Cloth and Fodder has a great, indepth post about the process of making a wasp cake (it looks like Arachnospila sp. to me). The post takes you through the full process of making the cake, along the will the intricate steps and various photos. What a beautiful result! –Adrienne –Source
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(Image courtesy of SolidPerfume.com) Apartment Therapy (ever heard of them? A great read!) has an interesting article up today about becoming a backyard beekeeper. As food prices rise and people get more interested in sustainable food sources and living-off-the-land, beekeeping is going to become more and more popular in suburbs and cities. Beekeeping is actually [...]
Where there is a shortage, there is crime. Isn’t that always the way? In the wake of the latest colony collapse disorder that is haunting beekeepers and getting entomology departments grants left and right has a new effect–the rise in bee colony theft. From the San Francisco Chronicle: “As the price of pollination soars, each [...]
This is a neat group–it shows the process bees go through to make a hive. Love it! –Source
So I’m lying in bed, recouperating from my surgery, and I turn on Discovery, right into Dirty Jobs, season two, when he is in Cupertino, CA (near my house! Woo!) with The Bee Man. They remove a huge (and I mean ginormous!) bee hive from a wall of a parsonage. Check it out! source
Scientists have discovered a new way ants control their farmed food source: aphids. It has long been known that certain ant species have domesticated aphids, and use the piercing-sucking insects for their honeydew (mmmm…honeydew….). It was once thought that aphids stayed in the protection of the ants because the ants were able to fight of [...]
Scientists have discovered that the basis of eusociality (the tendency of sterile females to raise the young of a common queen) found in bees, wasps, and other social insects is genitically based. Lots of study has been done on Apis meliferia, or the European Honeybee, but very little has been done on wasps. This particular [...]
The Independentis reportingthat scientists in Poland have discovered something interesting about ants: they can predict their own deaths. Apparently the amount of carbon dixoide in their blood gives ants a heads up as to when their final time has come–and it affects their behavior. Ants that are about to die take more risks than younger [...]
