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Similar experiments with the same kind of results were done with honeybees. These insects also seem to have a special sense of direction.

Scientists have been struggling for decades to understand the disappearance of honeybees, where numbers have halved since the 1980s.

Such a die-off is no longer unusual. About a third of honeybees have perished every winter since 2006.

There is danger in blindly following the party line, a danger that the honeybees seem to avoid.

Bee Pollen: This should actually be known as flower pollen, but honeybees are the ones to gather it, so we call it bee pollen.

Unlike Honeybees, when wasps sting their victim they do not lose their stinger, allowing them to sting their victim repeatedly.

His previous research has shown honeybees can fly up to nine miles to patches of heather.

All of these methods played an important role in the research and prevention of microsporidia in honeybees and bumblebees.

But few of the scores of native pollinators, less visible and less valued than the big-money honeybees, have been monitored long term.

Manyvital crops are dependent on pollination by honeybees, but latestfigures show a third failed to survive the winter in the U. S.

Honeybees have hair on their eyes to help keep their eyeballs clean. The hair catches dirt and pollen.

Like honeybees and ancient mariners, they can navigate by the sun, so they know the general direction in which to travel.

From remote-controlled flying beetles to honeybees that sniff out land minds, insect hordes are now being programmed to do military bidding.

Bayer's clothiandin, a pesticide used to pre-treat corn seeds, is also thought to be killing honeybees.

Buckwheat honey is gathered by honeybees from the nectar of the delicate white buckwheat blossoms, an uncommonly limited plant source.

Honeybees are the only insects that make food eaten by man.

Meanwhile, the bloodsucking Varroa mite (red dots above), also implicated in CCD, remains honeybees' most devastating pest worldwide.

This paper mainly summarized the progress on the molecular quantitative genetics and quantitative trait locus(QTL)studies on honeybees.

In late 2006, something strange began to happen to America's honeybees.

Honeybees sterilise their hives with antimicrobial resin, scientists have discovered.

Home to a quarter of British Columbia (BC)honeybees, Vancouver Island lost a staggering 90% of its bees thiswinter.

Although they weigh just over a gram, honeybees fight their battles on a massive scale.

Honeybees are not native to America ; they were introduced with the colonialists .

The wings of butterflies contain triangles, the cells of honeybees are hexagons, and the hood of the hooded mantis has a diamond shape.

When winter comes, honeybees form a ball deep in their hive to regulate the hive temperature.

In recent years, honeybees have been hit by the varroa mite, which has spread here from Asia.

During the day, bee-eaters catch honeybees and other insects, sometimes displaying them outside their holes to attract mates.

Favre and his team performed 83 experiments that recorded honeybees' reaction to nearby cell phones in off, standby, and call-making mode.

stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (esp. honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen.

Skunks are omnivores but will turn to trash and carrion when no fresh insects or honeybees, their favorite food, are available.

They pollinate many types of plants, repeatedly visit the same plant, and recruit other honeybees to visit, too.

In the past, a mass exodus would leave the hive to be ransacked by honeybees from neighbouring colonies.

The honeybees have got a lot of interesting biology, and we're seeing genes that can explain some of it.

The delicate flowers attract pollinators, mostly honeybees, to visit and collect nectar and pollen.

Even before this disorder struck, America's honeybees were in trouble.

They still depend on it for rattan, fuel, honeybees, hunting and wood to build their houses and boats.

A swarm of honeybees absconds from the hive and then dangles in a cluster from a tree branch.

Three years ago, honeybees started disappearing in the United States and other countries.

Honeybees are dying of everything, just like AIDS sufferers with weakened immune systems.

Killer bees: Africanised honeybees aim for your mouth and nose first.

But we estimate that about one in three bites of food we eat is directly or indirectly pollinated by honeybees.

European honeybees were introduced to Japan to fulfil the population's desire for sweet things.

Honeybees start out cleaning the hive and feeding larvae, but will progress to collectors and forages, and even hive guardians .

Africanized honeybees swarm toward an Ochroma flower just after sunset.

Explain to students that worker honeybees communicate with other bees in the hive by dancing.

To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation's 2, 000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring.

Honeybees are attracted to the apple flowers by nectar and the scent of the petals.

Honeybees like the colors of flowers, but they can't see red (so you're safe next to the geraniums).

He keeps honeybees, so we call him a beekeeper.

HONEYBEES headbutt their hive mates to warn them of danger at a food source.

Heifers or honeybees: Give the gift of an animal this season.

Because honeybees evolved in the tropics, Dr. Dornhaus's next field site was in the Nilgiri Hills in the Western Ghats in India.

Bushels of ripe cherries spring forth from trees pollinated by honeybees.

Queen honeybees have an equally enchanting way of ascending to the throne.

However, some people cannot resist honeybees.

How do hundreds of honeybees make a critical decision about their hive if many of them disagree?

Miz Cox-Foster says the nation needs honeybees that can defend themselves better against disease and insects.

Honeybees carry this tendency even farther.

I'd bet honeybees now prefer cities to the countryside because there is a richer variety of food.

You wonder how honeybees say each ot IT wITe to search nutriment?

type genus of the Apidae: honeybees.

Honeybees start out cleaningthehive and feeding larvae, but will progress tocollectors and forages, and even hive guardians.

They estimate that about sixty to ninety thousand honeybees live in each hive at the height of nectar flow.

a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs.

The mite is a tiny creature that feeds on honeybees.

These ongoing losses in the pollination army of honeybees cannot continue if we are to secure food supplies.

This past winter, about 30 percent of all the managed honeybees in the US died.

It is hard to pin down what has been causing honeybees to vanish.

Only 46 percent of normal European honeybees typically survive through winter, but the supercharged bees have a 75 percent survival rate.

Dr. Dornhaus resorted to European honeybees, also used there for honey making, and they stayed put.

You wonder how honeybees tell each other where to find food?

The life expectancy of entire colonies dropped below 200 days, making it difficult for honeybees to last through winter.

We need to know why honeybees are dying.

But in order to supply sufficient seasonal flowers to keep honeybees alive, there would be no room for other kinds of plants.

Wasps usually have a slender, shiny body but they can often look like Honeybees.

And here in the US, for example, over 90 crops depend on honeybees for pollination services.

Previously, scientists have used frog eggs to study the olfactory receptors of moths, honeybees and fruit flies.

Last year more than 30% of honeybees died from disease, mainly varroa mite.

Now, researchers in Japan have measured the brain activity of honeybees when they form this killer ball.

Honeybees' brain activity may help them maintain the 46C temperature on the inside of the ball

Pesticides called neonicotinoids are widely implicated in the deaths of honeybees across the world

The Rearing of Special-type Economic Animals (including Silkworm, Honeybees, etc. )

Effects of collecting venom by electric shocking on individual biology of honeybees

Effect of Transgenic Produces on Honeybees and Bumblebees

Wayne Esaias tracks honeybees in changing climate

Inspiration to the genome of the honeybees

Clinical Analysis of 11 Cases of Multiple Stings by Honeybees and Wasps

(D) honeybee larvae have a mechanism to alert adult honeybees to the presenceof A. apis