Surprise Strategy: Bees Smother Enemies
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Cyprian honeybees don&#39;t smother their enemies with kindness&mdash;they just smother them to death, research now reveals.  This novel strategy has never been seen before in insects, &quot;and probably in all animal species,&quot; apidologist Gerard Arnold at the National Center of Scientific Research in France, told LiveScience.  Cyprian honeybees (Apis mellifera cypria) do possess stingers to defend themselves. However, their archenemy, the Oriental hornet (Vespa orientalis), is protected from such attacks by their hard body armor. ...
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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Unusual insects are clinging to survival against threats from pollution and climate change, say conservationists.
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Life & style: Leaving patches of your garden to run wild creates a rich habitat for nesting bumblebees - and could help reverse the rapid decline in their population, writes Stephen Moss.
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A tiny pest is decimating honeybee colonies across the country, worrying beekeepers and farmers who depend on the insects to pollinate their crops.
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I saw it when I popped the lid of the supers - I couldn't have missed it, being nearly the size of my palm.  A common orb spider, hiding in these old unused honey supers.  It and about eighty more of its kind have built webs all around my equipment.  I spent the most of a week fighting them.  Now I see that there are some important lessons to be learned.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.) - Phreaks, spoofers and spammers want to invade your home computer, and the tricks of their trade include airsnarfs, wabbits and fork bombs.
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Bee Staff Writer. SAN DIEGO - Mike Leach noticed all the markings in fall drills, then the Texas Tech coach known as &quot;The Strange One&quot; wondered if they come off with a good scrubbing.
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The natural world was the focus of much nanotechnology and energy research. Robots, meanwhile, were learning to mimic crabs and bees.
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It's possible to work out effective countermeasures if your enemy sticks with specific tactics. But if your foe is a terrorist with the innate ability to think and adapt, things get a little more tricky.
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A virus has emerged as the unanticipated suspect in the mysterious decline of North American bees.
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After losing a fight crayfish can remember who beat them, and may steer clear of another fight against the same opponent.
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A bee trapped by a glob of sap inside a come-hither orchid up to 20 million years ago has rewritten the evolutionary tale of a flower with the most fanatical following of any plant in the world.
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Field crickets on the island of Kauai rapidly evolved to have femalelike wings to avoid a parasitic fly that finds its prey by sound, new research reveals.
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A PREDATORY robot devised by British scientists could generate its own energy by catching and digesting flies. Called EcoBot II, the creation is part of a drive to make &quot;forget and release&quot; robots that could
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Weather forecasts are notoriously  fickle, but bees, caterpillars and bears are proving as divided  as meteorologists on how long winter will last.
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NEW YORK  - Bee stings have long been known to relieve some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, but only now has the reason for this been clarified.