New research has found common honey bees possess highly sophisticated brains and share up to 30 per cent of the same genes as humans. A group of 17 scientists at the University of Queensland (UQ) have uncovered the findings while studying the tiny bee brain which is the size of a sesame seed. The group [...]
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A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across America, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination. The cause of these losses is an alarming phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder or “CCD”. When a hive experiences CCD, the honey bees mysteriously leave their hive [...]
