ScienceDaily: University of Idaho professor Brian Dennis is helping scientists understand a baffling but vitally important puzzle: What is causing the decline of honeybees? Working in collaboration with William Kemp, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist and UI alumnus, Dennis has built a mathematical model that demonstrates the vulnerability of hives with too few bees.
"The tightly organized social lives of honeybees, once such an amazing adaptation for success in the world, turns out to lack resilience...