Did you ever wonder how bumblebees survive all of winter, even underneath snow and ice? And when the spring thaw arrives, how do they survive floods and rain? A recent study published in Proceedings ...
OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. – At the Tahoe Environmental Research Center’s (TERC) “Ski with a Scientist” event, Dr. Rachel Vannette spoke to the Tribune on her lab’s exciting research on how bees survive ...
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Where do bees and wasps go in the winter?
Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...
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Cuckoo bees. The nest thieves of the bee world
Most people picture bees as hard workers gathering pollen and building nests. Many species do exactly that. But a surprising ...
Like other insects, individual bees survive our harsh winters in diapause, overwintering in different stages of their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Those individuals survive safe from the ...
New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should ...
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