Picture shows soybeans, undated. One of the most common crops in the world has been found to be a popular nectar source for honeybees in a study focusing on the correlation between soybean farming and honeybees' pollinating activity. (NewsX/Bee)
Brazilian singer Ivete Sengalo with family playing with stingless bees in a meliponary - a space for breeding stingless bees - in Praia do Forte, on the north coast of Bahia in Brazil, undated. In the image, Ivete appears alongside her husband, nutritionist Daniel Cady, and their daughters - Marina and Helena. (@ivetesangalo, @polendourado, NewsX/Bee)
Brazilian Singer And Family Surrounded By Swarm Of Stingless Bees
Individual forager bumblebees marked with a small number tag were exposed either to very low acute dose of glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup, or to sucrose (control). Thereafter, bees underwent five learning bouts in which they choose between artificial rewarding flowers (sucrose) or aversive flowers (quinine). Experimental bees were individually allowed to enter the arena with 10 different color flowers (two of each color) with a drop of sucrose or quinine. During the five learning bouts control bees learned to differentiate between the rewarding and aversive flowers, and two days later they were able to remember all they had learned. However, learning of the Roundup exposed bees was declined within few hours from the exposure, and two days later in a memory test they had lost everything they had learned. (University of Turku, NewsX/Bee)
Researchers ‘Worried’ As Roundup ‘Affects Bumblebees’ Memory’
Picture shows a sample site high in the woodland canopy, undated. The treetops of forests in eastern England might be more popular among bees than previously assumed, a new study suggests. (University of East Anglia, NewsX/Bee)