Submitted by whatatwit t3_104gyd3 in UpliftingNews
Yay Bees!
Did you see that bumblebees seem to like playing with tiny coloured balls just for fun?
> A team of UK scientists watched bees interacting with inanimate objects as a form of play and said the findings added to growing evidence that their minds are more complex than previously imagined.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/oct/27/bumblebees-playing-wooden-balls-bees-study
That is super cool-
I tried to find a Reddit post from a guy who had this bee just hang out with him all day (maybe a day and a half?). The bee clearly was drawn to him- it was very cute.
The creatures on this planet are just so awesome❤️
Bees are also the only known creature (outside from humans) that can communicate using symbols (they draw circles with lines to indicate where flowers are, the faster their movements, the more important the bee thinks it is)
Amazing. Science.
I remember the story it went on for a few days. I got the impression that the supporting cast was female and she made little activities and enrichments because the bee had a damaged wing.
Does this remind anyone else of the Florida mosquitos?
The American floulbrood vaccine is a traditional one based on inactivated bacteria not a GMO vaccine.
The Florida Keys trial released genetically modified male mosquitoes, as the males don't bite. These mate with the invasive species of mosquitoes in Florida that transmit disease and this makes sure that their female larvae don't make it to the biting stage.
> Aedes aegypti makes up about 4% of the mosquito population in the Keys, a chain of tropical islands off the southern tip of Florida. But it is responsible for practically all mosquito-borne disease transmitted to humans in the region, according to the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD), which is working closely with Oxitec on the project. Researchers and technicians working on the project will release bioengineered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which don’t bite, to mate with the wild female population, responsible for biting prey and transmitting disease. The genetically engineered males carry a gene that passes to their offspring and kills female progeny in early larval stages. Male offspring won’t die but instead will become carriers of the gene and pass it to future generations. As more females die, the Aedes aegypti population should dwindle.
I always knew that bees would take over the planet as our overlords some day. All hail the bees! :p
Ha ha! Long may the bees continue their reign. They've been here a long, long time.
Meanwhile, it's possible that jellyfish and other blobby things that won't be dissolved by the acidity will inherit the oceans.
> ''The exploding jellyfish population has disrupted everything from the fish sourced in the Bering Sea for McDonald's Filet-O-Fish to the beluga caviar industry.
> ''I could point to more than 400 other big examples around the world where they've wiped this out, they've taken over that, they've squeezed that out, they've closed that industry. It's just astonishing at how well they're doing in disturbed ecosystems."
> Gershwin says her book Stung! was described by one critic as a "second Silent Spring" in reference to Rachel Carson's influential 1962 book that warned the world how pesticides were affecting the environment. As with Carson's warning, people seem unaware about what is happening to our oceans.
> That's the thing. I talk to so many people, including really smart scientists who, I think culturally, just don't think past the damage. We think, eww, climate change, that sounds bad, sea level rise, but we don't think about who inherits those damaged ecosystems.
(BTW yes, Lisa Gershwin is a relative of George Gerschwin)
Don’t do it bees! The vaccines are out to kill you! Your Bee-Ody your choice! /s
This isn't viable for non-queen rearing beekeepers most likely, but good news nonetheless. Next is varroa mites hopefully.
Giving the gift of autism to the bees
(Note: am autistic)
I assume that's a joke, in which case :).
> It was in this context that, in 1998, Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues published a now-infamous and retracted paper in The Lancet, following which, in 2010, Wakefield was struck off the UK medical register for misconduct by the country’s General Medical Council. The fraudulent work on 12 children promoted a non-existent connection between autism and the MMR vaccine, used against measles, mumps and rubella. It propelled Wakefield to notoriety and turbocharged the anti-vaccine movement. He remains a headliner on the international vaccine-sceptic circuit as diseases once vanquished return because of falling rates of immunization. Many large epidemiological studies have found no difference in risk of developmental delays between children who receive the MMR vaccine and those who don’t
Fun fact: I have never been stung by a bee or any bug Its because of my autistic swag
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