Silence of the Bees: New Report Shows Modest Decline in Colony Losses (May 27, 2009)
New numbers suggest that bees may be bouncing back from yearly declines, but experts remain concerned about their future.

New numbers suggest that bees may be bouncing back from yearly declines, but experts remain concerned about their future.
In the winter of 2006, millions of bees vanished from their hives without a trace. The epidemic set researchers scrambling to discover why honeybees were dying in record numbers -- and to stop the epidemic in its tracks before it spread further.
The queen termite is an egg-laying machine, producing an egg every three seconds from her enormous, pulsating abdomen.
Check out this high-speed video footage of hummingbirds catching insects, which provide protein in their diet.
This forensic entomologist uses the life cycle of flies to bring killers to justice.
A team of scientists calculates precisely how long it takes for fly maggots to develop on a corpse.
(Part Two airs Sunday, March 15) Two great films provide an account of the inner workings of one of the last truly wild places on earth.
This video-enhanced lesson will challenge students to design and conduct scientifically valid experiments to evaluate hypotheses regarding an animal’s expected behavior in response to changes in its environment. (Grades 9-12)
Video segments from the NATURE film "Earth Navigators" feature cycles of animal migration from one part of the earth to another, including butterflies and wildebeest.
Through the science of forensic entomology, the study of insects associated with a corpse, we learn that cadaverous critters can tell us a great deal about a crime.
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