BEES' ROLES AFFECT THEIR MEMORIES

Animal Cognition: Bumble Bees Suffer ‘False Memories’

The existence of 'false memories', where individuals remember events that they have never actually experienced, is well established in humans. Now a new study reports that insects similarly form illusory memories through merging of memory traces.

Crab spiders affect flower visitation by bees

In a field experiment, the bumblebee, B. ternarius, visited milkweed patches harboring crab spiders, Misumena atia, at a lower frequency than patches free of crab spiders, and honeybees showed a similar but non-significant trend. Two other bumblebee species, B. terricola and B. agans, did not avoid the spider patches. The latter two species are larger than B. ternarius and honeybees and suffer ...

Africanized bees extend their distribution in California

Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera) arrived in the western hemisphere in the 1950s and quickly spread north reaching California in the 1990s. These bees are highly defensive and somewhat more difficult to manage for commercial purposes than the European honey bees traditionally kept. The arrival of these bees and their potentially replacing European bees over much of the state is thus of gr...

Bees: Their Nests and Nesting Sites

Genotype and phenotype of COVID-19: Their roles in pathogenesis

COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus with an outbreak of unusual viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China, and then pandemic. Based on its phylogenetic relationships and genomic structures the COVID-19 belongs to genera Betacoronavirus. Human Betacoronaviruses (SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, and MERS-CoV) have many similarities, but also have differences in their genomic and phenotypic structure that can influence th...