It has all the colors of an oil puddle in the sun. Yet the real weirdos are our familiar yellow-and-black honeybees says U s. Geological Survey biologist Sam Droege.
The Augochloropsis is one of 4000 bee species native to the U s. Honeybees on the other hand are more recent settlers that European farmers brought to America in the 1600s.
Click here to enter the gallerydroege considers honeybees weird because their habits differ from those of most native bees which tend to be solitary
The whole multi-year queen waggle dance hive honey etc. are absent from our native species he wrote to Popular Science in an email.
Only native bumblebees which comprise about 40 species in North america have a formal colonial social structure with workers and queens.
Honey-and bumblebees'social structures mean people are able to cultivate them in hives and drive them around to places that need them.
Small farms could depend entirely on native bees though larger farms required honeybees. The natives may be especially effective at pollinating foods native to The americas including cherries and cranberries.
Another major difference between native and honeybees is that the natives don't suffer from colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that's killed off on average one-third of domestic honeybee colonies every year since 2006.
That's because native bees don't suffer from the same pests and viruses that honeybees do
and they don't have the same social order Droege says. Nevertheless native bees may be threatened by pesticide residues
However they do require bumblebees to pollinate them. Domestic honeybees don't make the correct movements eggplant flowers need.
I apologize for the error. Bees are magical and bring life upon the Earth. I adore BEES!..
#Many retired men enjoy tinkering in the garage to fill the hours working on an old Jaguar XKSS say
Nilton Renno a professor at the University of Michigan and an atmospheric convection expert believes Michaud's calculations assume that AVES cover the entire surface area of Earth.
While the theory behind AVES is solid scaling them up to the size AVETEC requires could go awry Renno says.
He believes that his AVES have the potential to be a major electrical energy producer and one that will be cost-effective.
Building AVES will reduce our reliance on fossil fuels he says and that will reduce emissions in turn.
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Just Like Lizards'Tailssome lizards and amphibians have the ability to regrow severed tails or limbs--in fact the blue-tailed skink abandons its tail intentionally to distract predators.
But humans despite our amazing advancements in the field of spying on each other are thought typically to lack this superpower-like ability.
But in fact we're more like blue-tailed skinks than you'd think! Back in 2010 a woman named Deepa Kulkarni lost the tip of her finger to an altercation with a slammed door.
and found that in mice these cells produce chemicals that regrew bone and flesh. So what if in the absence of natural Wnts you used genetic engineering to force tissue to produce these proteins?
When they forced the production of Wnts in mice the team managed to regrow bone
This has huge implications for the treatment of amputations--the experiment was performed only on mice
Why would avaians amphibians and on to ad nozium be given that ability; why do raccoons foxes know how to cast a broken leg;
to find the perfect site for recovery water food shelter prey vulnerability reduced. When bloodletting Europeans stumbled on Turtle Island North america shores the Landowner North american Amerindians had a complete Pharmacopea inferiorly chemically immitated
and patented today were doing surgery including neuro surgery used anaesthetics including sub cu and injection;
applied leeches (their most scientifically based bit of medicine; administered arsenic. Declared every last grain of any resource theirs to consume until depletion.
My elderly office manager says we are the lesser monkeys. When my child was born with a severe heart anomaly sentencing her to global developmental retardation Mental and physical
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#European Bee Sperm bank Will Improve U s. Bee Gene Poolhere's a new idea for protecting the declining honeybee population in the U s. One team of scientists is importing European honeybee semen for fun
and storage. The team based at Washington state University has imported bee semen from subspecies that live in Italy Georgia and the eastern Alps.
The Washington team hopes to use the European sperm to fertilize American queen bees producing offspring that may be more resilient to colony collapse disorder the mysterious syndrome in which workers abandon a colony dooming it to die.
which may lead to healthier American insects. Beekeepers began reporting colony collapses in 2006 according to the U s. Department of agriculture.
Since then an average of 33 percent of human-managed hives in the U s. have died every year.
If hives continue to die at this rate pollinating would be come much more expensive driving up food costs in the U s. the U s. D. A. says.
