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Measuring pesticides in honey may help protect bees - Earth.com
Nov 24, 2020 ... Common pesticides that are believed to threaten the health and survival of honeybees can now be detected in honey, according to researchers ...
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Maternal care provides lifelong health benefits to carpenter bees ...
Sep 14, 2023 ... One notable fungus, Aspergillus, induces the lethal stonebrood disease in honey bees, turning them into mummified versions of their former ...
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Scientists train sniffer bees to detect explosives and radioactive ...
Sep 3, 2019 ... ” At this point, the bees must be re-trained to find explosives. In Croatia, real-world tests using honeybees from local hives began in 2017.
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Organic beekeeping is equally productive as methods using ...
Apr 20, 2023 ... Honeybees produce honey by collecting nectar from flowers, which they then store in their hives. Humans have used honey as a natural sweetener ...
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Sniffer bees show surprising potential in explosive detection - Earth ...
Jun 16, 2018 ... ... bees out of the hive and towards the explosives. Apismellis Era Carnica honey bees were trained over two days to sniff out the TNT in hopes ...
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Air pollution is wiping out bees and other wild pollinators - Earth.com
Aug 16, 2020 ... Air pollution appears to be decimating wild pollinators like honey bees, according to new research.
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Honey from city bees can be used to trace environmental pollutants ...
Jan 11, 2020 ... When bees hunt for pollen and nectar near their hives, they pick up trace amounts of elements such as lead. As a result, these elements can be ...
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Extreme heat threatens solitary bees and global food security - Earth ...
Aug 16, 2023 ... Unlike honeybees that store honey, solitary bees provide their offspring with a mixture of pollen and nectar called “bee bread”. Conservation.
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Hives have collective immunity thanks to older bees - Earth.com
May 5, 2019 ... “Jelly RNAs corresponded to honey bee protein-coding genes ... However, nurse honey bees nourish the young larvae with a processed ...
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Scientists have created the first global map of bee diversity - Earth.com
Nov 21, 2020 ... “People think of bees as just honey bees, bumble bees, and maybe a few others, but there are more species of bees than of birds and mammals ...
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