Illustrative image of hives, undated. An apiarist who manages two million honeybees has said humans should take the social insects' demeanour and interaction as an example. (Thomas Hochwarter, NewsX/Bee)
Picture shows a honey bee waggle dancing (bee in center), undated. The waggle dance performed by honeybees to pass on vital information is part of their social learning portfolio, research by scientists in the United States has found. (Heather Broccard Bell, NewsX/Bee)
Honeybee Waggle Dance Found To Be A Social Learning Skill
Picture shows Till Backhaus - the state's social democratic minister for agriculture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, undated. He pledged to support the implementation of further measures to support honeybees and other pollinators such as the numerous solitary bee species. (NewsX/Bee)
Beekeeping Boom In Northeastern Germany
Picture shows Martin Giurfa, an expert on Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Insects, undated. The study - established by Prof Giurfa and four co-authors - entitled "An insect brain organizes numbers on a left-to-right mental number line" has been published by the scientific magazine PNAS. (NewsX/Bee)
Honeybees Are Able To Order Numbers, Study Reveals
Picture shows a bee on flower, undated. Honeybees and other pollinators are substantially stabilising the production of food, according to an examination by scientists at Reading University. (Louise Truslove, University of Reading, NewsX/Bee)
Pollination Helps Keeping Food Production Stable, Research Reveals
Illustrative image of a man harvesting honey, undated. (NewsX/BF)