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Sperm of ants battle inside the queens
London, March 19 (ANI): Queens of ants and bees normally obtain a lifetime supply of sperm on a single day of sexual activity, and sperm competition is expected to occur in lineages where queens receive sperm from multiple males. Now, a new research has shown that it’’s not the males that try to harm each [...]
Phulan Rani, the ageless painter of Punjab
Amritsar, Sep.11 (ANI): Defying her age, octogenarian Phulan Rani today stands as a tall figure that inspires the youth by her love for painting and deep urge to give creative expressions to her thoughts and observations of the world around her.
A resident of Amritsar, Phulan [...]
Orissa tribals adopt beekeeping business
Koraput (Orrisa), Sep 8 (ANI): Tribals in Orissa’s Kaoraput district take to apiculture to earn a living. A non- governmental organization called ‘Sarvodaya Committee’ initiated the honey collection in 1955, aided by Orissa Khadi and Village industry board.
The beekeepers collect the honeybees and keep them [...]
List of the hardest working members of animal kingdom
Washington, Sep 8 (ANI): It’s not just humans who need to work hard in order to earn a living, many wild animals too have to toil themselves throughout the year to survive.
However, some animals work harder than others, and the National Wildlife Federation has compiled a list of the hardest working members of the animal [...]
Honeybees form ‘bee balls’ to mob and smother invading hornets
London, July 5 (ANI): Honeybee hordes form “bee balls” to mob and smother their predators, giant hornets, killing them within 10 minutes of trapping, scientists have observed.
According to the journal Naturwissenschaften, honeybees use heat and carbon dioxide as part of their mechanism to guard themselves from their natural enemies.
“They can survive for 10 minutes [...]
Ageing honeybees’ learning ability remains intact when social roles are switched
Washington, July 1 (ANI): While scientists have been aware of the fact that cognitive function among humans declines as they get older, a research team in Germany have found that ageing honeybees can keep their learning ability intact or even improve it by [...]
Einstein’s ‘bee demise’ hypothesis ‘a myth’: Experts
London, May 08 (ANI): Albert Einstein once speculated that ‘if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.’ Now, scientists have described the idea as a ‘myth’.
Honeybees pollinate many of the vegetables and fruit eaten by humans and that feed livestock.
Now, researchers from Argentina [...]
Apiculture popularising in Kashmir
Hiranagar Border (Kathua), May 5 (ANI): Farmers in Hiranagar, which fal in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua District, have taken to apiculture in a big way.
Hiranagar, which is near the Indo-Pakistan border, has adopted apiculture as a profitable venture for farmers.
Farmers said that initially they started the profession with 10 boxesf honeybees, which [...]
Attacking parasite may help deal with honeybee colony collapse
Washington, Apr 16 (ANI): By isolating the parasite behind honeybee colony depopulation syndrome, also known as colony collapse disorder in the USA, scientists have found a possible cure for the infection.
Spanish researchers isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honeybee colony depopulation syndrome, and found that it could be the [...]
Honeybees change roles to avoid mid-life crisis
Washington, Apr 4 (ANI): Adding to the impressive list of bee qualities, scientists have now found that honeybees go through a metamorphosis in their mid-life and perform different social roles as they age.
Female worker bees work in the hive as they venture into adulthood, and perform tasks like taking care of the baby bees.
However, when [...]
Honeybees and bumblebees prefer flying shortest distance between two flowers
Washington, March 21 (ANI): Insects like honeybees and bumblebees prefer the shortest distance when they have to fly from one flower to another, according to an American study.
S. Alan Walters of Southern Illinois University and Jonathan R. Schultheis of North Carolina State [...]
Honeybees can count up to four
Washington, January 28 (ANI): An international team of scientists has found that honeybees can tell the difference between different numbers at a glance.
Dr. Shaowu Zhang, Chief Investigator of The Vision Centre in Australia and Professor Hans Gross and Professor Juergen Tautz of Wurzburg University in Germany, have revealed that they carried out an exquisitely [...]
