New research by the University of Washington and the UA shows that background odors can interfere with pollinators’ ability to find flowers.
Car and truck exhaust fumes that foul the air for humans also cause problems for pollinators. (more…)
A story about bees at a world famous art museum.
Bees are artists
Patrons at the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus are in little danger of being stung by honeybees, despite their close proximity to 100,000 of them. Bees basically mind their own business, and they have much to attend to. (more…)
Scientists seeking to understand the origin of the human mind may want to look to honeybees — not ancestral apes — for at least some of the answers, according to a University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist.
CU-Boulder Research Associate John Hoffecker said there is abundant fossil and archaeological evidence for the evolution of the human mind, including its unique power to create a potentially infinite variety of thoughts expressed in the form of sentences, art and technologies. He attributes the evolving power of the mind to the formation of what he calls the “super-brain,” or collective mind, an event that took place in Africa no later than 75,000 years ago. (more…)
