Seonglae ChoFarmers turn to tech as bees struggle to pollinate
With bee populations struggling, mechanical pollination may be increasingly needed as a back-up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66807456
Bee Vaccine
How does the world's first vaccine for honeybees work? "It's like magic"
There is hope the recent bee vaccine breakthrough will pave the way for other vaccines to control various kinds of harmful viruses and pests.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/first-vaccine-honeybees-its-like-magic/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17
A Bee Cloned Itself Millions of Times Over the Last 30 Years
Sexual reproduction is the closest thing most living beings have to immortality. But there's a creature on this Earth who takes it one step closer to the ideal. Worker honeybees of the South African variety can clone themselves, one of whom did so, many millions of times, for 30 years, according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B .
https://interestingengineering.com/bee-cloned-itself-millions-of-times-30-years
"Vulture bees" evolved a taste for flesh-and their microbiomes reflect that
Ask a random person to picture a bee, and they'll likely conjure up the familiar black-and-yellow striped creature buzzing from flower to flower collecting pollen to bring back to the hive. But a more unusual group of bees can be found "slicing chunks of meat from carcasses in tropical rainforests," according to the authors of a new paper published in the journal mBio.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/carnivorous-vulture-bees-have-acidic-microbiomes-to-better-digest-their-carrion/
