Single gene in bees separates queen from workers

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 14:11

Scientists have identified how a single gene in honey bees separates the queens from the workers.

Bees fitted with camera backpacks to check why colonies are collapsing

Last Updated: Thursday, January 16, 2014, 13:26

Researchers have fitted bees with tiny sensors so that they can monitor and study their drastically diminishing populations.

Australian scientists microchip bees to map movements, halt diseases

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 19:22

Australian scientists are gluing tiny sensors onto thousands of honey bees to track their movements in a trial aimed at halting the spread of diseases that have wiped out populations in the northern hemisphere.

Bees navigate using `light` in the sky

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 21:53

Bees use a pattern of light in the sky invisible to humans to direct one another to a honey source, scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have found.

Decoded: How honey bees determine sex

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 31, 2013, 14:52

The truth behind the unique sex-determination system in honeybees - where males develop from unfertilised eggs and females develop from fertilised eggs - is out.

Human hunting behaviour similar to sharks and bees

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 18:41

Human hunter-gatherers employed the same foraging movements as used by many other animals such as sharks and honey bees when hunting, a new study has found.

Human hunting behaviour similar to sharks and honey bees

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 12:38

A team of anthropologists has found that the Hadza tribe`s movements while foraging can be described by a mathematical pattern called a Levy walk, a pattern that also is found in the movements of many other animals like sharks and honey bees.

Bees underwent extinction same time as dinos 65 mln yrs ago

Last Updated: Thursday, October 24, 2013, 12:47

A new study claimed that bees also underwent massive extinction when dinosaurs did millions of years ago.

Ants more closely related to bees than most wasps

Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 18:55

Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps, scientists have discovered.

Gene that helps honey bees find flowers unravelled

Last Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 18:43

Scientists have discovered a new gene which they say helps honey bees to detect nutrients in flowers and find their way back home.

`Anamika` not copy of any film: Mudit Nayar

Last Updated: Saturday, April 13, 2013, 14:09

The plot of TV show ‘Anamika’ bears strong resemblance to the 1988 film ‘Bees Saal Baad’, but lead actor Mudit Nayar says the story of the show is developed on a regular basis, and it is not copied from anywhere.