Sentences with phrase «stingless bees»

According to an article by Brazilian researchers published in 2015 in the journal Current Biology, the newborn larvae of Scaptotrigona depilis, a species of stingless bee native to Brazil, feed on filaments of a fungus cultivated in the brood cells.

They decided to investigate this behaviour in 12 stingless bee species in Brazil.

The Australian stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is notorious for inciting war, usually to usurp the hive of another.

Hendrik began working in the lab of Cal Poly microbiologist Raúl Cano, and Hendrik teamed up with his father, who eagerly gave him samples of 40 - million - year - old amber from the Dominican Republic containing stingless bees.

Parasitic beetles that invade the hive of certain stingless bees end up entombed forever in resin.

Although stingless bees have lost this heroic ability, they still suffer predation and attack from animals ranging from anteaters to other bees — and have taken to biting instead.

Protectors of the hive in one Brazilian stingless bee species look very different from their comrades

Ratnieks was inspired to study aggression in stingless bees by a casual but painful encounter in 2012.

The fights between stingless bee colonies are epic in scale, according to John Paul Cunningham of Queensland University of Technology in Australia, with «swarms from the attacking and defending hives colliding midair and fighting bees falling to the ground locked in a death grip from which neither combatant survives.»

Personally speaking, a new species always delights the soul and two new stingless bees can't get up anyone's nose.

It's all about the mimic, and its model - in this case a generalised stingless bee.

[14] An extinct species of stingless bee, Proplebeia dominicana, was found trapped in Miocene amber from about 15 - 20 million years ago.

«They're stopped in their tracks, and they dehydrate and shrivel up like a mummy,» says Mark Greco of the Swiss Bee Research Centre in Berne, who discovered this behaviour in a species of Australian stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria, living in the wild.

The Poinar team was not far behind and got its DNA from a stingless bee in amber of a similar age.

For a time, scientists were concerned that the parasite might also threaten Australia's native stingless bees (Trigona carbonaria), but it turns out these critters are made of tougher stuff than their European honeybee cousins.

Greco and Neumann report in Nature Precedings that they were able to witness the entire battle between the bees and beetles play out in high - resolution 3 - D by using a «micro CT» scanner that took snapshots of a stingless bee hive every five minutes for an hour and a half.

In contrast, the stingless bees» mummification process takes a total of 10 minutes from start to finish, at which point the beetle is completely immobilized and starves to death without any further attention from the members of the hive.

It turns out that stingless bees are better than honeybees at pollinating peppers, a commercially important crop in Australia.

Now Shackleton, working with Francis Ratnieks, also of the University of Sussex, and colleagues, have identified a new self - sacrificial behaviour in these stingless bees — biting to the point of suicide.

The previous record was jointly held by a termite and a stingless bee, imprisoned in amber from the Tertiary period.

Species: Trigona hyalinata, a stingless bee Habitat: Across the tropics of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay

While stinging is a great way to defend against larger vertebrate predators, the main threats to stingless bees are ants and other bees.

Stingless bees are closely related to their better - known cousins, the honeybees, which sacrifice their lives when they sting animals that pose a threat to the hive.

The stingless bees» aggression against others was so remarkable that the researchers monitored approximately 260 colonies of T. carbonaria in Queensland over five years to make sure they were not wrong.

While studying such skirmishes, Cunningham and his colleagues were surprised to find that the stingless bees were being attacked not only by other colonies of their own species but also by colonies of a different species entirely, Tetragonula hockingsi.

His research foci include the social insects honey bees, bumble bees and stingless bees, the unique biology of which can be used as models to decipher the genetic fundaments of environmental interaction and evolutionary innovation.

The terrain is wet and dense and dark and infested with ticks, spiders, stinging ants, malarial mosquitoes, wasps, Africanized bees, stingless bees (that can nonetheless pinch heartily), chiggers, blackflies, whiteflies (which carry leishmaniasis), and the dreaded botfly.

The ruins themselves are fun for an hour or two of exploring; Seeing what plants and animals you can spot, like these stingless bees or this dramatic tree growing out of the ruins with a bird high up in it's branches.