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You need honeybees, space, wild flowers and ample time to for the bees to pollinate and produce it.

Sweet bonusin East Africa there are plenty of honeybees ready to meet the growing demand. But

The mother queen and half of the worker bees leave the hive to seek a new location,

(though worker bees do seem to have some influence over who becomes queen, giving honey bees the most humanlike election process).

But group decision-making is not unique to our species. Even the smallest worker bee, the youngest Tonkean macaque,

The researchers uncovered extensive molecular differences in the brains of worker bees and queen bees which develop along very different paths when put on different diets.

#Mystery of the Honeybees Solved Members of a joint United states army-University of Montana research team that located a virus that is possibly collapsing honeybee colonies.

what is killing off the honeybees? Since 2006,20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United states alone have suffered oecolony collapse.

a way to use honeybees in detecting land mines. But researchers on both sides say that colony collapse may be the first time that the defense machinery of the post-Sept. 11 Homeland Security Department

Rounding out the bottom five are killer bees, starlings, mountain pine beetles, brown tree snakes and Asian mongooses.

After three months the researchers recorded a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted with the mobile phon, a significant reduction in the number of eggs laid by the queen bee.

The queen bee in the oemobile hive produced fewer than half of those created by her counterpart in the normal hive.

They also found a dramatic decline in the number of worker bees returning to the hive after collecting pollen.

Honeybee behaviour and biology has been affected by electrosmog since these insects have magnetite in their bodies

which helps them in navigation. oethere are reports of sudden disappearance of bee populations from honeybee colonies.

We have compared the performance of honeybees in cellphone radiation exposed and unexposed colonies. oea significant decline in colony strength

or bacteria to pesticides but none of these have yet been agreed upon as the reason for this astounding decline The number of managed honeybee colonies in the US fell by 33.8%last winter,

The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honeybee pollination,

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#Honeybees trained to smell TB Honeybees are such an amazing creature! New zealand biologists believe that honeybees can sense the faint floral odor on the breath of people infected with tuberculosis,

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#and not just honeybees, he told me. One bee may look like another, but there can be subtle morphological and genetic differences that set them apart.

Honeybees have been hard-hit by a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder which experts suspect is caused by a combination of mites, parasites, viruses and pesticides.

Bumblebees are having problems, too. This discovery doesn t counter the idea that bees are told declining,

The Backwards Beekeepers group is working to legalize beekeeping in Los angeles. The mysterious disappearance of honeybees,

The U s. Department of agriculture estimates about one-third of the nations diet directly or indirectly benefits from honeybee pollination.

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#Collapse of the Honeybee Population Could Be linked to Pesticides Even tiny doses of neonicotinoids made the insects more susceptible to disease.

Alarming Decline in Bumblebees Found in U s a bumblebee gathers pollen from a sunflower. Four previously abundant species of bumblebee are close to disappearing in the United states,

researchers reported Monday in a study confirming that the agriculturally important bees are being affected worldwide.

As with honeybees, a pathogen is involved partly, but the researchers also found evidence of inbreeding caused by habitat loss.

We provide incontrovertible evidence that multiple Bombus species have experienced sharp population declines at the national level#

But most studies have focused on honeybees. Bumblebees are also important pollinators, Cameron said, but are studied far less.

Bumblebees pollinate tomatoes, blueberries and cranberries, she noted. The 50 species (of bumblebees) in the United states are associated traditionally with prairies and with high alpine vegetations#

she added. Just as important#they land on a flower and they have called this behavior buzz pollination that enables them to cause pollen to fly off the flower.#

#POLLINATING TOMATOES This is the way to pollinate tomatoes, Cameron said#although smaller bees can accomplish the same effect if enough cluster on a single flower.

Several reports have documented the disappearance of bumblebees in Europe and Asia, but no one had done a large national study in The americas.

