Sentences with phrase «between pollinator»

Dr Dino McMahon, from Queen's University, Belfast, said: «Our findings are important because they indicate that many viruses can spread easily between pollinator species and, furthermore, that they can reach very high disease levels in wild bumblebees.»

The link between pollinator problems and neonicotinoids, a group of agricultural pesticides commonly associated with declines in honeybees, continues to build with two new studies published this week.

To further showcase the vital link between pollinators and food, Whole Foods Market created a series of short cooking videos illustrating how classic recipes like apple pie, marinara sauce and guacamole would turn out without pollinators.

The study also found little overlap between pollinators and prey.

Because the flytrap, native to only a small area of North and South Carolina, could potentially eat the bugs that help it breed, researchers wanted to know how it discriminates between pollinators and dinner.

The concept of safe sites for pollen transfer on bees» bodies does not put the major role of bees as pollinators into question, but might focus future research to guidance of bees on flowers to take favorable positions for safe pollen transport by means of floral filtering of suitable pollinators [26], morphological match between pollinators and flowers [54] and floral guides [55] as well as potential strategies of flower visitors to bypass the flowers» restrictions (e.g. bees with specialised hairs for pollen collection from specialised bee - flowers)[26] or strategies of plants via shifting to non-pollen collecting pollinators (e.g. birds)[56 — 57,64 — 66].

Not exact matches

Unlike sun coffee systems, which do not provide pollinators with resources throughout the year (Jha and Vandermeer 2010) and are less permeable to dispersing organisms (e.g., Muriel and Kattan 2009), shade coffee farms can promote pollinator populations and serve as corridors for organisms moving regionally between forest fragments.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

As I began designing experiments to investigate the symbiotic relationship between legumes and nitrogen - fixing bacteria, my committee members applauded my ambition to pioneer a project far beyond the scope of my lab, which focuses on plant - pollinator interactions.

They found very little overlap between prey and pollinator — checkered beetles and sweat bees, for example, were almost never eaten.

Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators.

He said a study he authored on pollinators found that, as of 2015, 5 % to 8 % of current global crop production was attributable to pollinators, translating to an economic value of between $ 235 billion to $ 577 billion.

Researchers had expected high secretions of nectar at buds and fruits to lure ants, but not at flowers, in order to avoid conflicts between ants and pollinators.

Lori Ann Burd, director of the environmental health program at the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona, notes that some research studies suggest a link between neonicotinoid use and pollinator declines.

But the agency typically tests only on honeybees, using them as surrogates for all pollinators, despite differences between bee species.

However, the modeling study showed that the mutually beneficial relationship between the flowering tomato plant and its bee pollinators — as well as the overall system — can persist through higher rates of herbivory than researchers had previously believed.

By comparing this historical data for 21 sites across England with recent pollinator records and land cover maps, they found that 85 % of sites had suffered declines in pollinator species richness of between 10 and 50 % over the past 80 - 100 years.

Maps made more than seventy years ago and records collected by amateur naturalists between the World Wars are providing new clues about declining pollinator numbers, ecologists have found.

It is well known that bumblebees and other pollinators can tell the difference between plants that will provide them with nectar and pollen and those that won't.

The researchers also looked at how the diseases spread and studied genetic similarities between DWV in different pollinator populations.

The larger the congruence between the area contaminated with pollen by the pollen - sacs or that has been contacted by the stigma and the respective safe site of the corresponding pollinator, the lower is the probability of losing pollen according to the bees» grooming activity.

Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.

Coevolution between Joshua tree and its pollinators acts to reduce the variation within species, which creates stronger contrasts between moth species and Joshua tree varieties,» Yoder explained.

His research seeks to understand the forms of coevolutionary selection created by interactions between species - plants and pollinators, hosts and parasites, predators and prey - and the importance of this selection over the evolutionary history of life on Earth.

Interspecific pollinator movements and heterospecific incompatibility: comparisons between Phyllodoce caerulea and Phyllodoce aleutica along snowmelt gradients.

Tikaboo provides a natural «common garden» where it's possible to swap the pollinator species between the two Joshua trees, to see how things work out for all of them.

Visit Wave Hill's gardens and beehives to discover the partnerships between plants and their pollinators.

The neurotoxin does not discriminate between honey bees and mosquitoes; it is known to be highly toxic to the pollinators.

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy «Bat Tower» being built to draw the pest - fighting pollinators to the area.

«There's information being exchanged between roots and leaves and flowers and pollinators and the environment all the time.

The White House recently announced plans to set aside a «highway» of conserved habitat between Texas and Minnesota that will aid embattled monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, part of a larger federal effort to protect crop pollinators.

The study also showed that 39 % of US croplands that depend on pollinators are suffering a significant mismatch between the demand for pollination and the supply of bees.

Changing temperature cues can disrupt the temporal match between plant and animal processes, leaving insects without food and plants without pollinators.

Expanding on its efforts to save honey bee populations from extinction, the Obama administration's Pollinator Health Task Force now aims to create and maintain a 1,500 - mile wildlife corridor along Interstate 35 for Monarch butterflies migrating between Mexico and Minnesota.

Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck collaborates with bees to create sculptures that explore the relationship between humans and pollinators.