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Excavating farmlands for highways

The top soil on a farm determines how bountiful a crop will be. In Haryana, farmers have sold this crucial resource to the government for highway projects. Among them is…
Apis dorsata. Photo by Rison Thumboor/Wikimedia Commons.

Bees that see at night

Rock bees, also called the Asian giant honey bees (Apis dorsata), have colour vision in mesopic light intensities or twilights, similar to how humans experience colour in similar light conditions,…
Apis dorsata. Photo by Rison Thumboor/Wikimedia Commons.