Sentences with phrase «by hummingbirds»

As we descend we'll feel the climate changing, becoming warmer and more alive, with more variety in vegetation, and we'll be accompanied by hummingbirds along the way.

The identification of a gene that controls whether petunia flowers attract pollination by hawkmoths at night or by hummingbirds during the day is reported in a paper published online this week in Nature Genetics.

The situation is good for wildflowers that are pollinated by the hummingbirds.

However, more than 70 percent were reported in the US, where praying mantises often capture birds at hummingbird feeders or plants pollinated by hummingbirds in house gardens.

But a recent paper in the journal Ecology suggests that flowers that are visited almost exclusively by hummingbirds are actually designed not to lure birds, but to deter bumblebees and their wasteful visits.

In the laboratory, Gegear and his students observed the behavior of foraging bees using arrays of paper flowers that mimicked the blooms of Mimulus lewisii (purple monkey flower), which is pollinated primarily by bumblebees, and a related species, Mimulus cardinalis (scarlet monkey flower), which is pollinated primarily by hummingbirds.

The reason so many were caught off guard by Hummingbird is that very few paid that much attention when Conversational Search was rolled out nearly two years ago.

The round is led by Hummingbird Ventures.

PageRank isn't dead — but it went from being the top determinant for your ranking to one of over 200 metrics used by Hummingbird to determine your ranking.

The site's elevation ranges from about 200 feet above sea level by the Hummingbird Highway, to over 650 fed in the hilly interior.

Players take control of a snake named Noodle, who is assisted at times by their hummingbird pal, Doodle; and in taking control of Noodle, players have to wrap their heads around the unique control - scheme of controlling a snake.

In Snake Pass, the player takes control of Noodle, a carefree, big - eyed coiler called into action by his hummingbird pal Doodle because magical artifacts have gone missing in their floating island home of Haven Tor.

With the significant changes made by the Hummingbird algorithm, Google has made directory listings very important for local businesses.

Not exact matches

Making sure content is easy to find by the right audience in search is an important part of our consulting at TopRank Marketing, so I am acutely aware of the changes in the search optimization world from Panda to Penguin to Hummingbird.

With the introduction of Hummingbird, Google is heading in the direction of Semantic Search by interpreting both the searcher's intent behind the keywords and their meaning when used on websites, and then how they are related to each other.

That month also saw smaller but significant amounts raised by bitcoin exchanges Kraken ($ 5m from Hummingbird Ventures) and OKCoin ($ 10m from Mandra Capital, Ceyuan and others).

With Google algorithm and platform updates including Florida, Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird, Pigeon, RankBrain, Mobile, Possum, Fred and the thousands of launches, live traffic experiments, side - by - side experiments and over 130,000 search quality tests, it makes you wonder: is this all for improving the customer experience or is some of it to thwart SEO?

Introduction of Hummingbird algorithm was one of the biggest change made by search engine giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) in recent years.

But the Michinoku Future Fund, supported by Starbucks Hummingbird Card, is allowing Endo and hundreds of others affected by the disaster afford college.

With five crave - worthy iterations of Hummingbird Cake (including our cover star, Hummingbird Bundt Cake), an epic pound cake feature by Mississippi native and cookbook author Ben Mims, and an icebox pie blowout from Selma - based baking blogger Kate Wood (she puts the «sweet» in Sweet Home Alabama), we're hitting all the high notes of the Deep South baking repertoire.

That balance is characterized by the logo Wilson created of a hummingbird in flight, yet suspended, with zero gravity.

Hummingbird cake is a recipe that was submitted to Southern Living 1978 by Mrs. L.H. Wiggins of Greensboro, North Carolina.

Grain - Free, vegan hummingbird muffins, inspired by the Southern cake with the same name.

Gazing at the gorgeous photography of My Name is Yeh / / Tending the Table / / Nourish Atelier / / Renee Kemps / / In The Making By Belen / / Vegetarian Ventures / / Hummingbird On High / / Le Jus d'Orange / / Apt.

