Tag Archives: honey bees
Almonds Doing Selfies
Almond pollination season is over. The billions of bees working in California have moved on. They are now mostly scattered across the American plains. It’s not easy to be a bee in the almond groves during February and March. Colony … Continue reading
How Honey Bees Discovered Vaccines
Last week, the popular press was claiming that honey bees discovered vaccines millions of years before humans did. It makes great lead paragraphs for news stories, but the tale is slightly off the mark. Honey bees don’t have scientists. They … Continue reading
Posted in Bee Biology, Diseases and Pests
Tagged AFB, American Foulbrood, honey bees, immunization, vaccines, vitellogenin
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Uncommon Ancestory
Creatures change with time. You might believe that God controls, guides, or designs those changes or you may have the opinion that random acts in the environment create mutations which change a species. The former idea is accepted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Bee Biology, Genetics, Science
Tagged bumblebees, common ancestry, DNA, evolution, honey bees
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Russian plane attacked by bees
The newspaper call it an attack. But we know better. The story being carried around the world yesterday is that a group of honey bees decided to attack a passenger plane (an Airbus-319, no less… that’s just a small step … Continue reading
Posted in Strange, Odd Stuff, Swarms
Tagged Airbus-319, honey bees, Moscow, Russia, St Petersburg
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