Honeybees Use a Chemical Game of ‘Telephone’ to Find their Queen
Honeybees relay chemical messages to alert other worker bees in a colony to the queen’s location. Continue reading Honeybees Use a Chemical Game of ‘Telephone’ to Find their Queen
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Bees
By carrying pollen from plant to plant in their quest for nectar, bees help to facilitate plant reproduction, giving bees an essential role in the sustainability of our agriculture. Bee populations have been threatened over the last decade by a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder, where the bees leave their hives and never return. This year, however, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released positive … Continue reading Bees
Better Bees: Progress Towards Robotic Pollinators
Bees and pollen are associated with a variety of irritations, but together they play a key role in crop production and global agriculture. Unfortunately, bee populations have been declining over the past decade. In response to the threat posed to the world’s food supply, scientists from Japan have been working to develop a robotic bee that can pollinate flowers just like a real honeybee. These … Continue reading Better Bees: Progress Towards Robotic Pollinators