Italian honeybees for example are quick to reproduce a boon for American farmers in warmer areas who want bees to pollinate early-blooming crops.
the killer bees now invading North america...I hope they're taking appropriate precautions c
#Raise Your Own Edible Bugs With This Decorative Kitchen Podthe U n. recently suggested (not for the first time) that we put a bit more crunchy insect protein into our diets.
Eating bugs could provide a sustainable source of snackage--they produce less greenhouse gas than cattle those four-legged methane-factories
and don't require as much farmland as animals. In fact you can raise insects right in your kitchen!
That's the goal of Lepsis a prototype countertop grasshopper breeder from designer Mansour Ourasanah in collaboration with Kitchenaid.
As a symbol of change the product is a constant remember of the importance of food its infinite diversity
and our contribution in the survival of the planet and the fate future generations Ourasanah writes in his design summary.
and killing your next delicious grasshopper burger. So far it's just in the prototype phase
Even though growing and eating insects is pretty repulsive to many people in the developed world an attractive product like the Lepsis could help people to warm to the idea Inhabitat writes.
Inhabitat Instead of eating the bugs yourself you can get a chicken and feed the bugs to the chicken (they like them I don't) then you can eat the chicken eggs
and if you're feeling a bit choppy you can eat the chicken! Black soldier flies produce pretty great larvae.
They're sold commercially as Phoenix Worms. Chickens love'em! And you can grown them on kitchen scraps.
They also ward off houseflies for reasons I don't quite understand and they look like black wasps
so they scare the neighbors for a bonus! You can then use the chicken manure to fertilize duckweed ponds use the duckweed to feed tilapia filter the tilapia water thru a gravel growbed use the gravel growbed to grow vegetables
and eat the tilapia and the vegetables use the tilapia guts and veggie scraps to feed the black soldier fly larvae
All better than eating bugs. Plain and simple. Insect consumption will not get going in America until the process
and product are hidden sufficiently from the consumer. The majority of Americans do not go to the grocer looking for a piece of raw cow-they are in search of'beef'(for example)
Likewise people do not want to prepare a bowl of bugs but with a little education and social conditioning they may slowly warm to the idea of processed insect'meat'as in small blocks of'meat'that don't actually look anything like bugs
which Americans are interested not in (except for to brag about as a culinary adventure at some trendy dive).
Insect consumption proponents. If you want to get a foothold in the North american market (I for one am rooting for you) then stop showing people pictures of bugs or even cleverly prepared bugs.
Instead begin by creating some nice euphemisms for insect meat (along the lines of pork
and beef) and look into creative ways of processing the raw material into consumer friendly and meal preparation friendly packaging (think tofu).
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and he fills it with a variety of white powders--salt fiber potassium chloride monosodium phosphate and maltodextrin (carbohydrates) from an enormous tub labeled Muscle Feast and adorned with a weirdly muscular dog.
The first night Tom and I go out with friends and drink beers watching while they chow down on burgers and macaroni and cheese.
You want your poop to be soft like a snake one of them advises. Rhinehart says he still poops on Soylent just much less.
#Envisioning A Future Of Custom-Grown Meatthe era of exotic meats grown to order--with no animals killed in the process--could be on its way.
Cells are extracted from living animals and cultured in the lab on a diet of glucose and amino acids where they grow into small strips of muscle tissue.
and how does it compare to the old fashioned way of raising an animal on a farm?
But as a vegetarian that abstains mostly because of cruelty to animals this would become an option for me.
If you want efficiencyeat the grain the animal you killed for dinner ate. Meat is a luxuryand questionable for your health (especially red meat) if eaten on a regular basis.
me that an animal has to suffer and dieif I have the alternative of lab grown meat when
because they have no way to survive naturally-horses are different-THERE ARE wild horses and they do some what ok with out human intervention...
just as close to cows as wolfs are to dogs but your right if we didnt eat cows there would be very very few of the wild
or tame variety truely wild horses dont exist theyre all tame ones that escaped and bred unless you count zebras cows can breed WITH BUFFALO
and produce fertile offspringsure sounds like wild cows to me nomunclature not withstanding steak from a tube might taste ok it depends
There are of course plenty of wild varieties of any domestic animal. Where do you think the domestic ones came from?
or intentionally mixed with meat from once-living animals. If the tech is solid eventually they will produce lab meat that is healthier and tastier than natural meat.
