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Do you ever just wonder, “are the bees doing okay?” They’re so important to our food industry and native ecosystems, and every couple of years it seems like something horribly bad is happening to them. So this week, we’re taking a look at the fascinating lives and deaths of bees! Can they recognize human faces or understand the concept of zero? Why are blister beetles mimicking sexy bee pheromones? And what do nightclubs and honeybee hives have in common?
Sources:
[Poem]
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120316-hot-bee-balls-hornets-insects-brains-animals-science/
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/206/2/353.full.pdf
[Truth or Fail]
[Ask the Science Couch]
CCD:
https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder
Glyphosate:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799
https://www.glyphosate.eu/glyphosate-mechanism-action
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
Native bees:
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Xerces_policy_statement_HB_Final.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/
[Butt One More Thing]
Isopentyl acetate:
https://www.extension.entm.purdue.edu/beehive/pdf/Breed_et_al.pdf
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamyl_acetate#section=Top
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Do you ever just wonder, “are the bees doing okay?” They’re so important to our food industry and native ecosystems, and every couple of years it seems like something horribly bad is happening to them. So this week, we’re taking a look at the fascinating lives and deaths of bees! Can they recognize human faces or understand the concept of zero? Why are blister beetles mimicking sexy bee pheromones? And what do nightclubs and honeybee hives have in common?
Sources:
[Poem]
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120316-hot-bee-balls-hornets-insects-brains-animals-science/
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/206/2/353.full.pdf
[Truth or Fail]
[Ask the Science Couch]
CCD:
https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder
Glyphosate:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799
https://www.glyphosate.eu/glyphosate-mechanism-action
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
Native bees:
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Xerces_policy_statement_HB_Final.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/
[Butt One More Thing]
Isopentyl acetate:
https://www.extension.entm.purdue.edu/beehive/pdf/Breed_et_al.pdf
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamyl_acetate#section=Top
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