A world without bees would be much less colourful, with fewer plants and flowers. But that's not all -- food would be in much shorter supply, and available in much less variety. While the media focuses on colony-collapse disorder and the threats to honey bees specifically, the r…
The most up-to-date and authoritative resource on the biology and evolution of solitary bees while social bees such as honey bees and bumble bees are familiar to most people, they comprise less than 10 percent of all bee species in the world. The vast majority of bees lead solit…
"Consider the bee. Equipped with a brain the size of a grass seed, a typical honeybee worker nevertheless lives collaboratively with thousands of her sisters in a complex society. Through a life span that seldom exceeds five weeks, she serves successively as brood nurse, wax pro…
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"Consider the bee. Equipped with a brain the size of a grass seed, a typical honeybee worker nevertheless lives collaboratively with thousands of her sisters in a complex society. Through a life span that seldom exceeds five weeks, she serves successively as brood nurse, wax pro…
An account of what bees actually detect with their eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, …
An account of what bees actually detect with their eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or put together features to form objects. Bees detect motion but have no perception of what it is that moves, …
