Football legend and king of the jungle Harry Redknapp has joined forces with Sports Direct to help save bumblebees from extinction. Within the UK, two important bumblebee species are already extinct, eight are in need of urgent help and we have lost 97% of the grasslands that bumblebees rely on […]
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Bumblebees spread behaviour through social learning Shutterstock/Kuttelvaserova Stuchelova Bumblebees can teach each other how to solve a puzzle box, and they prefer the method their sisters teach them rather than those they learn on their own. This adds to evidence that these insects are capable of social learning, and they […]
Buff-tailed bumblebees seem to prefer to play with wooden balls rather than simply bypass them en route to a snack Life 2 November 2022 By Corryn Wetzel Bumblebees play, possibly just for the fun of it. The insects repeatedly chose to roll wooden balls in an experiment despite having no […]
Bumblebees blocking the path from your house to your car? No problem. New research suggests an interesting, and extremely entertaining, way to ward them off. Hand the critters a tiny wooden ball and they might become preoccupied enough to stop terrorizing your morning commute. On Thursday, a team of researchers […]
Bumblebees exposed to glyphosate performed worse in tests that required them to remember which colours were linked to rewards Environment 21 October 2022 By Gary Hartley A buff-tailed bumblebee Ed Brown Wildlife/Alamy Bumblebees exposed to the world’s most popular type of weedkiller found it harder to learn and remember colours […]
Early springs caused by climate change could kill off bumblebees: Insects now wake up 35 days EARLIER from hibernation before flowers have bloomed, study shows The study found 15 out of the 21 bumblebee species studied in North America are waking earlier due to early spring caused by climate change […]
Streptomycin, an antibiotic used to treat bacterial diseases in apple orchards, might have a negative impact on bee foraging behaviour Life 23 February 2022 By Gary Hartley A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) Clarence Holmes Wildlife/Alamy Exposure to streptomycin, an antibiotic used to treat crop diseases in the US, weakens […]
You’ve got to bee kidding me! Bumblebees are ‘streetwise’ and learn the bare minimum about where to land to find food, study finds Researchers led from the University of Exeter presented bees with fake flowers Each comprised a circle coloured either blue, yellow, or a combination of both The bees […]