Sentences with word «bumblebee»

Over at The Guardian, Alok Jha writes that 4 common species of bumblebee in the US have seen declines in population of as much as 96 % in the last few decades:

The coincidence of N. bombi infections and losses of bumblebees in wild and commercial populations suggests the fungus is a key player in bumble bee declines, Cameron said.

Your article on the decline of bumblebee species and their importance to pollination (11 August, p 42) reports that the...

Publishing in Journal of Applied Ecology, a group of researchers examined the effect of exposure to three specific neonicotinoid pesticides on bumblebee colonies in a field setting and reported changes to colony numbers with some pesticides (for imidacloprid or thiamethoxam) more than with others (clothiandin).

John Cena has been cast in the upcoming Bumblebee spinoff movie.

Comparison of impulse response time to peak (t p) and half - width (Δt) for bumblebee photoreceptors with published photoreceptor data from other insect species

Losses were reported among four species of native bumblebee as well.

All around those spots, Jupiter is covered with bumblebee stripes of darker clouds called belts and lighter clouds known as zones.

Hey transformer fans we have some new images of Bumblebee from Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, a video game complement to Paramount...

«This study shows that neonicotinoids could be having a devastating effect on wild bumblebee populations,» said Raine.

The study suggests that some diseases are being driven into wild bumblebee populations from managed honeybees.

I completely thought the little gems on that necklace looked like bumblebees at first, so right there with you!

Bumblebees buzz from plant to plant collecting food, and plans are afoot to give them another task while they do it — carrying pesticides to where they are needed.

Researchers collected tree bumblebee queens from the wild, checked them for parasites and then monitored colony development in a laboratory.

«Birds vs. bees: Study helps explain how flowers evolved to get pollinators to specialize: Flowers that were thought to have evolved to lure hummingbirds, actually have combinations of traits that discourage wasteful visits by bumblebees.»

Most bumblebees do not live in isolation, but in colonies of tens to hundreds of related individuals founded each year by a single queen bee after the winter's hibernation.

It's not only fruit flies that have lessons for drones: finding out how bumblebees fly through turbulent skies could improve their stability.

Conducted by an agency within the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), it exposed 20 bumblebee colonies at three sites to crops grown from untreated, clothianidin - treated or imidacloprid - treated seeds.

She and her colleagues have documented deep losses in North American native bumblebee species, and she's now studying whether pathogens spilling over from commercial bees are playing a role.

The Polli: Nation project has been developed by Learning through Landscapes in collaboration with other sector partners including The Field Studies Council, Buglife, Butterfly Conservation, OPAL Imperial College London, Stirling University, Bumblebee Conservation Trust and The Conservation Volunteers.

When we visited Bumblebee at his Culver City studio, he shared, «I feel that the children in the paintings are exactly where they belong at that particular moment in their childhood which we all can relate to.»

«Climate change has had a notable impact upon the distribution of many wild bees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.»

Now Deadline is reporting that Kubo and the Two Strings director Travis Knight is set to helm the upcoming Bumblebee spin - off film.

Goulson predicts the giant bumblebee species could be extinct within a few years — and adds that there could be wider ecological implications, as a lot of wild plants in the Andes will lose their main pollinator.

The atlas, published as a special issue of the open access journal BioRisk, breaks new ground in assessing the risks of climate change for European bumblebees.

Transformers bumblebee camaro headed for auction.

It is better known to kids and movie enthusiasts as the yellow - coloured Transformer Bumblebee.

The genomes of these Swiss and American bumblebees provide the first insights into the genetics behind the differences in their behaviours and responses to their environments.

Unless of course, the first spinoff, the lower budget Bumblebee movie can do something unique and special.

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.

A new set photo from Paramount's upcoming Bumblebee solo Transformers film reveals the titular Autobot's 1980s VW Beetle form.

In his article on models of insect flight, Paul Marks attributes the first theory on how bumblebees are able to...

It was his brainstorm to coordinate the corps by color - coded tuxedos: sky blue for the parking valets, lime green for the greeters and bumblebee yellow for the transportation corps.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's designation of the the rusty patched bumblebee as endangered has already set in motion a rash of legal actions to block individual projects and stop all development in large swaths of land.

For example, plants could compete for access to pollinators, which at Mount Rainier include bumblebees, flies and hummingbirds.

And the first spinoff to come out of that initiative was Hodson's Bumblebee film, which takes place in the»80s and stars the likes of Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena.

They studied captive colonies of bumblebees visiting buzz - pollinated flowers, monitoring their behaviour and collecting bee buzzes using microphones.

Basically, if Bumblebee: The Movie is able to subvert most people's expectations for the Transformers franchise, then it may yet usher in a new era for the property.

The biggest thing i think they should've explained is that, at the end of the first transformers movie, Bumblebee starts talking again, but they just randomly in this film he stops talking for no reason.

I am forever amazed by my beagle's spot - on instincts and sense of smell even to find bumblebees if you can believe it.

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.

Prof. Nigel Raine has discovered that fast - learning bumblebees died sooner than their slower - learning co-workers.

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).

I've called my daughter Ladybug since she was a tiny little thing and my son became my little Bumblebee long before he was even born.

However, when red flowers were placed in the horizontal orientation and lavender flowers were placed in a vertical orientation — mimicking the natural flowers of Mimulus cardinalis and Mimulus lewisii — visits by foraging bumblebees dropped dramatically.

Less mowing means less soil disturbance, which is critical for bumblebees because they nest in the ground in mouse and gopher holes.

The study found that infection by the parasite slightly impaired learning in honeybees, however the parasite did not infect bumblebees.

Galen and her colleagues measured the tongue lengths of alpine bumblebee species collected between 1966 and 1980 at three alpine sites of the central Rocky Mountains and archived at the University of Colorado and other museums.