-archosaur-You seem to be operating under a misconception. You are right in that cutting down trees does not release CO2
Then an animal comes along (me or you) and breaths in the fresh purified O2.
Plants and animals form a symbiotic relationship you need one for the other to survive.
but you miss archosaur's point. Cutting down forests is carbon-neutral; it doesn't release carbon.
How Birds Lose Their Penisesa team of researchers at the University of Florida has solved the mystery of what some call one of the most puzzling events in evolution:
the reduction and loss of the penis in most male birds. About 10000 species of birds have reduced
or absent external genitalia as adults. Many have normal penises as embryos but as they develop their penises stop growing
Despite that male birds still manage to fertilize female birds through internal insemination just like humans.
To study how male birds lose their penises the UF researchers examined the embryonic development of birds with penises (ducks and emus) and birds without penises (chicks) among other creatures.
In other birds like ducks and emus that gene stays switched off allowing their penises to grow fully.
In some birds they grow a little too fully: certain species of water fowl like ducks have such large phalluses they can exceed the length of the body.
Our discovery shows that reduction of the penis during bird evolution occurred by activation of a normal mechanism that attenuates development programmed cell death in a new location the tip of the emerging penis says Martin Cohn a professor at UF
's Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a senior author on the study. Cohn and his colleagues believe their research could shed light on evolutionary developments beyond the fowl world.
Birds have figured clearly out how to make do given that they've have had no trouble replenishing the flock.
In some birds they grow a little too fully: certain species of water fowl like ducks have such large phalluses they can exceed the length of the body...
Aaaaa my imagination of seeing this duck fly is just so funny. Just picture it as you look to the sky
The photo of the cock is quite fitting considering the subject of the story. -wise uphahahaaaa@penis-less cock.
LOL! I think I have an obvious hypothesis for what function this would serve birds.
Ducks retained penises but duck genitalia are optimized mechanically to allow conception only from consensual sex.
Extensively so they're like corkscrews. Ducks also have a lot of what should probably be called gang rape.
Birds rear their young as parents. Proper mating behavior and display screens for potential as a parenting partner to a female.
The process can be short-circuiting by otherwise behaviorally unworthy males forcing sex on females
For a bird species to last it was either adapt in the way ducks did...
or this s
#World's Oldest Primate Fossil Discovered A tiny beady-eyed long-tailed primate with hand-like feet is now the world's oldest known fossil primate skeleton.
In a study to be released in the journal Nature this week an international team of researchers describe their discovery of the Archicebus achilles
Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient lake roughly 55 million years ago this fossil is the oldest primate fossil beating the previous record-holders--including Darwinius from Messel in Germany and Notharctus from the Bridger Basin in Wyoming
It's not just that it's the oldest primate but it turns out that this fossil tells us that primates had already been evolving for quite some time.
This primate was advanced already fairly in terms of the evolutionary tree says Christopher Beard a coauthor of the study and paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum of Natural history.
The Archicebus sits at a branch of the evolutionary tree which goes in two directions:
one toward living tarsiers large-eyed night-dwelling small primates and anthropoids the monkeys apes and humans
Given Archicebus's size weighing about an ounce and measuring 7 to 9 inches long including the tail
and its basal evolutionary position this discover supports the idea that the common ancestor of both tarsiers
and anthropoids were quite small. These two branches anthropoids and tarsiers have been thought to be linked evolutionarily for some time
and now scientists are starting to understand the age of that split. Beyond its addition to our understanding of evolution the ancient primate is also unique in its physique.
One of the most curious characteristics of the Archicebus is its feet. Tarsiers tend to have elongated heel bones
which help give them leverage for their giant leaps. Anthropoids have designed feet specially for grasping
though humans are a bit of a special case given our unique disposition of walking bipedally.
but a little marmoset which is a type of monkey from South america I was convinced this thing was going to be a very primitive anthropoid Beard says.
Here's an animal that combines features that we've just never seen before in one fossil primate.
But after the exhaustive analysis it became clear that Archicebus was linked also closely to tarsiers.
