{"id":3506,"date":"2026-08-05T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:12:33","slug":"the-magnetism-of-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/the-magnetism-of-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Le magn\u00e9tisme des abeilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Une nouvelle \u00e9tude publi\u00e9e dans Science Advances a examin\u00e9 la sensibilit\u00e9 magn\u00e9tique chez les abeilles, afin de d\u00e9terminer si les propri\u00e9t\u00e9s magn\u00e9tiques \u00e9taient associ\u00e9es au sexe, au comportement de nidification ou \u00e0 la taille du corps chez les abeilles et si ces propri\u00e9t\u00e9s \u00e9taient limit\u00e9es \u00e0 une r\u00e9gion ou une partie du corps particuli\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En examinant 96 esp\u00e8ces d'abeilles issues de six familles diff\u00e9rentes, des chercheurs ont trouv\u00e9 des preuves de la pr\u00e9sence de mat\u00e9riel ferromagn\u00e9tique chez la grande majorit\u00e9 des esp\u00e8ces qu'ils ont test\u00e9es. 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The finding suggests that magnetic sensitivity is not an unusual feature restricted to a few familiar social bees, but may be a much older and more widespread characteristic of bees.","twitter:creator":"@apimondia","twitter:image":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/apimondia-logo-small-1.webp"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"3506","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":{"focus":{"keyphrase":"","score":0,"analysis":{"keyphraseInTitle":{"score":0,"maxScore":9,"error":1}}},"additional":[]},"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"featured","og_image_url":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bee-iron.jpg","og_image_width":"1600","og_image_height":"836","og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":"","og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"BlogPosting","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":"-1","robots_max_videopreview":"-1","robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":"default","local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":{"faqs":[],"keyPoints":[],"schemas":[],"titles":[],"descriptions":[],"socialPosts":{"email":{"subject":"","preview":"","content":""},"linkedin":[],"twitter":[],"facebook":[],"instagram":[]}},"created":"2026-08-05 12:03:58","updated":"2026-08-05 14:25:29","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null,"focus_keyword":null,"additional_keywords":null,"truseo_locale":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/category\/uncategorized\/\" title=\"Highlights\">Highlights<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">&raquo;<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tThe Magnetism of Bees\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra"},{"label":"Highlights","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/category\/uncategorized\/"},{"label":"The Magnetism of Bees","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/the-magnetism-of-bees\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}