A sweet recovery: Group helps relocate endangered honeybee colony at Edmond home
The recent rescue of an endangered bee colony in Edmond highlights the important role the insect plays in our local ecosystem.
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The recent rescue of an endangered bee colony in Edmond highlights the important role the insect plays in our local ecosystem.
When 10,000 bees go house hunting, how do they cooperatively choose their new nesting site?
It is a striking irony that the study of strife in honey bee colonies, however rare, is helping us understand how strife is prevented under most conditions.
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More Fun Than Fun: What Can We Learn from Insect Societies? 17/02/2021 Thomas D. Seeley learning from honey bees. Photo: Thomas Seeley. Many insects such as ants, bees, wasps and termites organise themselves into societies with division of labour, communication, conflict, cooperation and altruism. Insect societies resemble human societies in many ways and are arguably more efficient than ours in some ways. They sustainably harvest environmental resources, engineer their environments both inside and outside their nests, practice agriculture, fight disease with a combination of indiv...