Boffins at Australia’s RMIT University in Melbourne (with colleagues from Monash and Deakin Universities and the University of Melbourne) looked at how honey bees process colour information, and found some of their five eyes sense ambient light. For honey bees, enhanced colour sensing is a…
Although the process of evolution is slow, it has given the industry hope and sparked an interest in better beekeeping methods, with people entering the industry to try and save the bees. Dr Martin said there had been massive colony loss in the US and…
The punk rock goddess, back with a new album, is teaming up to help pollinators. This year, Blondie brought back their cool, euphoric punk ethos with a majorly welcome musical comeback. Now, Debbie Harry and the band are bringing bees to the forefront, as they…
Join Josh Fuder, Cherokee County Extension Agent, at the Cherokee County Farmers Market on Saturday, June 24th, 2017. Josh will be discussing pollinators and plants that are pollinator friendly. Hopefully this will encourage more people planting of more pollinator plants. To find out more about…
Bees are the undisputed champions of the pollination world. And their secret weapon? Sight. Like us, bees are trichromatic. That means they have three photoreceptors within the eye and base their color combinations on those three colors. Humans base their color combinations on red, blue…
Vice President Mike Pence’s wife, Karen, has opened their government residence to more than a few new inhabitants: honeybees. At least 15,000 of them. More than 80 percent of the land in the Pences’ home state of Indiana is dedicated to agriculture, and Mrs. Pence…
The University of Michigan students who conducted the study suspect that the large amount of vacant or idle land in Detroit may boost the bumblebee population by providing nesting sites and flowers for food. There is certainly a correlation between Bumblebees and other native bees,…
Entomologists call it the windshield phenomenon. “If you talk to people, they have a gut feeling. They remember how insects used to smash on your windscreen,” says Wolfgang Wägele … Today, drivers spend less time scraping and scrubbing. “I used to have to wash my…
According to a bee supplier out of Washington, two boxes of bees broke while in transit on Alaska Airlines and the company was told the airline would not be shipping any more bees this year. It’s a shame. A package of bee must have broken…
This is an interesting study from the UK about the pesticide Thiamethoxam. More study is needed but this is very concerning. Pesticide affects for bumblebees may have similar affects on honeybees as well. “We consistently found that neonicotinoid exposure, at levels mimicking exposure that queens…
