The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research.
The University of Minnesota Bee Lab (www.extension.umn.edu/honeybees) is a cutting-edge center of bee research that offers instructional pamphlets and courses.
By 1960, Eva felt there was a wealth of new bee research that needed to be disseminated.
A graduate student Mia Park works on the native bee research project.
What happened: This article profiles the Urban Pollination Project (UPP) – a Seattle initiative to get community gardeners to help with the University of Washington's bee research.
Winston integrates into his discussion the results of recent studies, bringing into sharp focus topics of current bee research.
She uses her background in bee research to teach children about how scientists classify organisms, how bees and other animals pollinate plants, and how insects develop, among other lessons.
All told, the United States has about 2.5 million managed colonies, "plus an unknown number of feral hives," said Dr. Mark F. Feldlaufer, an entomologist at the Agriculture Department's bee research laboratory in Beltsville, Md. Of course, like their picnic-scamming and bloodsucking relations in the insect world, bees are not amenable to being managed.
The Biology of the Honey Bee not only reviews the basic aspects of social behavior, ecology, anatomy, physiology, and genetics, it also summarizes major controversies in contemporary honey bee research, such as the importance of kin recognition in the evolution of social behavior and the role of the well-known dance language in honey bee communication.
Another long-simmering debate in bee research is how accurately bees learn the directions to a food source from each others' waggle dances.
For every tweet labeled #HelpHoneyBees, Häagen-Dazs will donate $1 for honey bee research at the University of California, Davis, up to $3500.
