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For the birds - and bees
Mexico City :: Mexico | about 4 hours ago
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A rainy day is the perfect time to cozy up to a good research book. Currently, I’m reading about the diversity of flowers and their pollinators. Bees are the major pollinator of flowers and share a lifelong co-dependency. Our eating habits would change...
Tags: tiny flowering, Mexico, Mexico City, Environment, Pollination, Bumblebee, Insect ecology, Flowers, Symbiosis, Pollinators, Blossom, Hospitality Recreation, Bee
Where BEE means growth
Cape Town :: South Africa | 1 day ago
Credibility If you wanted to have a frank and honest conversation about black economic empowerment (BEE), now is not the best time to do it. A contracting economy invariably means squabbles between suppliers and clients and among shareholders, as credit tightens...
Tags: South Africa, BEE, insufficiently competitive, Cape Town, Racism, Racial segregation, Business Finance, South African law, Discrimination, South Africa under apartheid, Black Economic Empowerment, Economy of South Africa
Winners of the sixth annual Bee decorating contest dress up their birds in some very imaginative ways
Elk Grove :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility At age 9, Sydney Opfer is a seasoned veteran of creative competition...Sydney, who lives in Elk Grove, won the Best of Show Award in The Bee's sixth annual Turkey Decorating Contest with a "wonderful pop-up book that was in a class by itself," said chief...
Tags: Sydney Opfer, Elk Grove, Sacramento California, Sacramento metropolitan area, Bee, Entertainment Culture
Steve Bee buzzes off after 12 years with Scottish Life
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Life pensions strategist Steve Bee is to step down in January after 12 years with the Edinburgh-based group. The departure of one of the industry's most influential pensions experts will come as a significant blow to the firm, particularly in the independent...
Tags: Steve Bee, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Competitions, Politics, Social Issues, Bee, Labor
ETS forestry deal poses risk to bee populations
Auckland :: New Zealand | 4 days ago
Credibility Much of this flora, particularly manuka and other native plants, gorse and broom, is on marginal and DOC land and it’s at risk if we concentrate solely on planting forest sinks.” Mr Paul said although gorse and broom are considered pests, these plants...
Tags: Mr Paul, New Zealand, Auckland, Bee, Hymenoptera, Bees, Varroa, Broom, Faboideae, Beekeeping, Pollinators, Environment
Fig wasp, the miracle insect
The tiny fig-wasp that measures hardly 1.5 millimeters is a world record holder among insects. Research has shown that it can travel upto 100 miles in two days!! The previous recorded distance travelled by any insect carrying pollen was just 6 miles per...
Tags: fig-wasp, mosquitoes, butterflies, pollen, bee, United Kingdom, Leeds, Plant morphology, Ficus, Fig wasp, Wasp, Pollinators, Hymenoptera, Accessory fruit, green
Bees discover nectar through temperature-sensing abilities
New Delhi :: India | 10 days ago
Credibility According to American scientists, honeybees have the capacity to locate nectar in flowers by sensing the temperature of their food. Biologists at UC San Diego, has found that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability...
Tags: India, New Delhi, Livestock, Apidae, Honey bee, Bee, Honey, Beekeeping, Pollinators, Pollination, Environment
Bees provide pain relief in beleaguered Gaza
Gaza :: Palestine | 10 days ago
Credibility In a clinic in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, Ratib Samur makes his way from one patient to the next armed with little more than a small box filled with enraged bees. He uses the bees to sting those who have come to him for help -- and amid the territory's...
Tags: Ratib Samur, Gazans, Gaza GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip, bee stings, Israeli, bee venom, Egypt, venom treatment, rheumatoid arthritis, Palestine, Gaza, First aid, Apitherapy, Bee, Beekeeping, Pollinators, Bee sting, Health Medical Pharma
Insects could be as smart as mammals, say scientists
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 10 days ago
Credibility Having a brain the size of a pinhead does not necessarily make you less bright, say researchers. Computer simulations show that even consciousness could be generated in neural circuits tiny enough to fit into an insect's brain, according to the scientists...
Tags: United Kingdom, Glasgow, Neuroanatomy, Organs, Insect, Ant, Bee, Hymenoptera, Brain, Central nervous system, Artificial intelligence, Neuropsychology, Strong AI, Nervous system, Neuroscience, Philosophy of mind, Health Medical Pharma, Consciousness, Neurobiology
Bees Fight to Death Over Females
New York :: NY :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility However, male Dawson’s bees, one of the world’s largest bee species, are so aggressive that they kill each other en masse in a bid to mate with females. The bees enter a frenzy of fighting, and by the time their deadly combat is over, every male bee is...
Tags: New York, Bee, Hymenoptera, Livestock, Eastern carpenter bee, Pollinators, Bees, Beekeeping, Environment
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