Bumblebees can fly in colder weather than other species, and are key to pollinating native species in the tundra and at high elevations,

Genetic tests show that the four affected bumblebee species are inbred and other tests implicate a parasite called Nosema bombi,

This is a wake-up call that bumblebee species are declining not only in Europe not only in Asia,

The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides,

Massive loss of honeybees could result in billions of dollars in agricultural losses, experts estimate.

and beekeepers, alarmed at the sudden losses of between 30%and 90%of honeybee colonies since 2006, have posed numerous theories as to the cause of the collapse,

and effort of its worker bees to collect these resins, #says Dr. Michael Simone-Finstrom, a postdoctoral research scholar in NC State s Department of Entomology and lead author of a paper describing the research.

#Parasitic flies attack honeybees turning them into zombies Zombie#fly parasite causing decline of honeybee population.

Instead, the pile of bees ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that for several years has been causing declines in U s. honeybee populations,

and potentially devastating parasitic fly that has been taking over the bodies of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Northern California.

and found that it is the same species that has previously been documented to parasitizie bumblebee as well as paper wasp populations.

That this parasite hasn t previously been reported as a honeybee killer came as a surprise

given that honeybees are among the best-studied insects of the world, #Hafernik said. We would expect that

if this has been a long-term parasite of honeybees, we would have noticed.##The team found evidence of the fly in 77 percent of the hives they sampled in the Bay Area of California,

#Most of the parasitized bees found so far have been foraging worker bees, but even if other groups of bees within a hive are not becoming infected,

If the parasitic fly is just starting to infect honeybee populations, this could be an important move,

which mean that honeybees and their ailments are on the move in much greater numbers than ever before.

Honeybees pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat but they have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Honeybees alone contribute more than $15 billion in value to U s. agricultural crops each year. But Robobees are not yet a viable technological solution.

the tiny bots have to be able to fly on their own andtalk to one another to carry out tasks like a real honeybee hive.

Will robot bees eventually be able to operate like honeybee hives to pollinate commercial crops? Ma:

You could replace a hive of honeybees that would otherwise be working on a field of flowers.

Worker bees tend to follow predictable daily schedulesthey don t call them drones for nothingleaving the beehive at certain times, foraging for pollen,

#Ancient Bees May have Been Wiped out with the Dinosaurs The ancestors of modern carpenter bees may have vanished from Earth roughly 65 million years ago around the same time the dinosaurs were wiped out a new study finds.

Researchers examined the DNA of four types of carpenter bees belonging to the group Xylocopinae from every continent except Antarctica to search for clues about their evolutionary relationships.

Since there are no reliable fossil records for carpenter bees the researchers used a technique called molecular phylogenetics.

Honeybees Are'Righties 'When bees are forced to interact with only their left antennas they have trouble bee-having:

Honeybee Scouts Find Food To conduct the research the results of which were published today (June 27) in the journal Scientific Reports the scientists first randomly cut off a honeybee's right or left antenna.

They then placed pairs of bees into a small container and filmed their interactions. Surprisingly bees with only their right antenna behaved almost identically to those with both antennas intact the researchers found.

Remarkable abilities This is just the latest finding to hint at the remarkable abilities of honeybees

Â In addition honeybees can recognize human faces navigate complex mazes and teach each other where to find food by dancing (have fun trying that one at the next club you visit!).

And now honeybees. Â The result is interesting as it provides provocative information to suggest that there might be lateralization in the bee brain as there is in vertebrate brains said Gene Robinson a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who wasn't involved in the study.

Both humans'right-handedness and honeybees'right-antenna-preference are byproducts of asymmetries in the brain meaning the left and right side of the brain do different things Vallortigara said.

Mysterious disappearance Honeybees have been disappearing mysteriously in a trend known as colony-collapse disorder. Though no one knows exactly what causes the dramatic die-off scientists think a range of factors including parasites

Honeybee Scouts Find Food To see whether honey provided any benefit to the bees May Berenbaum a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The researchers then took those chemicals added them to bee candy a combination of sucrose and powdered sugar and fed them to 15 worker bees.

#Caffeine Gives Bees a Memory Boost Honeybees like tired office employees like their caffeine suggests a new study finding that bees are more likely to remember plants containing the java ingredient.

To see how caffeine affected these cells the researchers recorded the electrical activity of honeybee brains bathed in a caffeine-containing liquid.