These cloths adorned with whimsical designs of a ruby - throated hummingbird and western bluebird created by Katherine Homes come in six sizes — mini, small, medium, large, sandwich, and potluck.

The grocer also created a series of short animated videos (narrated by Jaden Smith) spotlighting how lesser known pollinators like moths, butterflies, fireflies and hummingbirds play their part.

Dress your baby in one of our base layer baby bodysuits like this long sleeved bodysuit with dragonfly applique or a short sleeved body with hummingbird and machine appliquéd by hand so that each item is as individual as your baby.

All agreed it was a wonderful program, although Cuba itself was found to be a country of contradictions and beauty: from the modern city of Havana to the oxen working the fields; comfortable air - conditioned bus to people travelling by horseback along the highways; from tiny Bee Hummingbirds to giant anoles.

While male hummingbirds of other species swoop over the female during courtship dives, the shimmery purple - faced Costa's zoom by on the side.

SING ON Acoustic cameras reveal how male Costa's hummingbirds can aim the sound produced by fluttering tail feathers during courtship dives.

One of the findings: Bigger hummingbird species don't seem handicapped by their size when it comes to agility.

By examining gene expression patterns, the new study found that parrot brains are structured differently than the brains of songbirds and hummingbirds, which also exhibit vocal learning.

Pauw suspects that other birds, such as hummingbirds and honeyeaters, may also pollinate by tongue; like sunbirds, their tongues are adapted to drinking nectar.

Recent insights by other scientists into the mechanics of hummingbird tongues prompted Harper to take a closer look at the shape of the tongue tip in bats and how it is involved in gathering nectar.

An earlier study by the same researchers found that Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) accelerated more slowly and had other performance falloffs at altitudes higher than the birds» home range.

Hanging out by bird feeders around the world, the insects have been observed feasting on a variety of small birds, in particular, hummingbirds.

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More than 94 percent of flowering tropical plants and 75 percent of the world's leading food crops require pollination by animals such as bees, bats and hummingbirds.

The expansive filling mechanism uses the elastic recovery properties of the groove walls to load nectar on the tongue in an order of magnitude that allows the hummingbirds to extract nectar at higher rates than are predicted by capillarity - based foraging models.

Consequently, hummingbirds make up the vast majority of birds killed by praying mantises, with the Ruby - throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) being a particularly frequent victim.

At 12 cm, Eocypselus rowei, discovered in Wyoming by commercial fossil hunters, is built on the same small scale as hummingbirds (upper right) and swifts (lower right), its modern - day cousins.

Duke University scientists report in PLoS ONE this week that they attempted to pinpoint regions of the brain responsible for vocal skills by studying three types of birds (parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds) capable of picking up new songs and utterances as well as birds (zebra finches and ringed turtle doves) that lack the ability.

The majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail flight feathers, according to a study published February 14, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Youki Yamasaki from Washington State University, U.S., and colleagues.

He decided to try by filming hummingbirds in the wild, which are less inhibited about flying than their captive counterparts.

By comparing their rates of speciation and extinction, McGuire's team calculated that the number of hummingbird species could double before reaching an equilibrium in the next several million years.

Additionally, the researchers studied the ways in which a hummingbird's direction and speed are influenced by the noises it makes.

Connection to The Eugene Chapter, Weston A. Price Foundation: Hummingbird is owned by Julie and Charlie Tilt, and some of you may remember that Julie started the Eugene Chapter as our first Chapter Leader in 1999!

Like bringing in hummingbirds by planting geraniums and butterfly bushes.

Your eyes are facing the garden adorned with vibrant petals and soft greens of mid-spring, encouraging your mind to fly away towards a place of romance and excitement: only a few weeks from today the sound of the soft breeze will be replaced by the buzz of the scrapping chairs, the gay song of the hummingbirds will leave the spotlight to the orchestra you booked three months in advance and a white ethereal gown will replace the floral cotton dress you're currently wearing.

Wonderful handcrafted design and fade - resistant materials make the lovely Hummingbird Square Outdoor Throw Pillow by Mina Victory the perfect accent.