Bees

By Anand Balasubramani, Jennifer Sills, Brad Wible, Caroline Ash, Hilary Stewart, Pamela J. Hines, Hadassah Nusinovich Ucko, Yevgeniya Nusinovich, Laura M. Zahn, Michael A. Funk, Seth Scanlon, Adrian Cho, Monica Bradford, Marc S. Lavine, Andrew Sugden, Nathan…

Flowering plants are characterized by an astonishing diversity of flowers of different shapes and sizes. This diversity has arisen in adaptation to selection imposed by different pollinators including, among others, bees, flies, butterflies, hummingbirds, bat…

Whats one thing that you can expect plenty of in every update of Minecraft? Bugs. And this update will be full of themalthough this time we’re talking about the good ones, the buzzy kind that happens to be a critical part of the earths natural ecosystem. And …

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IMAGE: This is a flower of the bee-pollinated species Meriania hernandoi from the Ecuadorian cloud forest. view more  Credit: Agnes Dellinger Flowering plants are characterized by an astonishing diversity of flowers of different shapes and sizes. This div…

Abstract Bacteria within the digestive tract of adult honey bees are likely to play a key role in the digestion of sugar-rich foods. However, the influence of diet on honey bee gut bacteria is not well understood. During periods of low floral abundance, beek…

Corresponding Author E-mail address: ccnicholson@ucdavis.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7164-0529 Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, 05405 VT, USA Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermo…

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A beekeeper breaks down a swarm of bees with his bare hands and returns them to a hive without getting stung.       Byron Chester, 32, from Ferriday, Louisiana, is a beekeeper at Adee Honey Farm in Bruce, South Dakota.  He revealed the level of technique in…

Abstract Wild bees are important pollinators in many ecosystems threatened by anthropogenic disturbance. Urban development can reduce and degrade natural habitat for bees and other pollinators. However, some researchers suggest that cities could also provide…