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Honeybees have surprising abilities to maintain their nest structure ...
Jun 7, 2023 ... Honeybee colonies have demonstrated incredible adaptability and resilience in maintaining their nest structures, even amid severe disturbances.
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Beehive fences keep elephants from raiding farms - Earth.com
Nov 3, 2024 ... The experts found that elephants would avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons.
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Scientists learn how to breed disease-resistant superbees - Earth.com
Mar 8, 2017 ... The idea is that DNA sequencing could enable honey bees to be bred to withstand the effects of the parasites and pathogens that are decimating ...
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Saving pollinators like wild bees can boost food supply and income ...
Apr 6, 2024 ... In the realm of pollination, where the spotlight often shines on the industrious honey bee, known for its honey production, the critical ...
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Could blue orchard bees replace honeybees for pollination? - Earth ...
Mar 30, 2017 ... With the disturbing decline of the honeybee population over the past few years, orchard growers are turning to blue orchard bees to help ...
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Bees and wasps use the same nest-building tricks despite ...
Jul 29, 2023 ... Studying bees and wasps. Certain honey bee and wasp species construct two distinct hexagon sizes: smaller cells house workers, while the ...
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Honeybee pollination produces plant offspring vastly inferior to ...
Jun 28, 2023 ... Honeybees make honey from the nectar they collect from flowering plants. Inside the beehive, they use their wings to evaporate water from the ...
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Vegetation helps wild honeybees survive the winter - Earth.com
Feb 18, 2022 ... “After two years of study and a total of 52 observed bee colonies, we see that around 40 percent of the colonies survive the winter,” said ...
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Honeybees are very selective about their nutritional choices - Earth ...
Oct 4, 2023 ... “Across samples, on average fewer plant genera were used for pollen, but the composition was more variable among samples, suggesting higher ...
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Honeybees may be superspreaders of plant viruses - Earth.com
Jan 27, 2022 ... Honeybees may be superspreaders of plant viruses ... Honeybees and other pollinators often visit many species of plants, and new research shows ...
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