Bees offer insights into many scientific questions, from cooperating in close quarters to strategies for finding food.
- Ph.D. Candidate, School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
One bee may lay thousands of offspring in late spring. Give her room to build a nest and manage her reproductive duties.
Humans obtain bacteria through the foods they eat. But how do bees collect bacteria that live in and on them? And where do they pick up these microbes?
‘Bee-washing,’ marketing claims that purport to help bees, can diminish the important distinction between a honey bee and native bee.
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