Are bumble bees… BIGTIME PLAYAS?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Play behavior is common in mammals and birds. But insects??? Hiruni Samadi Galpayage Dona and team investigated whether bumble bees play. They gave forty-five bees tiny wooden balls with no food and no incentive. Still,
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Can we afford this BUZZ TOWN?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Are bee habitats getting GENTRIFIED? Today’s urban gardens are full of harvest crops and ornamental flowers. Better place for bees than an empty lot with unkempt weeds, right? RIGHT? Enter Frances Sivakoff and
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A vaccine for bees? You’re POLLEN my leg. This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Our food supply depends on honey bee pollination. However, bees are threatened by climate change and diseases. We want to protect bees from infection, death, and eventual colony collapse. Can we
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That first heady sip of coffee–yess! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. I can’t get my day started without my cup of joe! Do other creatures get a boost from a caffeine buzz? Enter Sarah Arnold from the University of Greenwich and team! They wanted
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Bob the Builder – meet Bee the Builder! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Picture a beautiful honeycomb made of hexagonal cells. Honeybees build cells in two sizes. Small for worker bees and large for male reproductive bees. How do they make the most of
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“Make new friends, but keep the old” – but what if you move 10,000 miles away?? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Foxgloves are purple or white bell-shaped flowers native to Europe. They hang off the stem, like fruits, and have short tubes that store
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Vaccinate your … BEES?!!!!!?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Bees are essential to our food supply and planet. However, our buzzing little friends can get sick just like us. Some diseases can wipe out an entire hive! How can we save them? Fear not,
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Why does this place have so much BUZZ anyway?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Would you rather live in an empty lot, full of scraggly shrubs, or a beautiful urban garden? WAIT, plot twist… you’re a BEE. Where would you make your bee-home in
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You can count on … BEES?!?! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. Let’s split an order of HONEY barbecue wings. Wait. 5 wings, for 2 people…Someone – NOT ME… is getting shortchanged. But are we the only species that can tell odd from even? Enter
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That first heady sip of coffee–yess! This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. I can’t get my day started without my cup of joe! Do other creatures get a boost from a caffeine buzz? Enter Sarah Arnold from the University of Greenwich and team! They wanted
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