Caring about bees & biodiversity

Caring about bees & biodiversity

The Global Assessment of Nature Report draws on 15,000 reference materials and has been compiled by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). This article draws from a number of the topics in this report. Our lives...
How do bees find flowers?

How do bees find flowers?

Bees fly at about 15mph, so how can they find flowers when flying so quickly? It turns out that bee vision works about 5 times faster than human vision and is one of the fastest in the animal kingdom. So if a bee went to the cinema they would see the movie as a series...
Learning from honeybees

Learning from honeybees

Collective decisions are essential to the survival of a honeybee colony because no individual bee succeeds unless the whole colony survives and reproduces. When house hunting, worker honeybees, show us solutions to the dilemma of how to make effective decisions as a...