Culture refers to behaviours that are socially learned and persist within a population over time. Increasing evidence suggests that animal culture can, like human culture, be cumulative: characterized by sequential innovations that build on previous ones1. However, human cumulative culture involves behavi...
We found declines in all measures of biodiversity especially in the last 3 years, though additional years of sampling are needed to say if changes over time are part of a larger trend. Analyses of population dynamics over time for the 40 most abundant species indicate that about one third ...
Bee Population Decline The oldest known bee fossil is estimated to be over 135 million years old (The Xerces Society). Knowing this, one would certainly realize the importance of the relationship between plants and bees, as they have depended on each other for survival for such an immense peri...
DWV type B was also recently found to dominate the DWV population in honey bees from an isolated apiary in Swindon, UK (Mordecai et al., 2016); to the apparent exclusion of any other master variants. In honey bee populations that have never been exposed to Varroa mites, DWV exists in a...
we could decrease uncertainty around our estimates of population trends. We hope we can move this research forward by developing a dedicated BeeWalk smartphone app to help volunteers carry out their work thereby collecting even better-quality data and creating a new class of more sophisticated statis...
Bumble bee population declines over the last decade have stimulated strong interest in determining causative factors and necessary conservation measures. Research attention has largely been directed toward bumble bee worker and queen health and their contributions to population stability, while male bees (...
in southern Serbia as well as the lack of distinctive geographical groups suggest that selective breeding, queen import, and migratory beekeeping practices strongly influence the genetic structure and diversity of honey bees, leading to the genetic uniformization and creation of the admixture population....
Teaching kids about bees and the role that they plan in our world is important, so that they can make decisions that will ensure that we will have a thriving bee population in the future. The more that we can teach kids about nature, animals and even insects, the better. Because what ...
"Figuring out which species are living where and how each population is doing using complex aggregated datasets can be very messy," Zattara said. "We wanted to ask a simpler question: what species have been recorded, anywhere in the world, in a given period?" ...
Here we show how to create a colony in SIMplyBee (Fig.1). ThecreateVirginQueens()function creates a base population of virgin queens (an AlphaSimR’sPopclass object) by recombining founder genomes. TheisVirginQueen()function checks whether individuals are virgin queens. A similaris*()function...