Bees are animals! I just wanted to get that out of the way because this website is about the animal-to-human relationship. People want to help bees because they have read many stories about bees struggling in the modern world because … Continue reading →
I’m going to treat bees as animals in this article (actually they are animals in any case). That’s important because beehives have been installed at HMP Warren Hill in Suffolk. They have proved to be very popular with the inmates. … Continue reading →
Locusts have been trained to detect explosives and to send back a signal wirelessly to an operator. It sounds like science fiction but locusts have an excellent sense of “smell” (they don’t use a nose to sniff the odour!). They … Continue reading →
A research project has discovered that the reason why locusts swarm and cause such devastating damage to crops is because of a pheromone that they produce. This triggers a desire to join together and form swarms. When they form a … Continue reading →
Neonicotinoid pesticides kill bees. The governments and scientists know this. They were banned in order to protect bees in various countries. In France the ban has been lifted under pressure from sugar beet growers to save their crop from a … Continue reading →
This is a neat bit of photoshopping by the guy who runs the Jasper Blue The Persian Instagram webpage. He is a good photoeditor. This creation caught my eye: In terms of the human-to-animal relationship which is the purpose of … Continue reading →
The Saharan silver ant is an amazing creature. It has amazing abilities but a small brain. They ran incredibly quickly in order to survive the heat. Their body temperature can reach 53°C. The ambient temperature can reach 60°C. They live … Continue reading →
Despite honeybees having less than 0.01% of the number of brain cells as humans, they are surprisingly dexterous with numbers. They can perform basic arithmetic. They understand the concept of zero. I’m told that some experts believe that humans did … Continue reading →
