La qualité des spermatozoïdes des abeilles solitaires chute après l’exposition à de fortes chaleurs pendant leur croissance. Ces pollinisatrices sont cruciales pour la culture de nombreux fruits.
- Senior Lecturer in Zoology, University of Hull
Sperm activity in bees dropped after being exposed to heatwave conditions.
When you’re an animal undercover, sometimes it’s not enough just to look like someone else
If you’ve ever struggled with chores while your freeloading siblings looked on, you might relate to these tiny insects.
Penelitian baru menunjukkan lebah tanpa sengat akan membunuh ratu mereka jika dia salah memilih pasangan.
First ever feeding experiments reveal that solitary bees need to carb-load – and can be picky when it comes to dieting.
New research shows stingless bees will assassinate their queen if she makes the wrong royal match.
The perils of bug parenting.
You can get out from behind the sofa, reports of an invasion of mutant insects are exaggerated.
Why human fathers are worth celebrating.
In his 1879 account of wanderings in the Orient, the travel writer James Hingston describes how, in West Java, he was treated to a bizarre experience: I am taken by my kind host around his garden, and…
The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which James Gilbert, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, explained weird and stunning insect reproductive strategies…
Handcuffs, spikes and traps – you would think they were part of some bondage aficionado’s bedroom collection. But what are they doing in the insect world? A new study I worked on sheds light on why some…
It is fair to say we belong to a species obsessed by sex. We are among the only species to have sex for fun, not just for reproduction. For some other species, though, sex is far from fun. In fact, as…
Worker ants are a funny old bunch, of many shapes and sizes. But they tend to get bigger and smaller much more often than evolving entirely new shapes, according to a new study. While most animals juggle…
Accusations of scientific bias are the new catch-all weapon for anti-science commentators and climate deniers. Why are they effective? New research shows they may exploit part of our psychology. Climate…
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