Sentences with phrase «wild bees pollinate»

Sasha Harris - Lovett, LA Times Wild bees pollinate many crops, but some bees are busier than others.

Like honey bees, wild bees pollinate crops, but there is no way to effectively manage them so they can be shipped to a site, like honeybees are, to pollinate a specific crop, such as almond trees in central California.

Not exact matches

Of the hundred principal crops that make up most of the world's food supply, only 15 percent are pollinated by domestic bees (mostly honey bees, bumble bees and alfalfa leafcutter bees), while at least 80 percent are pollinated by wild bees and other wildlife (as there are an estimated 25 000 bee species, the total number of pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 species).

Wild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and sWild pollinators such as bees, butterflies and many other insects pollinate crops and wild plants, so that they can bear fruit and swild plants, so that they can bear fruit and seed.

Prioritizing the wellness of the bees that pollinate across the island's wild landscape, the honey is harvested during North America's winter season, which is the beginning of summer time in New Zealand.

Insects, especially bees, help pollinate both food crops and wild plants.

More than 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Andean foothills between Argentina and Bolivia, two wild legume species mixed, probably with the help of some pollinating bees.

Leaf - cutter bees and alkali bees pollinate alfalfa, the blue orchard bee pollinates fruit trees (especially almonds), wild bee species Osmia aglaia and O. bruneri pollinate raspberries and blackberries, and O. ribifloris is effective at tending to blueberries.

He cultivates wild, highly pollinating orchard mason bees to encourage plant life.

Both computer modelling and observation suggest that these crops are fully pollinated by wild bees.

For Maine's blueberry growers, for instance, wild bees do a fine job at pollinating.

(Bee diversity matters: a study in 1993 showed that wild bees specialize in pollinating the base of the flower, while honey bees prefer the top.

This plant is subject to attacks by a diverse set of herbivorous insects and is pollinated by wild bees.

Bees and other insects pollinate many of the world's important food crops and wild plants, raising serious concerns about the impacts of reported global pollinator declines for food security and biodiversity.

Research now suggests that bees brought in to pollinate greenhouses could escape and infect nearby wild bees.

Wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.) have also suffered serious declines and circumstantial evidence suggests that pathogen «spillover» from commercially reared bumble bees, which are used extensively to pollinate greenhouse crops, is a possible cause.

Populations of wild bees and other pollinating species, including butterflies and moths, birds and bats, are being pushed to extinction at startling rates.

Wild bees play an important role in pollinating many US crops and plants.