Researchers glued teeny-tiny QR codes to 30,000 bees
Entomologists are gluing tiny QR codes on honey bees to better track the pollinators’ travel habits and life cycles. In doing ...
StudyFinds on MSN4d
Honey bees wear tiny backpacks to track thousands of pollination routes
Discover fascinating insights into the behavior of honey bees. A new study reveals how far they travel to forage and how long ...
Scientists Strapped QR Codes Onto Thousands of Bees to Learn How Far They Actually Fly
Researchers put a sensor at the entrance of beehives to register each time the pollinators entered or exited, and how long ...
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Where do bees go in the winter?
Once the temps drop and snowflakes begin to fall, it’s easy to assume that insects have simply disappeared. And while many do ...
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What does the extinction of bees mean for all of humanity?
Bees. Among the most hardworking and organized insects in the entire world. They are appreciated and loved by doctors for the honey, wax, propolis they produce - all of which have helped people ...
'Buzz me in:' Bees wearing itty bitty QR codes reveal hive secrets
Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...
BOMMER'S BEES: Beekeepers should be on the lookout for signs of spring
A spring meeting held jointly with North Carolina will be held March 6-8. This year’s meeting will be hosted in Monroe, North ...
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From paper to pixels, Mountain West researchers bring bee collections into the digital age
Digitizing the bee collections at museums could answer important questions like whether certain species are still buzzing in ...
These animals evolved to be ‘ultrablack’—here’s why
An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...
Ban on bee-harming insecticide adds to struggling sugar beet farmers’ woes
‘Growers now have no viable solution to protect their crop,’ warns NFU ...
As the Black Summer megafires neared, people rallied to save wildlife and domestic animals. But it came at a real cost
As the 2019–2020 megafires took hold across eastern Australia, many of us reeled at the sight of animals trying and often ...
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Native Bees
The United States has an amazing and diverse array of native bees. Across the country live about 4,000 native bee species — most of which are solitary and nest in the ground — coming in nearly every ...