Picture shows Male Xanthesma (Xenohesma) brachycera, undated. Two different Australian bee species are actually males and females of one type, DNA tests have revealed. (CURTIN UNIVERSITY, NewsX/Bee)
The bee's optomotor response is tested by showing videos of horizontally moving vertical bars to her on two screens, creating the illusion of optic flow in undated photo. Researchers in the United Kingdom have used an insect version of the straight-line walking challenge to show for the first time that insecticides damage the nervous system of honeybees. (RH Parkinson, C Fecher, and JR Gray, NewsX/Bee)
Oxford Study Confirms Pesticides’ Harmful Impact On Bees
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)