A brush fire had been reported in the Juniper Springs neighborhood of Riverside County at 12:20 p.m. that day, according to Cal Fire Riverside. That blaze, dubbed the Verona fire, prompted evacuation orders in the community of Homeland. One firefighter and one civilian sustained minor injuries in the Verona fire and were transported to a hospital for treatment.
Bees do far more than produce that sweet substance: they pollinate crops for hundreds of types of nuts, fruits and vegetables. "Even if you don't like bees themselves, you have bees to thank for the food on your table," she said. This Wednesday is World Bee Day, which was established by the United Nations in 2018 to raise awareness about the need to protect the insects.
A small, stingless bee may be able to raise coffee yields while fitting into real-world pest control programs, according to a new study from Brazil. In a field study on full-sun arabica farms, researchers reported a 67% higher fruit yield on coffee branches closer to colonies of the native stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis, compared with branches farther away. The study was recently published in Frontiers in Bee Science.
Birds throughout the US have adopted a disturbing habit that could have devastating implications for human society if it continues. Researchers have found that birds are abandoning their usual migration patterns, with warmer temperatures in their winter habitats disrupting their annual flights While delaying their yearly flight south may not sound like a major problem, a visiting scientist at Cornell University, Andrew Farnsworth, warned that it could lead to many bird species dying out and drastically altering nature.
Buzz pollination is an incredible behaviour whereby a bee will curl its body around the pollen-concealing anthers of some flowers and contract the flight muscles up to 400 times per second to produce vibrations which shake the pollen loose.
