SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Honeybees are being threatened and attacked by a parasite that actually lays its eggs in their bodies. When they're infected, the bees exhibit a "Living Dead" type of behavior. Now ...
It was a dark December night, which is why the lights were on outside the biology building at San Francisco State University, where a professor named John Hafernik studies bees, butterflies, beetles, ...
Tiny parasitic flies are threatening honeybee populations by turning the bees zombie-like, lurching and staggering around and sometimes abandoning their hives, researchers say. Such "zombees" have ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A few years ago, John Hafernik detected in the walls of his house a thrumming hive of honeybees. He didn’t place a frantic call to ...
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What's the best way to celebrate the spookiest time of year? By doing some citizen science! In the spirit of the season, we’re highlighting five projects on SciStarter that impart science with a ...
Biologists at San Francisco State University have begun tagging so-called 'Zombees' with tiny radio trackers, to better understand when they abandon their hives and where they go when they do. A ...