News About Bees 19-NOV-09 en-us Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sept 01, 2009 - Estimates are that there are somewhere between six and ten million species of insects on the planet, yet few are as charismatic as the honey bee.]]> Davis CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2008 - It's about bee-ing all they can be. An enhanced-line honey bee stock developed by University of California, Davis bee breeder-geneticist Susan Cobey, that crosses her bee line "New World Carnolians" with "Old World" Carnolians from Germany, shows genetic promise in aiding the troubled bee industry, research reveals.]]> Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 09, 2008 - It's one of the hallmarks of spring: a swarm of bees on the move. But how a swarm locates a new nest site when less than 5% of the community know the way remains a mystery.]]> London, UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2008 - Bumblebees learn to avoid camouflaged predators by sacrificing foraging speed for predator detection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.]]> University Park PA (SPX) Aug 22, 2008 - Honey bees industriously bring pollen and nectar to the hive, but along with the bounty comes a wide variety of pesticides, according to Penn State researchers. Add the outside assault to the pesticides already in the waxy structure of the hive, and bee researchers see a problem difficult to evaluate and correct.]]> London UK (SPX) Aug 20, 2008 - Bumblebees choose whether to search for food according to how stocked their nests are, say scientists from Queen Mary, University of London.]]> Washington DC (SPX) Aug 06, 2008 - Most of the world's plant species rely on animals to transfer their pollen to other plants. The undisputed queen of these animal pollinators is the bee, made up of about 30,000 species worldwide, whose daily flights aid in the reproduction of more than half of the world's flowering plants.]]> London, UK (SPX) Jul 31, 2008 - Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London are helping to perfect a technique used to catch serial killers, by testing it on bumblebees.]]> Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 31, 2008 - Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica. A tiny parasitic fly is affecting the social behavior of a nocturnal bee, helping to determine which individuals become queens and which become workers.]]> LaJolla, CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2008 - Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown.]]>