many different colors. (kidshealth.org)
To understand why bees typically don't sting, Griffin says it helps to recognize and understand the behavior of different types of bees. (treehugger.com)

Without bees, certain crops (most notably almonds) could not be produced. (huffingtonpost.com)
Alaska saw increases in the number of farms with cut flowers, hogs, layers, vegetables, bees and honey, bedding plants, food crops grown under cover and more. (usda.gov)
Bee pollination is responsible for $15+ billion in added crop value -- particularly for specialty crops such as almonds and other nuts, berries, fruits, and vegetables. (usda.gov)
This is of great concern to the agriculture industry because about 75 percent of specialty crops depend on the services of pollinators - of which bees are the most economically important. (usda.gov)
The bee losses are especially distressing in light of a study last year that concluded that pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35 percent of the world's crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide. (treehugger.com)
Similarly, herbicide resistant crops are not likely to pose direct toxicity to bees yet greater weed control in herbicide resistant crops may be responsible foe lower bee abundance in these crops than the non transformed ones. (springer.com)
Canadian researchers studied another type of bee, the bumblebee, near two large greenhouse operations in southern Ontario where commercially reared pollination bees are used in the growing of crops such as tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers. (reuters.com)
Professor Jane Memmot, of the Univerisity of Bristol, will look at whether bees are more suited to an urban environment than the "monoculture" of large swathes of crops in the countryside. (telegraph.co.uk)
Bees, butterflies and moths play an essential role in putting food on out tables through the pollination of many vital crops. (telegraph.co.uk)
If you are going to help save bees, go organic with all of your supplements, avoid all pesticides and genetically modified crops. (care2.com)
Bees, as noted in the fake Attenborough post, are a vitally important resource on which our modern agricultural food system wholly depends , thanks to their crucial role in pollinating food crops. (snopes.com)
Bees are an integral and necessary part of our agricultural and ecological systems, producing honey, and more importantly pollinating our crops. (inhabitat.com)
If bees die, many food crops won't get pollinated. (rabble.ca)
Crucially, our model is able to predict the behavior of bees in larger-scale foraging environments, where the foraging patches can be thought of as large fields of crops," says Chalk. (innovations-report.com)
While bees that forage on oilseed rape have historically benefited from its availability, according to the researchers, once the crops are treated with neonicotinoids (as up to 85 percent of England's oilseed rape crops are) they have detrimental impacts on the bees. (mercola.com)
The European Union has since 2014 had a moratorium on use of neonicotinoids - made and sold by various companies including Bayer and Syngenta - after lab research pointed to potential risks for bees, crucial for pollinating crops. (yahoo.com)

David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees. (treehugger.com)
Urban beekeeper using bee sounds and honey to make experimental mus. (treehugger.com)
Beekeeper Andy Westrichwas called to remove and relocate the bees to a safe place. (cnn.com)
Griffin teaches classes on bees to children and adults through the Center for Urban Agriculture at the University of Georgia Extension's Northwest District and is a certified beekeeper in Cherokee County, Georgia. (treehugger.com)
And buy honey, or other bee products, from a local beekeeper. (kqed.org)
The easiest way to begin beekeeping is to purchase our Just Add Bee Backyard Beekeeper Kit. (tractorsupply.com)

Bee, or honeybee, is the word many people use to describe any flying insect that has wings and a stinger. (kidshealth.org)
The most familiar kind of bee is the honeybee. (kidshealth.org)
In recent years, a significant amount of attention has been paid to the numerous threats that are facing the honeybee. (newsweek.com)
For example, a virus brought from Australia has been implicated in massive honeybee deaths last year. (reuters.com)
Most of these native pollinators haven't been recorded with honeybee viruses before, according to Diana Cox-Foster of Pennsylvania State University in University Park. (wired.com)

Want to Help Bees? (usda.gov)
Join the Pollinator Action Team, Help Bees and Other Pollinators! (care2.com)

Learning in halictid bees has not been studied, but their ability to forage indiscriminately may signal that they are the unrecognized geniuses of the bee world. (fed.us)
They trained the bees to forage nectar from five blue artificial flowers (see video). (wired.com)
Then, every day for a month, each bee was freed to forage for 7 hours. (wired.com)
Seeing the bees forage in the wild was entirely different. (wired.com)
Image: A wild bee (the bumblebee, Bombus vosnesenskii ) and a honey bee forage together on a sunflower. (wired.com)
His model is useful because it can predict how bees would forage, or look for food resources, in different landscapes. (innovations-report.com)