</a p><p></p><p>Honeybees like tired office employees like their caffeine suggests a new study finding that bees are more likely to remember plants containing the java ingredient.</

when honeybees are stressedthey display an increased expectation of bad outcomes. In other words they become pessimists.

A newborn joey can be anywhere from 0. 2 to 0. 9 inches (5 to 25 millimeters) long the size of a grain of rice to the size of a honeybee.

There are about 1200 species of bats in the world 20 percent of all known mammal species. The largest bat is the flying fox with a wingspan of six feet the smallest is the bumblebee bat that weighs less than a penny.

Hugh Fitzsimons is a third-generation rancher in Dimmitt County Texas where he raises bison and honeybees.

Meanwhile he says the devastating drought is killing the flora that sustains his honeybees and making it difficult for even the toughest bison to survive.

#Honeybee Collapse May have Complex Cause (Op-Ed) Jeff Nesbit was the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies.

if the continuing die off of honeybees were to reach critical levels. While the researchers were careful not to directly link the complex web of pesticides found in the pollen samples directly to colony collapse disorder the inference is hard to ignore.

and around crops pollinated by honeybee colonies. Right now pesticide labels tell farmers not to spray

They then observed honeybees heating the wax after the initial cell formation a phenomenon identified in previous studies

because it not only gives us a deep insight into the mechanisms that honeybees manage to build very precise cells

#Killer bee Attack: Science Explains Man's Death A Texas man died after being attacked by a swarm of Africanized honeybees sometimes called killer bees.

Larry Goodwin 62 was driving a tractor near his home south of Waco when he disturbed a pile of wood that contained a hive of the notoriously aggressive bees;

Honeybee Scouts Find Food They can get up under your clothes where no other insect can go Miller said.

When science goofs The introduction of Africanized honeybees into the Western hemisphere was the result of a scientific experiment gone awry according to a Texas A&m University report.

In 1956 Warwick Kerr a honeybee geneticist with the University of SÃ£O Paulo Brazil imported African bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) to study.

His intention was to selectively introduce traits such as disease resistance and faster reproductive rate into native honeybees.

and therefore lost) leading to the term Africanized honey bees. Sting Bite & Destroy: Nature's 10 Biggest Pests The bees spread rapidly from Brazil

And Africanized honeybees aren't picky about where they build a hive. Old tires junk piles building eaves cement blocks upturned flower pots and even empty soda cans have been occupied by the bees according to the U s. Department of agriculture.

Stings from Africanized honeybees aren't more venomous than stings from native honeybees but victims tend to be stung dozens or hundreds of times.

One redeeming quality Researchers have noticed that Africanized honeybees seem to be isolated in their current range by temperature and rainfall according to the USDA.

Rainfall over 55 inches distributed evenly throughout the year is almost a complete barrier to Africanized honey bee spread entomologist Josã D. Villa of the Honey Bee Breeding Genetics

As loathed as they are the Africanized bees might have one redeeming quality: They could hold the key to solving the problem of bee colony collapse disorder a deadly syndrome that's wiping out native bee populations throughout North america and Europe.

Though the Africanized bees can carry the Varroa mites that have been implicated in colony collapse disorder they have considerable resistance to the mites unlike native honeybees.

If researchers could isolate the trait that gives the Africanized bees their resistance they may be able to save native honeybee populations.

#Surprisingly Simple Logic Explains Amazing Bee Abilities Bumblebees and Pavlov's dogs have something in common:

Just by watching another bee forage through a screen a bumblebee could go on to pick the sweetest flowers on its own Dawson said.

In the past few years honeybees have spilled onto highways in Montana Canada and California where 10 million to 16 million angry buzzers responded by stinging firefighters police and drivers.

Honeybee hives are shipped regularly to farms around the country to pollinate crops since colony collapse disorder has decimated local bee populations.

When a honeybee returns to the hive it passes the nectar to another bee by regurgitating the liquid into the other bee's mouth.

Diesel Throws Honeybees Off the Trail Diesel pollution snuffs out floral odors interfering with honeybees'ability to find

Honeybees use both visual and olfactory cues to recognize flowersâ that produce nectar in return for insect pollination.

