Sentences with phrase «bee habitat»

In the hopes of increasing local bee numbers, University of Buffalo architecture students created this intriguing wild urban bee habitat.
Furthermore, wild bee habitat shrinks every year as industrial agribusiness converts grasslands and forest into mono - culture farms, which are then contaminated with pesticides.
The reasons for overall bee declines are broadly understood: diminished bee habitat; the Varroa destructor, a nasty parasitic mite; viruses and pathogens; and agricultural chemicals, including pesticides, fungicides and insect growth regulators (IGRs).
Falling yields have prompted farmers to put more land under cultivation, further eroding bee habitat.
The White House task force identified a series of policies that agencies should undertake to protect bees and other pollinators from pesticides and pathogens, preserve bee habitats, and promote bee - friendly plants.
Gordon Frankie, a U.C. Berkeley bee biologist whose office sits directly above Kremen's, has spent more than a decade designing bee habitats for urban gardens, and now he has begun applying that knowledge to agriculture.
The resulting paper, published in 2002 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, concluded that by restoring native bee habitat in their fields, farmers could «hedge their bets in the event of honey bee scarcity through partial replacement of honey bee by native bee services.»
Our team of six was given the task of building a motorized bee habitat, including a feature that would warn off a predator, and giving a presentation about what they built.
But here's another striking approach to bee habitat created by Tucson artist and lanscape architect Greg Corman, under the brand name of Zen Industrial.
It also recommends working with large - scale landowners to enhance bee habitat, and with retailers and other organizations to promote bee - friendly gardening and landscaping practices among the general public.
If there was any doubt about the importance of bees for their pollination services alone, these many amazing feats should leave no one in doubt that we must do everything in our power to improve bee habitat, reduce pesticide poisonings, and stop the colony collapse disorder to save these useful insects.
Upon entering the campus building one can explore a bee habitat, take in the views from the gorgeous floor - to - ceiling windows and capture Instagram - worthy snaps of Jo Hormuth's colorful artwork adorning the walls.
«These big giant monocultures pretty much hammer the bee habitat,» says Mace Vaughan, an entomologist and conservation director of the Xerces Society in Portland, Oregon, which promotes insect biodiversity.
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