The Bees were reformed to compete in the 2018 National League, with home meetings being staged at Leicester. (wikipedia.org)

Pesticides are linked to Colony Collapse Disorder and are now considered a main cause, and the toxic effects of Neonicotinoids on bees are confirmed. (wikipedia.org)
Some pesticides, including Neonicotinoids , are more toxic to bees and cause acute symptoms with lower doses compared to older classes of insecticides. (wikipedia.org)
Field exposure to pesticides, especially with relation to neonicotinoids, [11] may lead to multiple physiological and/or behavioral sublethal effects in exposed bees. (wikipedia.org)
A January report by Europe's Food Safety Authority identified a certain class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids as the prime suspect in the mysterious death of bees in Europe. (washingtontimes.com)
This year, the European Union voted to ban neonicotinoids, a widely used class of pesticides, which some have targeted in honey bee declines. (philly.com)
When buying from a nursery, ask for plants that have not been treated with neonicotinoids. (philly.com)
A new study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has found the mechanism by which neonicotinoids adversely affect the immune response of bees and lead to colony collapse. (rabble.ca)
One of the reasons bees are dying is the use of harmful pesticides called neonicotinoids. (independent.com)
It's being described as the "first good evidence" that the widespread use of neonicotinoids is harming wild bees at the population level. (mercola.com)
Our results suggest that sub-lethal effects of neonicotinoids could scale up to cause losses of bee biodiversity. (mercola.com)
Neonicotinoids are powerful neurotoxins and are quite effective at killing the pests, but they're also harmful to non-target pests, namely pollinators such as bees and butterflies. (mercola.com)
The effects of different neonicotinoids were long regarded as interchangeable, but one study showed each may affect bees differently. (mercola.com)
LONDON (Reuters) - Two major studies into how bees are affected by a group of pesticides banned in Europe gave mixed results on Thursday, fuelling a row over whether the chemicals, called neonicotinoids, are safe. (yahoo.com)
They noted, however, that results from Germany showed a positive effect on bees exposed to neonicotinoids, although they said this was temporary and the reasons behind it were unclear. (yahoo.com)

A Bee Stung Me! (kidshealth.org)
Not only do we escape getting stung, we don't even find any bees. (nwf.org)
Unless you've done that, there's a good chance that if you've ever been stung it wasn't by a bee, said Becky Griffin. (treehugger.com)
If you've been stung, it was most likely by a wasp such as a yellow jacket. (treehugger.com)
Australian Honey Bee Industry Council executive director Trevor Weatherhead told reporters that "If [a person] saw a honey bee out on its last legs and they went to feed it some sugar and water, there's every likelihood they'll get stung and the bee will die in any case. (snopes.com)

There are five other types of stingless bee on the island, but they are also found on the mainland. (earthtimes.org)
The stingless bee (pictured below) takes revenge on invading beetles not by striking them down, but by mummifying their bodies in large amounts of resin, mud and wax. (neatorama.com)

I've just heard a great talk by the venerable Dr. May Berenbaum, a wonderful entomologist and effectively the scientific spokesperson about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the technical term for the phenomenon of vanishing bees. (huffingtonpost.com)
Especially in this day of colony collapse disorder, bee parasites, and insecticides. (beliefnet.com)
In 2006, when managed bees began disappearing and dying - a condition that, without a known cause, was later dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder - research efforts went into high gear. (philly.com)
The phenomenon has been dubbed colony collapse disorder (CCD). (scienceblogs.com)
Honey Bee Colony Collapse: Its like, a virus. (scienceblogs.com)
If the colony collapse disorder manages to eradicate the entire bee population, we'll not only be eating a lot less food in general, we'll have to start eating a lot more beans, corn, tomatoes and beets. (neatorama.com)
this phenomenon has been given the name Colony Collapse Disorder. (reference.com)
So that's where the colony collapse bees got off to. (metafilter.com)

Gegear has created a project called Bee-Cology to educate the public on the importance of bee diversity and the conservation of bees, particularly bumblebees in America's Northeast. (newsweek.com)
A team of researchers from Queen Mary, University of London outfitted seven bumblebees with tiny radar transponders, which they stuck on the bees' backs with double-sided tape. (wired.com)
that distance is more than three times as far as bumblebees can see, so the bees must actively fly around to locate their next target. (wired.com)
If you see a traditional-looking bee nest hanging from a tree, you are likely dealing with bumblebees. (wikihow.com)
Bumblebees are particularly furry bees. (treehugger.com)
I tell my classes that the carpenter bee is like a Mack truck, while bumblebees are more like a pickup," Griffin says. (treehugger.com)
But bumblebees can transport honey bee parasites, and vice versa, the research team has now shown, and proposes that increased screening protocols be employed to protect pollinator diversity. (eurekalert.org)