Honeybee Scouts Find Food Diesel alters floral scents The researchers specifically explored whether nitrogen oxides a group of highly reactive gases released by diesel combustion are capable of altering floral odors to an extent that would dampen a bee's ability to recognize desirable flowers.

Honeybee smell recognition The researchers also conditioned a group of honeybees to recognize the synthetic floral odor by repeatedly exposing them to it in conjunction with a nectar reward.

since honeybees pollinate about 70 percent of crop foods across the world which accounts for about 35 percent of the global food supply.

Global honeybee populations have declined dramatically within the past decade or so due to a condition called colony collapse disorder

and also plans to study the neurological effects of nitrogen oxide gases on the honeybee brain.

#Bees'Salt-Sensing Feet Explain Swimming pool Mystery The first-ever investigation of the honeybee ability to taste with their front feet may explain a persistent bee mystery:

Apparently they attract honeybees en masse. Now scientists find that bees have taste receptors on their feet that are so sensitive to salt that they even dwarf the bees'capacity to taste sweets.

The results are important for understanding the honeybee sensory system and potentially for figuring out how pesticides might harm these important pollinators and critical lab models for cognitive research.

Sweet foot Thanks to its impressive navigational skills the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a model organism used by researchers to understand the mechanisms of learning and memory.

and researchers have turned their attention to how pesticides might affect the honeybee navigation system memory and brain function.

#Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount everest Alpine bumblebees have the ability to fly at elevations greater than Mt everest scientists have found.

Bumblebees cannot survive the freezing conditions of Mt everest's peak. But researchers based at the University of California Berkley simulated the low oxygen

and low air density conditions of such high elevations to determine the limits of the bumblebee's flight capacity

The team traveled to a mountain range in western China and collected six male bumblebees of the species Bombus impetuosus at about 10660 feet (3250 meters.

The findings suggest that bumblebees are limited not by flying capacity when searching for places to settle their colonies

This could bode well for alpine bumblebees in the future Dillon said as climate change may force animals up to higher elevations than they once inhabited due to warming conditions at lower elevations.

In the case of the bumblebees they are not going to have much trouble with changes in oxygen.

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which found that honeybees get a boost from caffeine found in plant nectar. This memory boost makes them more likely to remember flowers that contain this habit-forming substance and return there for nectar.

It weighs 5 to 6. 7 ounces (145 to 190 g). The smallest bat is the bumblebee bat according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

and cross-referencing their data with environmental niche models that predict the geographic distribution of species the scientists determined their Ice age specimens belonged to Megachile gentilis a bee species that still exists today.

Leafcutter bees Unlike honeybees and other colony-dwelling bees leafcutter bees are solitary. To reproduce females build small cylindrical nest cells made of carefully chosen leaves and sometimes flower petals.

and their colleagues concluded that the pupae had to be Megachile gentilis a species that currently lives mostly in the southeastern U s. and northern Mexico.

and function of the gut microbiota in honeybees and bumblebees emphasizing genomic approaches not unlike the current research interest in the human microbiome.

But in honeybees and bumblebees the gut is dominated by a small number of tightly related groups she adds.

Apis mellifera the honeybee has a distinctive set of about eight symbiotic bacterial species some of which occur in other Apis species and in the related Genus bombus bumblebees.

Bees of course are critically important ecologically and economically particularly in agriculture where honeybees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of agricultural products in the United states including more than 130 fruits according to the U s. Department of agriculture.

In recent years however there has been increasing concern over rampant bee colony losses dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder and the overall health of bees in general.

and function in the bee gut microbial community system some bumblebees are becoming rare and have shrunken ranges.

Are problems with gut microbiota part of the problem of honeybee health or could microbiota be preserved in a way that helps bees thrive?

and possibly nesting sites in the case of bumblebees she adds. But exposure to toxins and to diseases also play a part based on numerous studies.

Antibiotic resistance Moran's research has revealed that bacteria in the guts of honeybees are highly resistant to the preventive antibiotic tetracycline probably the result of decades of exposure to it because of its use by beekeepers to prevent bacterial diseases.

