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How stingless bees in the Amazon became the first insects with legal rights
Learn how stingless bees quietly sustain Amazonian forests — and how a new law is changing what happens when they’re harmed.
A Peruvian scientist and her team are working together to make sure stingless bees are around for generations to come by ...
They are found in tropical regions across the world, and about half of the 500 known species live in the Amazon ...
Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...
Bees are frequently associated with large queen-serving colonies featuring hundreds if not thousands of insects. In actuality, that’s usually not the case. “Most bees are solitary. They lay their eggs ...
Southern Living on MSN
Where Do Bees And Wasps Go In The Winter?
Curious where bees and wasps go in winter? Learn how these buzzing insects survive the cold months and what happens to hives and nests until spring.
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Fossils Suggest That Some Ancient Burrowing Bees Made Their Homes in Rodent Skulls
While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...
ZME Science on MSN
Ancient Bees Turned a Gruesome Bone Graveyard into a Cozy Home
The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served ...
Bones of now extinct species became a haven for bee babies thousands of years ago, scientists report in a first-of-its-kind ...
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Why Drunk Bees Aren’t Allowed Back in the Hive Until They Sober Up
Bees can get drunk from fermented nectar, and guard bees may eject intoxicated foragers to protect the hive from harm.
The weather is cold so what is happening to the bees? Bees go into the hive in a ball called a cluster. As the temperature ...
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