Watch out for garbage cans because they attract bees and yellowjackets. (kidshealth.org)
The brightly colored flowers with their delightful smells are all designed to attract bees to them. (google.com)
Leaving out soda and sweets can attract bees. (ehow.com)
Why would a citrus plant produce caffeine - a compound that's quite costly for a plant to make - in the nectar it's using to attract bees, which eschew the bitter stuff at high levels? (latimes.com)

Swarm of bees rests on work van Jump to media player A swarm of bees takes a liking to a work van in Aberdeen. (bbc.co.uk)

There's more kinds of bees than there are birds and fish put together! (nwf.org)
The Chancellor and her colleagues don't need a lesson in the birds and the bees of statecraft, but they must appease the cries of domestic anti-American outrage. (usingenglish.com)
What does 'a leeson in the birds and the bees of statecraft' means? (usingenglish.com)
The 'birds and the bees' is the talk that parents have with children about sex. (usingenglish.com)
4. Over 40% of invertebrate pollinators (bees, butterflies, midges) along with 16.5% of vertebrate pollinators (bats and birds) are threatened with global extinction. (weforum.org)
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees! (rabble.ca)

100μg/bee) to adult bees. (wikipedia.org)
The development of a bee from egg to adult takes about three weeks. (wikipedia.org)
All of the new adult bees typically remain in their gallery for several weeks then chew through the cell partitions and venture outside in late August to feed. (osu.edu)
Professor Tautz added: "The old idea was that the pupae in the brood nest were producing the heat and bees moved in there to keep warm, but what we have seen is that there are adult bees who are responsible to maintaining the temperature. (telegraph.co.uk)
Spellings bees, for generations the province of the under-12 set with braces, have acquired a cultural prominence in recent years that is winning them adult attention and the kind of participants who might otherwise be found at downtown art gallery openings or indie rock concerts. (nytimes.com)
Adult-only spelling bees, born of nostalgia and spiked with alcohol, have become increasingly popular social activities for brainy hipsters in their 20's and 30's at bars and community centers from Brooklyn to Spokane, Wash. Gone are the days when the sole opportunity to demonstrate one's spelling aptitude was in school. (nytimes.com)
Occurring well after sunset, adult bees are more like unscripted cabaret shows than cutthroat competitions. (nytimes.com)
Yet the fundamental attraction of adult bees has little to do with prizes, participants say. (nytimes.com)

The western honey bee is the world's most economically important insect, introduced nearly everywhere where humans live, yet I couldn't find a map on the internet showing where it came from. (scienceblogs.com)
These were among the findings on the first global assessment of the state of the world's pollinators which has been published following a week-long international meeting in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. (weforum.org)
Over half of the world's native plants require animal pollinators, and most of those are bees," she says. (innovations-report.com)

Acute toxicity of pesticides causes a range of effects on bees, which can include agitation, vomiting, wing paralysis, arching of the abdomen similar to sting reflex, and uncoordinated movement. (wikipedia.org)
They also contain glands that produce beeswax and have straight barbed stingers that can be used only once after which it rips out of their abdomen and kills the bee. (google.com)
The Parasitic Phorid Fly Apocephalus borealis is responsible for the zombie transformation , laying its eggs inside the abdomen of the honey bee. (yahoo.com)
Some of them are gorgeous: One orchid bee is metallic gold with a blue abdomen and a red and gold thorax. (nwf.org)
Carpenter bee abdomens are black, but a bumblebee's abdomen will usually have yellow markings. (wikihow.com)
The queen bee can be recognized by her abdomen, which is usually smooth and elongated, extending well beyond her folded wings. (uaex.edu)

