A rare Australian bee has been spotted for the first time since 1923. It was previously believed to be extinct. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rare-australian-bee-rediscovered.html
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Quarter of all bee species missing since 1990s
A new study has revealed that 25% of all known bee species have not been seen in as much as 30 years. The global decline in bee populations has been o… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/343297/quarter-of-all-bee-species-missing-since-1990s…
A quarter of all known bee species haven’t been seen since the 1990s
The number of bee species appears to have declined sharply in the past 30 years, which could mean many types of bee are extinct or so rare that no one has recording a sighting Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2265680-a-quarter-of-all-known-bee-species-havent-been-seen-since-the-1990s/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The absurd logic of ‘this notice board is not in use’
How the pandemic forced a notice board to proclaim it is not in use, plus the best way to keep grounded according to pseudoscience and the court battle over if a bee is a fish, in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833111-000-the-absurd-logic-of-this-notice-board-is-not-in-use/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
First ‘Murder Hornet’ Nest In US Is Found In Washington State
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Remember the “murder hornets”? You know, the terrifyingly large Asian giant hornets that are threatening to wipe out the North American bee population? Entomologists with the Washington State Department of Agriculture have now located a nest of them — the first to be found in the U.S., the agency says. The nest was…
Which insects have the worst stings?
Some of the most painful stings come from tarantula hawk wasps, warrior wasps, and bullet ants. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/which-insects-have-worst-painful-stings…
Could Smart Technology Help Save the World’s Honey Bees?
CNN Business reports: Climate change, intensive agriculture, and the use of pesticides and fungicides in farming is ravaging the world’s bees. Commercial beekeepers in the United States lost 44% of their managed colonies in 2019, according to research from the University of Maryland. Now, technology startups are developing smart devices that give beekeepers access to detailed information about the state of…
Another Source of Greenhouse Gas: Abandoned Oil Wells
The Sacramento Bee published a video showing dozens of oil tankers anchored off California’s coast as the current demand for oil plummets. But looking toward the future, they’ve also published along with it a special warning from the director of the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute: California Resources Corporation, the state’s largest oil and gas producer, is the…
Strange, spiral bee combs look like fantastical crystal palaces. Now we know why.
The stingless Tetragonula bees build nests in strange, spiral shapes. New research offers a reason why. Source: https://www.livescience.com/tetragonula-spiral-bee-comb-grow-like-crystals.html
For the 1st time, a visible light explosion from a black hole merger
In recent years, black hole mergers in our universe have been detected via ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves. Now, for the first time, astronomers believe they’ve observed visible light from a black hole merger, in a peculiar 3-black-hole system. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/1st-time-visible-light-explosion-black-hole-merger…