This article was first published on The Scientist Honeybees can remember reward-associated odors three days after a single learning experience. With their tiny brains and renowned ability to memorize nectar locations, honeybees are a favorite model organism for studying learning and memory. Such research has indicated that to form long-term memories—ones that last a day …
This article was first published on The Conversation Honey bees are under extreme pressure. Beekeepers in the US have been losing and then replacing an average of 40% of their honey bee colonies every year since 2010, a rate that is probably unsustainable and would be unacceptable in other kinds of husbandry. The biggest contributor to this …
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This article was first published on the Wall Street Journal Honey-bee venom may be as effective as standard drug therapy for treating enlarged prostate, a common, but benign, condition in older men, suggests an animal study published online in Experimental Biology and Medicine. A month of bee-venom injections significantly suppressed symptoms of enlarged prostate, termed …
This article was first published on Times Live. Adam Wilson walks through fynbos ahead of his 2023 collaboration with Nasa to monitor the greater Cape floristic region’s biodiversity.Image: Adam Wilson Think of Nasa and the images that spring to mind are probably rocket launches or the International Space Station. Certainly not fynbos. But in 2023, the US …
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This article was first published on National Post written but Bart Biesemans from Reuters. It can take hours or days to get a COVID-19 test result, but the response from the bees is immediate. Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding …
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This article was first published on IOL Cape Town – Gum trees, regarded in South Africa as bad aliens that invade indigenous vegetation and suck up huge amounts of scarce water, have an indirect but crucial role to play in South Africa’s food production. A recent study by the SA National Biodiversity Institute (Sanbi) has …
This article, written by James Kingsland, was first published in MedicalNewsToday In laboratory studies, the active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two types of breast cancer cells that are particularly difficult to treat. Crucially, the toxin left healthy cells unharmed. For thousands of years, humans have used honey, propolis, and venom from the European …
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This article, written by Thomas D. Seeley was first published in Literary Hub. The bas-relief sculptures depicting beekeeping in the Egyptian temple to the sun god Re at Abū Jirāb show us that honey bees were already living under the care of people some 4,500 years ago, but these sculptures do not reveal when the first …
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This article, written by James Kingsland, was first published in The Conversation. New research hints at how the hive picks which flowers to feast on When you try to pick a restaurant with a group of friends, how do you decide? Your curious friend wants to try the new place, while your focused friend wants …
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