The next time you are out in the field and see bees busy at their days work, think of their wonderful connection to flowers, and the many animals, including humans, that benefit from this wonderful relationship of the natural world. (google.com)
That makes bees critically valuable to humans' existence. (usda.gov)
Humans depend on the free services of wild pollinators including bees, moths and hoverflies," he said. (telegraph.co.uk)
Look for bees unafraid to approach humans. (wikihow.com)
When compared to bees, humans have a rather simplistic sex-determination process. (redorbit.com)
If bees were to disappear from the face of the earth, humans would have just 4 years left to live. (snopes.com)
The latest findings open up the possibility of using recordings of the "bee rumble" as a deterrent as well, helping to prevent potential conflict between humans and elephants. (newscientist.com)
The findings, published in Friday's edition of the journal Science, hints that flowers may have been capitalizing on the bitter compound long before humans built the first Keurig machine. (latimes.com)
Like humans and other vertebrates, some bees are drawn to adventure while others prefer to play it safe. (livescience.com)
It is amazing that behavioral differences within bees appear to involve partly the same molecular pathways as in vertebrates, including humans,' Staffan Bensch, a professor at Lunds University in Sweden, told LiveScience in an email. (livescience.com)
The researchers could increase the likelihood (from 7 percent to 13 percent) that any given bee would act like a scout by increasing the glutamate activity , which is involved in memory and novelty-seeking in humans. (livescience.com)
Novelty-seeking in bees and novelty-seeking in humans share some common molecular roots, but it doesn't mean that one evolved from the other,' Robinson said. (livescience.com)
However, by establishing a colony in a house, building, or hollow tree next to the home, honey bees may become a nuisance or hazard to humans. (osu.edu)
Outside of humans, bees have the most sophisticated communication systems in the animal kingdom. (neatorama.com)
Of course, while humans love honey, it's not the only food source that bees are responsible for. (neatorama.com)
Hand pollination by humans is far less efficient than the pollination work done by bees. (reference.com)
Since antiquity, honey as well as other bee products were used as food, as a cure for ailments of humans and animals, and as cosmetics. (springer.com)

Researchers are throwing out various theories for the widespread disappearance: The bees are become exhausted or disoriented and eventually falling victim to the cold. (treehugger.com)
Experts warn the bee disappearance eventually could harm agriculture and the food supply. (reuters.com)
Wild honey bees: Does their disappearance matter? (bbc.co.uk)
New research suggests there may be no wild honey bees living in England or Wales, but how much does their disappearance matter? (bbc.co.uk)
The proposed reasons for the disappearance of the bees are due to pesticides and insecticides, the spread of viruses and disease, habitat loss, poor nutrition, the varroa mite and stress factors. (reference.com)

they may just be resting while scout bees search for a new home elsewhere. (treehugger.com)

The parasite nests in the stomach of the bees and causes them to walk in circles , sometimes pursuing bright lights, before eventually dying. (yahoo.com)
Bees prefer to live near wildflowers and will build their nests in old wood and in areas that are sheltered from the elements. (reference.com)

About one mouthful in three in our diets directly or indirectly benefits from honey bee pollination. (usda.gov)

After the war, the club became The Bees and have been involved every season from 1948 until the loss of Brandon stadium shortly before the start of the 2017 season, during which they ran a series of challenge matches at other tracks. (wikipedia.org)

The predictable response of the European Union to this somewhat imaginative tale is to ban the pesticide, though there's no good evidence that anything used has anything to do with the death of bees. (washingtontimes.com)
Atkins EL, Macdonald RL, Greywood-Hale EA (1975) Repellent additives to reduce pesticide hazards to honey bees: field tests. (springer.com)
The city recently launched a major marketing campaign with the LIDA Agency and M&C Saatchi to encourage community beekeeping and "bee-friendly behavior" like growing bee-pollinated foods (i.e. fruit trees, tomatoes, and soft fruits), buying locally sourced honey, and minimizing pesticide use in gardening. (fastcompany.com)
I'm curious if anyone has contrasted conventional agriculture with organic, pesticide-free practices in terms of bee density. (yahoo.com)
Despite intense public interest in bees and pollination and strong support of tighter pesticide regulations, Colla and her colleagues found that citizens had a surprisingly poor understanding of the diversity of pollinators and their roles in pollination. (scientificamerican.com)
The focus on neonics [a kind of pesticide] and honey bees has taken a ton of resources away from conserving wild pollinators from their most important threats," Colla says. (scientificamerican.com)
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking action to protect bees from pesticide exposure and these label changes will further our efforts," said Jim Jones, assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. (organicconsumers.org)
Paul Towers, a spokesman with the Pesticide Action Network, said the EPA announcement fails to go far enough to protect bees. (organicconsumers.org)

