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Dopamine Drives Bee Desires: Study
Like in humans, the neurotransmitter appears to play a role in generating wanting-like behavior and, perhaps, happy memories in honeybees.
Dopamine Drives Bee Desires: Study
Dopamine Drives Bee Desires: Study

Like in humans, the neurotransmitter appears to play a role in generating wanting-like behavior and, perhaps, happy memories in honeybees.

Like in humans, the neurotransmitter appears to play a role in generating wanting-like behavior and, perhaps, happy memories in honeybees.

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Honeybee Microbes Shape the Colony’s Social Behavior
Max Kozlov | Jan 1, 2021 | 4 min read
Recent research shows that the insect’s microbial community is central to protecting the hive from invaders—both big and small.
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Researchers Try to Head Off “Murder Hornets” Coming into US
Shawna Williams | May 4, 2020 | 2 min read
Asian giant hornets were found for the first time in Washington State and could reemerge in the spring.
Once Is Enough For Long-Term Memory Formation in Bees
Ruth Williams | May 1, 2020 | 3 min read
Honeybees can remember reward-associated odors three days after a single learning experience.
Infographic: Quick Learners
Ruth Williams | May 1, 2020 | 1 min read
Honeybees can remember reward-associated odors three days after a single learning experience.
Engineered Microbe in Bees’ Guts Fends off Deadly Varroa Mite
Lisa Winter | Jan 31, 2020 | 2 min read
The genetically modified bacteria spark an RNAi response in the parasite that leads to self-destruction—and perhaps a path to combatting colony collapse disorder.
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Winter Bee Declines Greatest in 13 Years: Survey
Ashley P. Taylor | Jul 1, 2019 | 2 min read
US honeybee colonies took the largest hit since the Bee Informed Partnership started counting in 2006.
Image of the Day: Seeing is Bee-lieving
Carolyn Wilke | Feb 22, 2019 | 1 min read
Four decades after it was thought to have disappeared in the wild, scientists have found a single female Wallace’s giant bee in Indonesia.
Honeybees Enter Virtual Reality So Scientists Can Study Their Brains
Jess Romeo | Feb 14, 2019 | 3 min read
Researchers record neurological changes in a region called the mushroom body in the brains of bees completing a maze in a virtual environment.
Bees Stopped Buzzing During the 2017 Eclipse
Catherine Offord | Oct 11, 2018 | 2 min read
The insects fell silent as the moon cast a shadow over parts of North America last summer, researchers report.
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Image of the Day: All in a Day’s Work
Shawna Williams | Oct 8, 2018 | 1 min read
A bee researcher finds that his subjects are protected from viral infections when they dine on fungus.
As Bees Specialize, So Does Their DNA Packaging
Shawna Williams | Sep 11, 2018 | 3 min read
A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.
Bees’ Molecular Responses to Neonicotinoids Determined
Catherine Offord | Mar 22, 2018 | 4 min read
Researchers pinpoint a protein that can metabolize at least one of the insecticides, highlighting a route to identifying compounds that are friendlier to the critical pollinators.
War Dance of the Honeybee
Karl Gruber | Feb 1, 2018 | 2 min read
One species has developed a novel waggle to warn about invading wasps.
Bees Under Attack
The Scientist Staff | Jan 31, 2018 | 1 min read
Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) respond to an attack by a Vespa mandarinia wasp.
Pesticides Reduce Male Honeybee Fertility: Study
Ashley P. Taylor | Jul 27, 2016 | 3 min read
Drones exposed to neonicotinoids have fewer viable sperm and show reduced longevity.
Behavior Brief
Catherine Offord | Feb 11, 2016 | 5 min read
A round-up of recent discoveries in behavior research
Phytochemical Helps Differentiate Workers from Queen Bees
Ashley P. Taylor | Aug 28, 2015 | 3 min read
The consumption of p-coumaric acid, a chemical found in honey and pollen, may help set a female honeybee on its course to becoming a worker instead of a queen.
Genome Digest
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | Aug 26, 2014 | 5 min read
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Recent Decline in Honeybee Deaths
Kerry Grens | May 19, 2014 | 1 min read
Fewer commercial pollinators died over the winter than during the same season the preceding year.
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