Search Results for: Bees

Open the calendar Use the arrow keys to select a date

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Visit our FAQ page.

1,506 results

1,506 results for: Bees

  1. Africanized bees rescue loner trees

    Africanized bees pollinate some of the big Brazilian forest trees now stranded in the middle of cleared land away from their native pollinators.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Earth

    Honey may pose hidden toxic risk

    Many honeys may contain potentially toxic traces of potent liver-damaging compounds produced naturally by a broad range of flowering plants.

    By Janet Raloff
  3. Health & Medicine

    Honey of a Threat

    An all-natural, organic food, honey has a benign–if not wholesome–image. Many people consider it a superior alternative to table sugar and corn syrup–two primary sweeteners in the U.S diet. Though attractive to bees, borage may lace its flowers nectar with toxic chemicals that could then show up in honey. James N. Roitman, USDA-ARS Comfrey, formerly […]

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Animals

    Homing Lobsters: Fancy navigation, for an invertebrate

    Spiny lobsters are the first animals without backbones to pass tests for the orienteering power called true navigation.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Ecosystems

    Making Scents of Flowers

    Science gets the tools to start sniffing around the ecology of floral scent.

    By Susan Milius
  6. Agriculture

    Bt corn variety OK for black swallowtails

    The first published field study of butterflies and genetically altered corn finds no harm to black swallowtail caterpillars from a common corn variety.

    By Susan Milius
  7. Animals

    Mole-rats: Kissing but not quite cousins

    Damaraland mole-rats live underground in rodent versions of bee hives, but a genetic analysis of these colonies finds that kinship isn't very beelike.

    By Susan Milius

  8. Hungry spiders tune up web jiggliness

    Octonoba spiders tune the sensitivity of their webs according to how hungry they are.

    By Susan Milius
  9. Animals

    Honey-Scented Elephants: Young males’ faces drip sweet signals

    An Asian bull elephant just reaching maturity secretes a liquid from glands on its face that smells like honey.

    By Susan Milius

  10. Fly naps inspire dreams of sleep genetics

    Researchers have discovered a sleep-like state in the fruit fly.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  11. Aphids with Attitude

    A few aphid species that live socially in groups raise their own armies of teenage female clones.

    By Susan Milius

  12. Beer-flavoring compounds guide insects

    The class of compounds that give beer its bitterness does two more sober jobs in Hypericum flowers.

    By Susan Milius