A fly parasite is being blamed for an epidemic that has struck the honey bee population around the world. (yahoo.com)
When we observed the bees for some time, the ones that were alive, we found that they walked around in circles, often with no sense of direction," said San Francisco State University's Andrew Core lead author on the bee parasite study in the journal Plos One . (yahoo.com)
He said the parasite weakens and often kills bees. (reuters.com)
A gut parasite also is a major health issue for honey bees. (philly.com)
By showing that visits from parasite-carrying bees can turn flowers into parasite platforms, we can say that it is likely that heavily visited flowers may become more 'dirty' with bee parasites," said Graystock, the research paper's first author. (eurekalert.org)
Planting more flowers would provide bees with more options, and parasite spread may thus be reduced. (eurekalert.org)
Varroa mites ( Varroa destructor ) entered the country in 1992, and are considered to be the most destructive parasite in honey bees and a major cause of winter colony loss. (bbc.co.uk)

How do I keep bees away from my house? (reference.com)
If you live in an area that produces flowering plants, shrubs, and trees, you can keep bees. (tractorsupply.com)

There are many possible "remedies", all of which have probably been "tried" by plants over evolutionary time. (fed.us)
European honey bees were imported to the United States a few centuries ago, where they adapted well to the local plants. (huffingtonpost.com)
Contact pesticides are usually sprayed on plants and can kill bees when they crawl over sprayed surfaces of plants or other areas around it. (wikipedia.org)
Using natural methods to get rid of the bees is a great way to solve the pest issue without relying on toxic chemicals that may harm plants near the colony. (ehow.com)
While my beloved readies the mason bee house he bought me as a kit this past Christmas, I've been augmenting the nectar plants in the garden. (beliefnet.com)
Pass-along plants as well as butterfly & bee fodder. (beliefnet.com)
Adler, who studies the role of such compounds in plants, said it would be premature to conclude that plants were essentially drugging the bees so they would return later. (latimes.com)

Neonicotinoid insecticides have been reported to enhance the impact of pathogens, but the underlying immune alteration is still obscure. (pnas.org)
A stronger impact of pathogens in honey bees exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides has been reported, but the causal link between insecticide exposure and the possible immune alteration of honey bees remains elusive. (pnas.org)
You can help protect bees by choosing organic food, grown without these toxic insecticides, and planting bee friendly gardens. (organicconsumers.org)
Avoid applying insecticides during the day when bees are actively foraging. (osu.edu)

The researchers then devised a mathematical model to predict how disease might spread from this "spillover" of runaway commercial bees to their wild cousins. (reuters.com)
Bees are responsible for one in three mouthfuls of our food, thanks to pollination, researchers claim. (telegraph.co.uk)
This initiative will help some of our world-class researchers to identify why bee numbers are declining, and that will help us to take the right action to help," he said. (telegraph.co.uk)
By using this technique, the researchers hoped to overcome the bees' intrinsic responses to sucrose and quinine and test only their judgment of the new smells. (scientificamerican.com)
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Despite their beauty, flowers can pose a grave danger to bees by providing a platform of parasites to visiting bees, a team of researchers has determined. (eurekalert.org)
Alfredo Valido and Pedro Jordano, researchers from the Spanish National Research Council in Tenerife and Sevilla, respectively, saw an opportunity to use these islands-a Spanish archipelago off the northwestern coast of Africa-to study how the introduction of honey bees affects the native pollinating community. (scientificamerican.com)
The researchers believe that the rumbles alert both the elephant's family and neighbouring herds to the threat, and may teach young elephants that bees are dangerous. (newscientist.com)
Next, the researchers saddled more than 900 bees in tiny harnesses and puffed a whiff of fragrance in their faces just before feeding them a sugar solution laced with different doses of caffeine. (latimes.com)
The researchers inspiration: honey bees. (upi.com)
The researchers watched bees discover new food sources and those seen visiting a new food sources at least twice were tagged as scouts. (livescience.com)
The researchers wanted to see if mucking with these pathways could change the bee's behavior , so they gave the bees drugs that turned up or down the levels of these brain chemicals. (livescience.com)
The researchers found evidence of increased wild bee population extinction rates in response to neonicotinoid seed treatment. (mercola.com)
A team of researchers bombarded honey bees with floral smells paired with sugary rewards, some of which contained the same levels of caffeine found in the nectar of coffee and citrus flowers. (slashdot.org)
When the researchers applied the stimulant directly to honey bee brains, it had a positive effect on the neurons associated with the formation of long term memories. (slashdot.org)

The life cycle of bumblebee begins in the spring when the queen bee rises from hibernation. (redorbit.com)

