Bees
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Just like how humans recognise faces, bees are born with an innate ability to find and remember flowers
Scarlett Howard, Deakin University and Adrian Dyer, RMIT University We’ve all watched a honeybee fly past us and land on…
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What I Do For Pollinators
This year, I am putting greater importance on my pollinators habitat in my garden and doing a couple of little…
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How a bee sees: tiny bumps on flower petals give them their intense colour — and help them survive
Adrian Dyer, RMIT University and Jair Garcia, RMIT University The intense colours of flowers have inspired us for centuries. They…
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The mystery of the blue flower: nature’s rare colour owes its existence to bee vision
Adrian Dyer, RMIT University At a dinner party, or in the schoolyard, the question of favourite colour frequently results in…
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Aussie scientists need your help keeping track of bees (please)
Bees get a lot of good press. They pollinate our crops and in some cases, make delicious honey. But bees…
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Forest Garden Plants, River Irrigation, Paulownia Coppice & Garden Bees –
It has been a relaxed week here in Shipka where the main focus has stayed on the market garden, we…
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Sweet Success
Our little family – James (14), Steve and myself – have been busy turning our acre strip field on the…
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A Look at Traditional Asian Beekeeping Methods
The Asiatic honeybee, Apis cerena, is one of the native bee species in Thailand that is found throughout much of…
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Meliponas in Guatemala: The Advantages of Raising Native Bees
People have been raising bees for thousands of years. The honey they produced gave humanity its first sweet tooth, and…
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The battle against bugs: it’s time to end chemical warfare
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Lizzy Lowe, Macquarie University;…
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