Not exact matches
The pile of
dead bees ended up revealing a previously unrecognized suspect in colony collapse disorder — a mysterious condition that for several years has been causing declines in U.S. honeybee populations,
which are needed to pollinate many important crops.
In a 2017 study, they discovered two pheromones, called oleic acid and beta - ocimene,
which are only released by
dead bee larvae.
Guest journalists and Nissan reps alike either froze, hoping to trick the
bees into thinking they were already
dead, or began to swat away, flail about, shout, stomp and just plain curse the little mothers,
which is what we did.
Rockstar Games, developer of blockbuster games like Grand Theft Auto and Red
Dead Redemption, contributed this unsettling piece to the Take Cover project,
which forms the studio's logo out of snakes, ants, and
bees.
In fact, another study published earlier this year in PLoS ONE, found that
dead bees in Indiana,
which had perished from Colony Collapse Disorder, had several different neonicotinoid pesticides in their systems.