by The Bee Effect | Sep 9, 2019 | Honey Bee Facts, News
by The Bee Effect | Mar 22, 2019 | Honey Bee Facts, News
It is always a rather complicated exercise to explain the workings of the honey bee colony and the different roles that honey bees play through the course of their lives and especially difficult to communicate the pure brilliance that these superorganisms are. ...
by The Bee Effect | Feb 23, 2019 | Honey Bee Facts, News
In an interesting review published in Science Direct on pollinator decline globally, the plight of honey bees, Apis mellifera L. has too been explored in context, with referenced research supporting the conclusions. Highlighting the “dreadful state of insect...
by The Bee Effect | Feb 18, 2019 | Honey Bee Facts, News
The key to breeding disease-resistant honeybees could lie in a group of genes—known for controlling hygienic behaviour—that enable colonies to limit the spread of harmful mites and bacteria, according to genomics research conducted at York University. Some worker...
by Eve Puttergill | Jan 14, 2019 | Honey Bee Facts, World Bee Day
I was fascinated by the discovery of a bee by American scientist George Poinar, a zoology professor at Oregon State University, that was 100 million years old and trapped in Amber in an amber mine in the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar (Burma). Uniquely it is...
