What you should know about the bees in your garden
While honeybees are not native to the United States, we do have 29 varieties of bees that are native to North Florida and ...
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US approves world’s first vaccine for declining honey bees
It was engineered to prevent fatalities from American foulbrood disease, a bacterial condition known to weaken colonies by attacking bee larvae. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved a ...
Hive Mentality: Is Behavior Programmed Into DNA?
Researchers in Germany studying honeybees found that DNA can predetermine certain behaviors. Their findings may shed light on ...
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Phorid Larvae Exiting Bee (IMAGE)
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What can bees teach economists about how markets work?
This keeps her bee larvae out of the honeycombs. The honeycombs are easily pulled out and harvested by a spinning centrifuge that flings out, filters and collects the honey. A marvel of design and ...
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Confectioner from Akita hits sweet spot with insect-like candy
Welcome to the genre of “kimokawaii,” or creepy-cute. Sweets shaped like bee larvae look wiggly and weird. Whoa! Creepy-cute. A chocolate rhinoceros beetle larva has curled up to snooze.
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Feds seek ESA help for a parasite bee stung by other bee declines
“Female cuckoo bumble bees invade host bumble bee nests where they will often eliminate the host queen, destroy host eggs, and eject host larvae from the nest,” the FWS reported. All of which ...