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A large swarm of bees Thursday caused problems for train passengers in south-eastern Norway, reports said. Station manager Terje Andersen at the train station in Fredrikstad told broadcaster NRK that “the bees began to swarm around us” early in the afternoon.
Gro Amdam, associate professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, has been awarded two grants totaling the U.S. equivalent of about $1.4 million from the Norwegian Research Council to investigate biochemical factors and social life history properties that can influence aging and longevity in honeybees.
Gro Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, is one of 20 researchers now bearing the distinction “Outstanding Young Investigator” from the Research Council of Norway.
Gro Amdam, an assistant professor in Arizona State University’s School of Life Sciences who heads social insect studies in laboratories at both ASU and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences’ Department of Animal and Aquacultural Sciences, is one of only 20 researchers chosen this year to enter the Trusts’ exclusive rolls as a Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences.
Big efforts are made to avoid fireblight in fruit growing areas in Norway.
Hardanger, where most of the apples are grown in Norway, has avoided it so far.
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According to scientists, beekeeping could become an important agricultural business in northern Norway.
Yes, it can, says scientists Lise Hatten and Jørn Høberg at the science institution Bioforsk Nord Tjøtta
The birds and the bees may be gay, according to the world’s first museum exhibition about homosexuality among animals.
Scientist Lars Sekse thinks it is unrealistic to think it is possible to get rid of “pærebrann”
There have been found AFB in 12 hives in Østfold.