Moran's team identified eight different tetracycline resistance genes among U s. honeybees that were exposed to the antibiotic

And the gut microbiota of U s. honeybees is a treasure trove of tetracycline resistance genes that have been transferred horizontally from other bacteria.

Snodgrassella alvi Gilliamella apical and Frischella perrara named after three biologists who made major contributions in honeybee biology Robert Snodgrass Martha Gilliam and Karl von Frisch.

These three live together in one part of the honeybee ileum (part of the digestive tract) and two of them also live in bumblebees she says.

Another postdoctoral fellow in her lab Hauke Koch was the first to find that gut symbionts of bumblebees protect against protozoan parasites

if the same is true in honeybees and also to extend the findings in bumblebees she says.

She and her collaborators also conducted a survey of gut symbionts in three bumblebee species to determine whether environmental factors especially agricultural management or geographic location affected symbiont communities.

And it turns out that different bumblebee species all have some of the same symbionts particularly Snodgrassella

and Gilliamella but one bumble bee species seemed to sometimes miss being inoculated she says. The'right'symbionts are simply absent from some individuals.

This is very different from honeybees where every worker bee has the main symbionts and we think it might relate to their different life cycles and social lives.

This work provides a baseline for understanding how the gut microbiota of honeybees and bumblebees varies among colonies

and how this variation might affect colony health. By establishing methods for culturing and type strains that can be studied by different laboratories we can start to untangle the mechanistic basis for colonizing hosts she says.

In the lab we mostly work with young worker bees which do not sting much plus we have contained them.

The ultimate aim is to improve honeybee pollination and productivity on farms as well as help us monitor for any biosecurity threats including Colony Collapse Disorder a global phenomenon where worker bees from a beehive

or colony abruptly disappear or die. The sensors are tiny radio frequency identification sensors that work in a similar way to a vehicle s e-tag recording

Honeybees are perfect as a starting point for our research as they are social insects that return to the same point

A new Department of agriculture initiative offers up to $3 million to improve the food supply for honeybees.

Commercial honeybees alone pollinate some $15 billion of produce each year according to the Associated press a number that doesn't include the economic impact of native bees that also pollinate crops.

But both native bees and imported honeybees are struggling in the face of colony collapse disorder a mysterious ailment that kills off whole hives.

000 Killer bees A municipal worker who got stung by an estimated 1000 bees while mowing a park lawn on Thursday (July 24) was in stable condition.

Turns out the man's attackers probably Africanized honeybees according to the local fire department are not as deadly as their name may suggest.

The bees also stung two other workers who tried to help the man according to Wichita Falls'News Channel 6.)Not-so-killer bees Africanized honeybees

or killer bees have been in the United states since about 1990 according to May Berenbaum head of the department of entomology at the University of Illinois. But despite their dramatic nickname these insects aren't that deadly.

(and killer bees) wasps ants and other bugs Berenbaum said. It's hard to pin down specific data on the number of people attacked annually in the United states by Africanized honeybees:

As Berenbaum explained this is partly because not all attacks are reported and partly because oftentimes people aren't quite sure

While honeybee stingers stay behind in the body of the victim many species take their stingers with them after attacking Berenbaum explained.

Fierce defenders Though Africanized honeybees don't always attack when they do the results can be devastating.

While the victim of Thursday's attack in Wichita Falls Texas survived the incident not all killer bee victims have been as lucky.

Last year in Waco Texas about three hours south of Wichita Falls an estimated 40000 Africanized honeybees attacked a local farmer who was mowing a neighbor's pasture with tractor ABC News reported.

With honeybees in particular the venom isn't really designed to kill. It's designed to educate basically to drive away an enemy

Unfortunately for the victims of killer bee attacks the insects aren't very good at distinguishing between a true threat

Africanized honeybees are extremely protective of their hive and brood much more so than European honeybees.

In addition to number of stings other factors also play roles in determining a person's chances of surviving a killer bee attack.

Berenbaum also advises killer-bee targets not to jump into a pool or other body of water which you might also have seen in movies.