In this case, the queen bee , brood, and nurse bees are not contaminated and the colony survives. (wikipedia.org)
Each female bee creates a series of provisioned brood cells in a gallery. (osu.edu)
Each bee in a colony performs a different profession - there are guard bees, nest building bees, brood caretaking bee, queen caretaking bee and forager bees, which are the ones we are familiar with as they leave the colony. (telegraph.co.uk)
They then crawl into empty cells within the brood nest, transmitting heat to the surrounding cells where the bee pupae are developing. (telegraph.co.uk)

This honey bee immunosuppression is similarly induced by a different neonicotinoid, imidacloprid, but not by the organophosphate chlorpyriphos, which does not affect NF-κB signaling. (pnas.org)
Millions and millions of bees and other life-sustaining insect pollinators are being killed-off by neonicotinoid pesticides. (rabble.ca)
The Sierra Club of Canada is doing everything it can to raise public awareness of its #SaveTheBees campaign -- it won't stop until it wins a ban on bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. (rabble.ca)
I want to ask you to join Sierra Club Canada in taking the next step to convince government to ban bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides. (rabble.ca)
But crop chemical companies say real-world evidence is not there to blame a global plunge in bee numbers in recent years on neonicotinoid pesticides alone. (yahoo.com)

Ben-Shahar didn't set out to discover the effect of manganese on bee behavior. (eurekalert.org)
When a honey bee detects sugar, it reflexively extends its proboscis, a stereotyped behavior that can be experimentally manipulated and quantified. (eurekalert.org)
Now, they want to see if bees go out of their way to feed on caffeinated nectar, perhaps even ignoring predators to do so-behavior that, if observed, could shed light on the neurological processes behind addiction. (slashdot.org)

Honey bees hanging from the exhaust nozzle of an F-22 Raptor engine on June 11, 2016 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. (cnn.com)

Tracheal mites, Acarapis woodi, are parasites that pose a significant health problem for honey bees in the United States and in many other countries. (usda.gov)
Multiple viral infections could lead to CCD, via an inability to produce new proteins that renders bees susceptible to pesticides, parasites and other threats. (scienceblogs.com)
The study, published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B , is the first to show that not only can bees disperse parasites around the environment but also that flowers are platforms for a host of pollinator parasites subsequently dispersed onto visiting bees. (eurekalert.org)
Parasites found in the new group of flowers confirmed the non-target bee was able to disperse the parasites. (eurekalert.org)

Their sole function is to mate with the queen bee. (google.com)
A queen bee can live for up to five years, but her period of usefulness rarely exceeds two or three years. (uaex.edu)
If a queen bee is removed from a colony, the workers will notice her absence within several hours because of the drop in the level of this pheromone. (uaex.edu)

Some solitary bees make chimneys or turrets at the nest entrance, others nest in wood or in the pith of twigs or canes. (britannica.com)

In most orchards, It's either feast or famine for O. lignaria-not very healthy for a bee that doesn't typically prefer traveling far distances. (yahoo.com)
The female bees typically mate with several male bees to collect all the sperm need. (reference.com)

This is to say, fear-mongering about imminent ecological collapse owing to declines in the honey bee population are rather over-wrought. (scienceblogs.com)

Related: A video of someone removing 50,000 bees from a house. (metafilter.com)

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Differential expression of mitochondrial genes between queens and workers during caste determination in the honeybee Apis mellifera. (1/1920)

IA in Kenyon cells of the mushroom body of honeybees resembles shaker currents: kinetics, modulation by K+, and simulation. (2/1920)

Biological activities of C-terminal 15-residue synthetic fragment of melittin: design of an analog with improved antibacterial activity. (3/1920)

A PCR detection method for rapid identification of Paenibacillus larvae. (4/1920)

Differential gene expression between developing queens and workers in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. (5/1920)

The role of orientation flights on homing performance in honeybees. (6/1920)

Update on the status of Africanized honey bees in the western states. (7/1920)

Mass envenomations by honey bees and wasps. (8/1920)

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Differential expression of mitochondrial genes between queens and workers during caste determination in the honeybee Apis mellifera. (1/1920)

IA in Kenyon cells of the mushroom body of honeybees resembles shaker currents: kinetics, modulation by K+, and simulation. (2/1920)

Biological activities of C-terminal 15-residue synthetic fragment of melittin: design of an analog with improved antibacterial activity. (3/1920)

A PCR detection method for rapid identification of Paenibacillus larvae. (4/1920)

Differential gene expression between developing queens and workers in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. (5/1920)

The role of orientation flights on homing performance in honeybees. (6/1920)

Update on the status of Africanized honey bees in the western states. (7/1920)

Mass envenomations by honey bees and wasps. (8/1920)

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