Invertebrates
- Avi Blizovsky
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Man-made nutritional mix improves bee colony health and could reduce colony collapse in commercial pollinators
- Avi Blizovsky
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International study reveals more than 500 combined factors causing global decline in insect populations and suggests not just focusing on bees and butterflies
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
New Israeli research reveals the secrets behind the swarm and shows it is not just an agricultural disaster but also a biological wonder
- Tel Aviv University
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Tel Aviv 360 Podcast: The first to discover the method were the bears and badgers, which Prof. Avraham Hefetz calls the first honey robbers. Humans discovered the method and developed the agricultural industry for raising honey bees.
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
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Why are there red anemones alongside purple, pink, and white anemones? Is this a random whim of nature, or perhaps colors that help the flowers evade hungry caterpillars? New research aims to solve the mystery
- Davidson Institute
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- Avi Blizovsky
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- Avi Blizovsky
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The discovery of the oldest fossil from the Ecdysozoa family (Uncus dzaugisi), a group of animals characterized by shedding their skin and including insects, crustaceans and nematodes, sheds light on the early evolution of animals
- Weizmann Institute
Group decision making makes ants smarter. With humans, on the other hand, sometimes it is better to be alone
- Weizmann Institute
The swallowing organ of a transparent worm reveals the potential inherent in mathematical tools for the study of biological systems
- Tel Aviv University
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- Weizmann Institute
The malaria-causing parasite exacts a bloody toll from humanity, not least thanks to its ability to produce unique, dark crystals inside our blood cells. New research fully deciphers the structure of these crystals and calcns
- Weizmann Institute
Weizmann Institute of Science scientists draw inspiration from nature in developing new materials for a greener future
- Avi Blizovsky
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Smithsonian Institution scientists compiled and analyzed an extensive genetic database, and found that some mushroom crops became completely dependent on ants 27 million years ago, a process created 65 million years ago by an event
- Avi Blizovsky
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- Avi Blizovsky
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Dung beetles use the milky way at night to navigate. Engineers used the same technique to develop an artificial intelligence sensor for low-light navigation
- Guest article
Asian tiger mosquitoes are also responsible for West Nile fever but also for other serious diseases, and the proliferation of these mosquitoes and mosquitoes in general is closely related to the climate crisis
- Avi Blizovsky
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New research has revealed that a balanced diet is essential to the health and performance of honey bees' tasks. The study shows that an unbalanced diet significantly delays the start of treatment for larvae, reduces the frequency of treatment
- Avi Blizovsky
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- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
Following the severe fires in the north, the beehives were also damaged - what might be the cost of the damage and is there anything that can be done to restore them?
- Ben-Gurion University
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The 'pipe builder' snail was awarded the title of 'environmental engineer', in light of its contribution to the construction of rocky surfaces on the coastline and reducing their rate of weathering in an effective way. It came to the brink of extinction, but researchers from Ben Gurion University succeeded
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Researchers found that caves inhabited by fruit bats were characterized by longer food chains than caves inhabited by insect bats or caves without bats
- Avi Blizovsky
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The researchers examined the relationship between sediment mixing caused, in part, by burrowing worms with a mineral called pyrite, which plays a key role in oxygen accumulation. As more pyrite is formed and buried under the mud, sand or
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
We depend on them, and not just for the honey. International Bee Day is a great opportunity to make some buzz for bees, one of the most important animals on the planet
- The science service
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As part of the Teva-Biz project shared by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Society for the Protection of Nature, a nature survey was conducted for the first time in Naot Smadar where the new dragonfly was discovered
- The science service
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The ecological environment was discovered as part of a nature survey conducted by the Society for the Protection of Nature for the Municipality of Modi'in Maccabim Re'ot and financed and accompanied by the Ministry of Environmental Protection
- Haifa University
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After a summer without jellyfish, and the enormous size of the jellyfish in the winter swarms, we expect that the coming summer will be relatively abundant in jellyfish," said Dr. Dor Edelist, a marine biologist from the University of Haifa
- Bar-Ilan University
The research insights of Yulia Rivkin from the Faculty of Life Sciences in Bar-Ilan open up an opportunity for in-depth research into the effect of stress on the nervous system
- Haifa University
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After an unusually jellyfish-free summer, a swarm of wandering filamentous jellyfish has been seen in recent days off the coast of Haifa
- Dr. Moshe Nahamani
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Satellites and drones can provide vital information that can contribute to the protection of pollinators in nature. New research examines new ways of utilizing these technologies in order to track the availability of flowers, when research
- Avi Blizovsky
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The box contains dried butterflies that were collected in the Land of Israel between the years 1863-1865 by delegations of the Anglican Church and have now been donated to the Steinhart Museum of Nature at Tel Aviv University
- Ben-Gurion University
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The shrimp has a particularly bright white color on its back and limbs that are intended to attract fish, which it 'cleanses' of pests it feeds on. A thorough examination of the white matter using special electron microscopes revealed
- Dr.Roey Tsezana
Chinese researchers propose combining genes from tardigrades (water bears) to improve the ability of human cells to deal with radioactive radiation
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
Special for Passover: It turns out that slavery is not limited to humans, and various insects survive and multiply in nature thanks to the "slavery" of other species. So what do an army of small ants and Sparta have in common? What were cow barbers?
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Development of water collection and transport systems based on the characteristics of the desert beetle and the female beetle
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- Avi Blizovsky
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By using an innovative microscope, they were able to identify for the first time the process in which the seashell produces crystals used for vision, and discovered that it is similar to the process of the formation of freckles in humans
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
A wasp gathers as food for its future offspring larvae that contain maggots of another wasp in their bodies, thus harming their survival
- Weizmann Institute
In a first calculation of its kind, the weight of all the insects, spiders and their terrestrial relatives in the world was found
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
The power of a group - the electrifying version: British researchers discovered that swarms of bees carry a particularly powerful electrical charge. It turns out that the buzz is literal
- Tel Aviv University
The flexibility of her central nervous system allows her to stretch when laying her eggs in the soil to 2 or 3 times her original length, then quickly return to her normal length without damage
- Science site The Conversation
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The researchers estimate that this figure is the cause or at least strongly related to the beehive collapse syndrome
- Weizmann Institute
The research findings illustrate how changing the synapse map may lead to a change in behavior
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Arthropods are the "main force" that breaks down plants in the desert - thus they help the functioning of the desert ecosystem
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
Symbiosis with bacteria allows worms and oysters to feed on natural gas and sulfur compounds - and teaches us about ways to produce energy
- Yoram Soreq
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Gidi shares with us the controversy in his family: are cockroaches dangerous pests for health or just a nuisance? Another question: can cockroaches really survive a nuclear attack
- Avi Blizovsky
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The Honey Council: due to the massive disappearance of honey bees in the world, the studies on the honey bee and the act of pollination - without which humanity would not have food from plants - were expanded
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
Impressive learning abilities, unique pollination methods and fur that is nice to pet (but not worth it): studies from recent years reveal the amazing world of bumblebees, and warn against the severe damage to them due to the climate crisis.
- Avi Blizovsky
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Although they have been on Earth for over 500 million years, researchers still do not know enough about jellyfish, the reasons for their reproduction, their migration routes, and more, and measures from different scientific fields were required