The study is almost two years old, but we haven't covered it at Bits of Science before (unlike a similar study
about bumblebee CCD in the US)-- and we think we should.
Bee Movie (PG for suggestive humor and brief smoking) Animated family
about a bumblebee (Jerry Seinfeld) in search of a new line of work who befriends a florist (Renee Zellweger) who helps him sue humanity for stealing his species» honey for centuries.
The Transformers spin - off was announced in February of 2016, but it wasn't until later that it was confirmed to be a movie
about Bumblebee.
That advice (to save $ 100K before starting to invest) is like what biologists say
about bumblebees.
Not exact matches
The movie was hot and people were talking
about it, but he also thought he could do something much better given his background, so he created some stop - motion videos, such as an animated fight between Optimus Prime and
Bumblebee.
The rusty patched
bumblebee, Bombus affinis, recently became the first U.S.
bumblebee species to be placed on the endangered species list, but a Kansas State University entomologist says
bumblebee endangerment is nothing to be bugged
about.
The environmental costs of this invasion should alert governments
about the convenience of importing alien
bumblebees or any other pollinator.
About the size of «a hair on a
bumblebee,» he says, with a circuit the size of a dime, it contains no optical lenses and works by allowing a small volume of fluid to flow across a microchip, which then sends images of the sample to a computer.
I recently wrote
about how
bumblebees were able to perform some seemingly impressive feats, although the underlying reason they could do so was relatively simple.
There's lots of buzz
about the disappearance of honeybees, but the
bumblebee is faring even worse — and some say it is the more crucial pollinator
The United Kingdom has
about 250 species of bees, of which one is the honeybee, 25 are
bumblebees and the remainder are so - called solitary bees, which, because they do not provide honey and are not as picturesque as the hairy
bumblebees, are mostly under the research radar.
To understand how floral characteristics can combine to influence the decisions
bumblebees make
about which flowers to visit, Robert Gegear, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), had bees forage on arrays of paper representations of typical «hummingbird flowers» (red coloration, horizontal orientation) and «bee flowers» (lavender or blue coloration, upright orientation).
Many of the
bumblebees that first arose sport tongues
about half the length of their bodies, having evolved special relationships with particular long - tubed flowers.
Sure, honeybees do good work in the field and they are invaluable as providers of the sweet stuff, but it is
bumblebees we should really be worried
about.
The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is exacting
about using non-destructive methodologies so that researchers don't have a negative impact on the
bumblebee populations.
These changes had direct implications for plant reproduction: Larkspurs produced
about one - third fewer seeds when one of the
bumblebee species was removed, compared to the larkspurs in the control groups.
At
about the same time, the giant
bumblebee began to disappear from this area.
While
about 78 percent of the
bumblebees in the control groups were faithful to a single species of flower, only 66 percent of the
bumblebees in the manipulated groups showed such floral fidelity.
While the new study is not a definitive explanation of the widespread bumble bee losses, which are likely the result of many factors, Cameron said, it challenges a popular hypothesis
about the sudden declines of wild
bumblebees in the early 1990s.
It also occurred in
about one in every 10 wild
bumblebees.
The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of
bumblebees are
about one - quarter shorter than they were 40 years ago, evolving that way because climate change altered the buffet of wildflowers they normally feed from, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
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Good: Starscream is a lot cooler in this movie, Best computer - graphics for any movie to date, Original Optimus voice,
Bumblebee vs. Barricade scene was awesome, Decent story, but the Unicron story is a million times better Bad: No Hot Rod or Soundwave, Shia LeBeouf, Ending, Futile attempts to connect to classic scenes, lines and concepts, No Stan Bush soundtrack, Some immature humor ruined a lot of the movie for me, Poor dialogue I really expected a lot from this movie and am very critical
about my feelings towards it - Overall Michael Bay made a good movie, but he made it appeal to the masses (immature jokes and a lot of action) and it gave up a lot of other crucial aspects to the story and quality of the Transformers franchise.
With production on
Bumblebee under way, hopefully we'll find out more
about this spin - off soon.
This could imply that Hopkins» character, assuming the comment was pre-emptively
about him, will provide the voice for Goldbug - an evil, alternate reality version of
Bumblebee - or possibly another Autobot such as Ultra Magnus (assuming he's not simply playing a human in the film, that is).
She's also doing some genre fiction, too, having recently penned a spin - off movie
about Transformers «
Bumblebee.
Paramount has a plan in place to make literally thousands of these movies, including the upcoming
Bumblebee spinoff, and it's going to be tough to convince audiences they should care
about future movies if they don't even care
about the movie that's in theaters now.
While the budget is far slimmer for the
Bumblebee solo movie than The Last Knight, fans shouldn't have to fret
about the quality of the film.
The budget for Travis Knight's spinoff movie
Bumblebee will reportedly be
about one - third of that spent on Transformers: The Last Knight.
Van Peebles speaks
about cultivating his cornucopia of talents in the absence of any formal training, likening himself to the
bumblebee which defies aeronautical explanation and «flies anyway.»
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Are you as excited
about riding a huge
bumblebee as we are?
More on Bees, Pollinators and Colony Collapse Disorder Some
Bumblebee Populations See 96 % Decline Colony Collapse Disorder and the Epic Fight to Save the Bees Ellen Page Speaks Out
About the Vanishing of the Bees The Vanishing of the Bees Documents the Ongoing Decline of the Honeybee
Europe is still home to 68 different
bumblebee species — of which according to IUCN 24 percent are now directly threatened with extinction and
about half have clearly declining populations.
Tony G has an AGW
bumblebee whizzing around between his ears and he does nt think / talk
about anything else.
The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of
bumblebees are
about one - quarter shorter than they were 40 years ago, evolving that way because climate change altered the buffet of wildflowers they normally feed from, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.
What got me musing
about bees in mid-winter was an article in the Guardian recently that talked
about an alarming 96 % drop in the numbers of four
bumblebee species in the U.S. Like their honey bee cousins, Bombus — the genus name means «booming» in Latin — is a very important pollinator.
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