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Tag Archives: behaviour
Harvard study links pesticides to bee deaths
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in honeybees (Apis mellifera) can be linked with low-dose insecticides. Philip Case at the UK magazine Farmers Weekly tells us about research in the States, where CCD is a huge problem. This is a serious matter … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged academia, America, apiculture, arthropod, Bayer, behaviour, clothianidin, colony collapse disorder, Europe, honeybee, hymenopteran, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, law, microsporidian, neonicotinoid, Nosema ceranae, parasite, pesticide, pollination, research, Syngenta, thiamethoxam
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Leave Them Bee- The Honeybees That Fearfully Avoid Hornets
argylesock says… Don’t scare the bees! We need pollinators for crops and wild plants. There are many pollinating insects but one of those is the European honeybee (Apis mellifera). There are many kinds of hornet too, including the Asian hornet … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, Asian hornet, behaviour, entomoculture, honeybee, hornet, hymenopteran, insect, invasive species, pollination, predator, research
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Neonicotioids V: Insecticides and Bad Behavior
Originally posted on Living With Insects Blog:
Honey Bee Hives The effects of insecticides on insects have been extensively studied. At high enough doses, insects will die. At lower doses, insects may survive, but present physiological and behavioral changes. Insecticides…
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged arthropod, behaviour, conservation, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, neonicotinoid, pesticide, research, wild bee
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Badger sleeping habits could help target TB control
At Exeter University, scientists have found evidence that badgers sleeping in ‘outlying’ setts are more likely than other badgers to carry bovine tuberculosis. This is serious research but I just have to call these badgers ‘dirty stop-outs’.
Honeybees and Varroa mites
I’m grateful to my fellow blogger narhvalur for pointing out this article about how the honey bee (Apis mellifera) seems to fight back against the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor). V. destructor lives down to its scary name. It’s associated with … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, behaviour, colony collapse disorder, disease, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, invertebrate, knowledge, larva, mite, parasite, pollination, research, Varroa destructor, vector, virus
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Learning from other organisms
If something works, it’s probably been developed already by natural selection. So we humans can learn from other organisms. My fellow blogger Anthropogen drew my attention to bee-brained robots. I like it that these tiny robots might prove useful as … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, beast of burden, behaviour, colony collapse disorder, disease, evolution, farm, honeybee, human, hymenopteran, pollination, poverty, research, technology, war
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Breeding the honeybee?
In recent years, hives of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) have been devastated in the States, European countries and Japan by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). It’s a serious matter because we need bees to pollinate crops and wild plants. CCD isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, behaviour, breeding, colony collapse disorder, disease, evolution, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, invertebrate, knowledge, mite, parasite, pollination, research, selective breeding
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Ducks’ welfare on the farm
If you buy animal products to eat, in Britain you can look for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)’s Freedom Food logo. I do. It’s on meat and also on other animal products. Sometimes there’s … Continue reading
Like a duck to water
Today my fellow bloggers at Animal Connection drew attention to cruelty on British duck farms. If, like me, you enjoy eating duck – even if you never eat it – you might want to sign a petition with the Royal … Continue reading
Migrating geese avoid windfarms
There’s evidence that pink-footed geese change their flight patterns to avoid offshore wind turbines near Britain. I’m grateful to another WP blogger, Ann Novek, for telling me about this.
Posted in ecology
Tagged behaviour, bird, conservation, energy, goose, migration, native species, non-passerine, pink-footed goose, sea, vertebrate, waterbird, wildlife, wind, wind farm
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