To fully analyze the fragile fossil researchers collaborated with the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble France.
and compared with other primates both living and fossilized. The analysis and data-gathering was one of the longest and most extensive phases of the study.
and that's an animal that's unlike everything else we've ever seen Beard says.
or mosaic of different features that are found in different animals today but never together in one.
whereby a liver changes into a lung or a dog into a giraffe. I don't want waffle such as enzymes do this or that or âÂ#Âoewe believeã¢Â# fairy stories.
A tiny beady-eyed long-tailed primate with hand-like feet is now the worldã¢Â#Â#s oldest known fossil primate skeleton...
Because they would've had to have had a living breathing primate for the beady-eyed part or am
A stunning new fossil shows how simians got their start By Kate Wong. Excerpts:..a nearly complete 55-million-year-old skeleton of a mouse-size creature known as Carpolestes simpsoni.
Like modern primates (or euprimates...it has long fingers and toes as well as nails on its opposable digits...
But unlike euprimates this animal exhibits laterally positioned eyes and legs built for climbing not leaping...
that Carpolestes and its fellow plesiadapiforms were in fact archaic primates...Also see: news. nationalgeographic. com/news/2007/02/070201-primates. html Fossils of'Most Primitive Primate'Found Near Yellowstone by Brian Handwerk National geographic News February 1 2007.
Excerpts:..in a new study the paleontologists who found the fossils say that plesiadapiforms are in fact the most primitive known primates...
two 56-million-year-old fossils embedded in limestone in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin...'Not only does it share many characteristics with other primitive primates
but it seems to also share characteristics with the most primitive living tree shrews which are not primates'Bloch said...
In addition to detailing the fossil finds the study compared 173 skeletal characteristics of plesiadapiforms primates tree shrews and flying lemurs in hopes of unveiling their evolutionary links...
Comparisons of 85 living and extinct species suggest that all plesiadapiforms are actually primitive primates Bloch said...
The team's finding is likely to spark debate some scientists note because Dryomomys szalayi doesn't have all of the traits traditionally associated with modern primates.@
@Usutu: Good post but allow me to share some nuances from my own research. Darwin actually thought mutations (sports as they were called then) only played a small role in evolution.
He thought the main driving force was from organisms continually being pressured to adapt over generations sort of like Lamarck's idea but much slower.
Your liver to lung and dog to giraffe are bad examples as nobody is saying those transitions did
Then too beady might be a relative term here as some small primates like tarsiers
and bushbabies have relatively huge eyes compared to their small heads so these critters'eyes might not look so beady except by comparison.
and you barely care as your practiced jaw scrapes the pure taste of the season from the cob.
Can you just chow down on Big macs as far as the brain goes and be pretty much set?
Animals have been shown to have altered their minds by gut bacteria--is it the same for humans?
and emotion recognition in animals so this was a test to see if the process extended to humans.
and fungi as well as animals and you can sort the list by location type or habitat in case you were particularly curious about creatures that live in the air above Oceania.
it's nothing famous like the giant panda or Amur leopard but instead the forest coconut native to Madagascar.
While we are tracking one species here and there individual towards endangerment animals are not a species that live by themselves
When enough animals of the environment become endangered a tipping point will happen and suddenly humans might find themselves crashing towards extinction!
and California the Hibiscadelphus Woodii a flowering tree in Hawaii and the Dusky Gopher Frog located in Harrison County Mississippi.
The story of how humans evolved from knuckle-walking primates to upright bipeds is still a matter of great debate among anthropologists.
since many large African carnivores can't climb. The researchers call for further study of ancient landscapes to support this theory though ancient conditions in active tectonic regions like the East African Rift can be difficult to reconstruct
My wild card guess when monkeys change to running primates is when we became meat eaters.
Baboons walk upright when they wade in water to keep their heads up. Our ancestors might have learned that this was adventageous out of the water as well. visualize There is some theorizes that we primates might of spent a lot of time in water as you said forcing us to stand more up right loose our fur too.
I'd like to see you escape a cheetah by climbing a rock face. These dudes are master climbers.
They will be across the field and on your back before you're half way up the cliff.
If we evolved from apes we lost our strength speed climbing ability and protective hair (well..
or how such a pathetic animal ever survived in the wild. This is all just story telling
Fox85. comancient humans were not helpless at all against bigger stronger and faster predators. Once people learned to make fire the other animals were put at a permanent disadvantage e
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