VOA常速英语2014--蜜蜂化石揭示气候变化

Fossilized Bees Reveal Climate Changes 蜜蜂化石揭示气候变化 LOS ANGELES For millennia, natural tar that seeped from the ground in what is now southern California trapped large and small animals, preserving their fossils and providing scient

VOA常速英语2014--Biologist Creates Portrait Gallery of North American Bees 生物学家绘制北美蜜蜂精美肖像画

Biologist Creates Portrait Gallery of North American Bees 生物学家绘制北美蜜蜂精美肖像画 While the collapse of honey bee colonies in North America is still an unsolved mystery, a biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey is trying to p

VOA双语新闻：美科学家研究蜜蜂数量减少的原因

Volunteers equipped with nothing more than digital cameras are taking part in an unusual bee hunt. 一些只带着数码相机的义工正在参与一项不寻常的环境研究。 It's part of an environmental study that has amateur photographers do

科学美国人60秒 SSS 蜜蜂更偏爱含有尼古丁的花朵

Bees Prefer Flowers That Proffer Nicotine蜜蜂更偏爱含有尼古丁的花朵 We humans enjoy coffee and tea, to give our brains a caffeine boost. And bees sometimes sip nectar that naturally contains caffeine, which seems to enhance their memory.

英语听力：自然百科 Bees Key to Better Missiles 蜜蜂：新武器的启示

Honey bees are fairly placid insects when left alone. But if antagonized, they will react violently. Researchers from the University of Queensland in Australia are working to better understand honey bees vision, navigation, and, in particular, aggres

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-03 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—19

That's why I'm heading to south Sussex. I've heard about an experiment happening right now to establish how much pesticide bees are really getting in the wild. So I'm joining in Professor Dave Goulson and his team to find out how they are going to do

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-08 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—21

This is one of the most important experiments taking place. The one that could help us understand the degree to which research done so far is relevant to bees in the wild.-So what we know so far? There's a good arguement for saying that diseases and

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-10 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—22

-Hmm, that's pretty lovely.He puts that down to his honey bees' rather unusual habitat. -We're on the roof of Tate Britain and here these are some of the bees that I look after for the Tate. -I have to say and congratulate. You're having really very,

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-17 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—25

One of the first thing they look at is taking place in the grounds of University of Reading. They are hand-pollinating strawberry plants. It might seem strange, but hand-pollination is something that's already been trying out in southwest China, wher

英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-19 地平线：什么害死了我们的蜜蜂—26

But there is a second option to find ways of creating more bee-friendly enviornment. There is another reseach group at the University of Reading, who are trying a very different approach. Scientists Vicky and Jenny Wickens are investigating a way to

英语听力文摘 English Digest 585、不同年龄的蜜蜂有不同的分工！

Bees Have Different Jobs According To Their Age Bees take on different jobs in a bee hive according to their age. Many become food scouts when older, but not all scouts are the same. Some search for new flowers, while others fly to and from establish

英语听力文摘 English Digest 491、蜜蜂也吃肉？

Carnivorous Bees 蜜蜂也吃肉？ I guess you never heard of Trigona hypogea, a South American bee that not only collects meat from animal carcasses, but has more recently been discovered to have a taste for live prey as well. Scientists have seen

科学美国人60秒 SSS 日食对蜜蜂来说是灭顶之灾

Solar Eclipse Was Buzzkill for Bees Last summer's total solar eclipse sliced right through Columbia, Missouri. It was remarkable. As a biologist I generally reserve that word 'remarkable' for biological phenomena.Candace Galen is based at the Univers

趣侃“刺儿头!”

趣侃刺儿头! 嗨，先猜个歇后语来解解烦！蜜蜂的屁股--？ 哦 有点不雅噢！蜜蜂的屁股--刺儿头！ 英语中，刺儿头可表达为nit-picker。当然，若用fault-finder来形容喜欢鸡蛋里挑骨头的刺儿头也不

科学美国人60秒 SSS 蜜蜂喜欢花朵提供的尼古丁

Bees Prefer Flowers That Proffer Nicotine We humans enjoy coffee and tea, to give our brains a caffeine boost. And bees sometimes sip nectar that naturally contains caffeine, which seems to enhance their memory. Now a study suggests that bees enjoy a

科学美国人60秒 SSS 我们懒一点对蜜蜂是有好处的

Bees Have a Goldilocks Lawn Mow Schedule Add up every golf course, athletic field, industrial park, and yard in the U.S. and you have an area nearly the size of Florida. Upon first glance, all that lawn might seem a biological wastelanda monoculture

VOA常速英语2019--研究气候变化的新方法：在蜜蜂身上装传感器

This tiny sensor mounted on a bumblebee is monitoring all kinds of important environmental data. This is the brainchild of a group of researchers at the University of Washington. What made us start the aim of this was our prior work on building insec

杂货店里的哲学

我们总会遇到这样一类人他们像恼人的虫子一样，不时蛰你一下，给你原本波澜不惊的生活增添烦恼。但在那一刹那阵痛过后，你有否静下心来想过，那刺痛留给你的真的仅仅只是遇人不淑的

英语听力文摘 English Digest 298、蜜蜂怎样过冬？

Honeybees in Winter 一只蜜蜂无法度过严寒的冬天。一群蜜蜂则不同。据说蜂箱中的蜜蜂要过冬的时候，往往要抱成一团。最外面的一层是工蜂，它们拼命地煽动着翅膀，像厚厚的衣服一样阻隔着外

英语听力文摘 English Digest 393、单亲蜜蜂王国

Fatherless Honeybee s How male honeybee s can be without fathers? The reason lies in whats called a haploidiploid system of sex determination. Approximate ly one-fifth of the animal kingdom, including ants and wasp s , use this system. What it boils