Sentences with phrase «bumble bees»

For the bumble bees start painting yellow stripes across the top and down the sides.

This article focuses on recent designations of bumble bees.

These viruses were detected in eleven other non-Apis hymenopteran species, ranging from many solitary bees to bumble bees and wasps.

Bumble bees are very docile and will only sting if hard pressed; a nest near a house is not a problem.

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures: Fright of the Bumble Bees is available today for download on the PC and Xbox Live Arcade.

Complete with its well rounded story, solid audio editing, stunning visuals, and even the slight cliff hanger ending, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures: Fright of the Bumble Bees has left me wanting more.

The series starts out with Episode One: Fright of the Bumble Bees.

Bumble Bees buzz and so will the canine paparazzi when your dog steps out on the town in these glamorous colors.

My Summerhouse wasn't just my writing space; over the years, it was home to a nest of bumble bees in the ground below, several spiders and their cobwebs spun in dusty corners, and a hedgehog who took up residence at the back.

A jar of ACME Bumble Bees?

Is easily adaptable for researching all types of bees: Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, Mason Bees, Wasps, Hornets, and any solitary Bee.

I even find the big bumble bees super cute.

She would hold them in her hand and they'd let her stroke them, especially bumble 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.

Our model predicts that, during the first three months of spillover, transmission from commercial hives would infect up to 20 % of wild bumble bees within 2 km of the greenhouse.

We constructed a spatially explicit model of pathogen spillover in bumble bees and, using laboratory experiments and the literature, estimated parameter values for the spillover of Crithidia bombi, a destructive pathogen commonly found in commercial Bombus.

However, wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are also suffering serious declines throughout North America [24], [25] and the UK [17], [26].

In comments to the USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, ten other conservation groups, and several bee scientists have formally asked for protection of wild bumble bees from the threat of disease.

KNOXVILLE — Viruses, tumors, bumble bees and even «Bieber Fever» will undergo mathematical analyses at the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, July 25 - 28, at the Knoxville Convention Center.

«This is an important paper that highlights the cocktail of pesticides (insecticides and fungicides etc) used in agriculture, as well as providing further context regarding the levels consumed by two key pollinator species — honey bees and bumble bees.

Bumble bees possess a similar detoxification system thanks to a CYP9Q3 ortholog that the team has named CYP9Q4.

Additionally, as bees and bumble bees are said to usually groom during flight between flowers [16,41], it should be examined whether grooming behaviour — and thus pollen distribution in safe sites — differs when bees groom during flight as our study is mainly limited to grooming during perching.

Bumble bees may have small brains, but that doesn't mean they're not inventive.

Overall, they found that some bumble bees have retreated as many as 300 kilometers from the southern edge of their historic ranges since 1974.

Many bumble bees form small colonies, Kerr explains, limiting their ability to spread quickly.

The 10 bumble bees that watched a sister perform the task were the most successful, the scientists report today in Science.

This flexibility could help bumble bees in the wild, which face widespread population declines.

The researchers believe the retreat — and the move to higher elevations — may reflect the fact that bumble bees evolved in cooler climates than many other insects that haven't yet lost ground, and so are especially sensitive to warming temperatures.

A comprehensive look at dozens of species, it finds that many North American and European bumble bees are failing to «track» warming by colonizing new habitats north of their historic range.

One recent study, for example, found parallels between the use of chlorothalonil and the presence of Nosema bombi, a fungal parasite, in bumble bees.

His research foci include the social insects honey bees, bumble bees and stingless bees, the unique biology of which can be used as models to decipher the genetic fundaments of environmental interaction and evolutionary innovation.

It's not clear when or how the fly might have jumped from bumble bees to honey bees.

«But we still don't know whether the fungus is becoming more virulent or the bumble bees — already stressed from habitat loss and degradation and other infections — are becoming more susceptible to Nosema.»

Their study, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that N. bombi was present in the U.S. as early as 1980, well before several species of wild bumble bees started to go missing across the country.

The flies are native to North America and were known to parasitize bumble bees, but they had not been seen afflicting honey bees.

Bumble bees show an unexpected level of cognitive flexibility when it comes to solving problems in exchange for sugar water.

The research is published in Springer's journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and uses a laboratory - based experiment to investigate how aspects of associative learning influence how bumble bees find food among different - sized flowers.

«The bumble bees created a foraging route without accounting for the location of high - rewarding flowers when they could find flowers easily, but incorporated the locations of high - rewarding flowers when they could not easily find the next nearest flowers,» explains Tsujimoto.

A new study of possible self - medicating behavior in bumble bees conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst reports that a once - promising finding was not supported by further experiments and analysis.

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Calgary, Canada, studied the flights of bumble bees as they collected nectar from wild tall larkspur flowers in Alberta, Canada.

Doctoral candidate Evan Palmer - Young and his advisor, evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler, had reported in 2015 that a common parasitic infection of bumble bees was reduced when the bees fed on anabasine in sugar water.

Bob Dawson, Scottish Conservation Officer for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, agrees that there is still a need for greater regulation of commercial bumble bees.

One suggestion was that commercial bumble bees, often used to pollinate tomatoes and green peppers, were escaping from greenhouses and spreading infections to native bees.

To investigate further, Michael Otterstatter and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, Canada, modelled the spread of the parasite from commercial bumble bees to their wild relatives.

A puzzle of flight — what keeps bumble bees aloft — was solved by Michael Dickinson, an assistant professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Does pathogen spillover from commercially reared bumble bees threaten wild pollinators?

Pathogen prevalence in commercially reared bumble bees and evidence of spillover in conspecific populations.

Patterns of widespread declines in North American bumble bees.

ID tags for bumble bees allow a computer to track the behavior of individual bees, revealing insights into their daily routines and decisions.

NOT many research facilities have walls decorated with giant bumble bees and paddling ducklings.