7 results for “bee”

1. Plants & Fungi

   Flowers and Pollination

   Bees see blue, yellow and ultraviolet but not red, so flowers that court bees are blue

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2. Animals

   Insects

   bees, wasps, butterflies and moths, rebuild their bodies this way inside a pupa. Beetles are the champions

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3. Life & Biology

   Ecosystems and Food Webs

   bee on a clover flower, a spider in the grass, a swallow swooping overhead. It looks

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4. Chemistry

   Acids and Bases

   bee sting is slightly acidic, which is why some people dab it with a paste of baking

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5. Animals

   Sharks

   bees and falling coconuts each kill more. Most bites are cases of mistaken identity in murky

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6. The Human Body

   The Senses

   bees can, hear the ultrasound a bat uses, or sense the magnetic field a bird follows

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7. Animals

   Animal Migration

   Every year billions of animals set off on journeys of thousands of kilometres, guided by the

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