Sentences with phrase «by a bee as»

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As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency was sued by a coalition of beekeepers, as well as representatives from the Sierra Club, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Center for Food Safety, for failing to protect bees by approving neonicotinoids without proper review.

Hitler believed that by removing certain tribes of humans from the human race would evolve, as is seen with the English honey bee.

: poisonous matter normally secreted by some animals (as snakes, scorpions, or bees) and transmitted to prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging; broadly: material that is poisonous

seeign that in this country a religios test is not required nor should it bee... instead we should go by the actiosn and deeds of politiciasn if he hasacted in a way which has religiously offended you then dump him as you relected official... if he has done what all politicians do then you are still confused unless he is one of your pets...

And on what is, in a sense, a higher level still we have the disquieting example of such animal groups as termites, ants and bees, our ancestors in the Tree of Life, which, afflicted by an evil of which we seem to perceive the symptoms in ourselves, have lapsed into a state of social enslavement — the very fate towards which an implacable destiny seems to be impelling us.

As anyone who can read knows by now, bees continue to be threatened by agricultural poisons.

Manuka Honey is produced by bees that collect nectar from the Manuka Bush or Tea Tree (also known as Leptospermum Scoparium) indigenous only to New Zealand.

Strict vegans will not eat honey either, as it is produced by bees, which of course are animals.

Of the hundred principal crops that make up most of the world's food supply, only 15 percent are pollinated by domestic bees (mostly honey bees, bumble bees and alfalfa leafcutter bees), while at least 80 percent are pollinated by wild bees and other wildlife (as there are an estimated 25 000 bee species, the total number of pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 species).

As non-reproducing females, the workers feed the queen bee, guard the hive entrance and cool the collected liquid by fanning their wings to transform it into the thick, sweet honey we know and love.

As strange as it sounds, I was stung by a bee in the process and also ran around the kitchen after several other bees that had smelled the honey and came into to see what was going oAs strange as it sounds, I was stung by a bee in the process and also ran around the kitchen after several other bees that had smelled the honey and came into to see what was going oas it sounds, I was stung by a bee in the process and also ran around the kitchen after several other bees that had smelled the honey and came into to see what was going on.

He's a motorsport legend and was supposed to serve as Grand Marshal at the Sebring 12 Hours this weekend, but he's had to miss it because he was attacked by an angry swarm of killer bees.

I think Oz is fragile physically and mentally, the premier league is very physiacal so he would always struggle in this section, add that to him beeing played and overuse in a position (LW) that does not suit him and he s lost and dejected quickly.People ask him to be tougher but some people are just by nature more fragile, with depressive tendancy.The guy should play in his favourite role and not be overuse as he probably hates himself when he has bad games.

As my dedication to the bees began to wane, and was further discouraged by the low winter survival rate (oh and that one incident involving all the bees in my hair and the resulting trip to the ER, but that's another story for another day, and really, I think the bees were more scared than I)... as all of that was happening, I noticed that someone else was leaning closer in to the beeAs my dedication to the bees began to wane, and was further discouraged by the low winter survival rate (oh and that one incident involving all the bees in my hair and the resulting trip to the ER, but that's another story for another day, and really, I think the bees were more scared than I)... as all of that was happening, I noticed that someone else was leaning closer in to the beeas all of that was happening, I noticed that someone else was leaning closer in to the bees.

As parents, our role is to help our children correct their misperceptions (e.g., all dogs want to bite, all teachers are mean, if you go outside you will definitely get stung by a bee) that are fueling the avoidance, so that, equipped with the facts, they will be more willing to approach the feared situation one step at a time.

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The Wild Center, Tupper Lake's foremost tourist attraction, reached 1 million visitors Tuesday around noon as 8 - year - old Andrew Chrien of South Carolina was welcomed into the museum by dancing, gifts and bee - related fanfare.

Fortunately, Czech bumblebee enthusiast Jaromír Čížek has at last succeeded in getting the bees to breed in captivity, by feeding captive queens exclusively with high - quality bumblebee pollen instead of honeybee pollen, as had previously been attempted.

The pollen's structure suggests that the plants were pollinated by insects: most likely beetles, as bees would not evolve for another 100 million years.

They found that the factors that most greatly accelerated the formation of new species were life in extensive mountain ranges (like the Andes and New Guinea Highlands); the evolution of epiphytism (life in the trees); pollination by orchid bees, moths, or butterflies; and origin of pollinia (packages of hundreds to thousands of pollen grains dispersed as a unit).

«Hence, our findings offer hope that amphibians and other wild animals threatened by fungal pathogens — such as bats, bees, and snakes — might be capable of acquiring resistance to fungi and thus might be rescued by management approaches based on herd immunity.»

BLUE HALO Bees can easily learn to recognize a bluish tinge called a blue halo created by sloppy nanoscale structures (located in the dark center circle, and seen at right) on such flowers as Ursinia speciosa.

This orchid bee was one of 16 outfitted with a radio transmitter backpack as part of a study of the insects» flight habits by ecologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

By capturing bees as they visit plants and then sampling the pollen they carry, she has confirmed in unpublished work that they get much of their food from introduced plants.

The quantities of certain chemicals with known roles in insect learning (octopamine), aversive conditioning (dopamine) and aggression (serotonin) were all reduced by the procedure, suggesting that as with their mammalian counterparts, duress in bees causes sustained, system - wide changes in brain state — a possible analogue of mood.

Also food stores in collapsing colonies don't get raided by other bees as a failing colony's treasures usually do.

More generally, the strategy sets a number of goals: cutting overwintering bee colony losses to 15 % (from roughly 30 % in recent years) by 2025, restoring nearly 3 million hectares of land for pollinators in 5 years, and boosting monarch populations in a key wintering area in Mexico to 225 million by 2020 (roughly four times as high as now).

As the mysterious collapse disorder continues to claim hives by the hundreds — threatening, in particular, the almond industry — more attention is being paid other pollinators, including other types of bees such as solitary bees and feral honeybeeAs the mysterious collapse disorder continues to claim hives by the hundreds — threatening, in particular, the almond industry — more attention is being paid other pollinators, including other types of bees such as solitary bees and feral honeybeeas solitary bees and feral honeybees.

Monsanto Co, DuPont, Syngenta AG, Bayer AG and other agrichemical companies say the bees are being killed by other factors, such as mites.

Scientists, consumer groups and bee keepers say the devastating rate of bee deaths is due at least in part to the growing use of pesticides sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of staple crops such as corn.

However, determining just how, and by how much, has yielded mixed results — not only because of questions around the realism of related studies, but also because parsing the contributing impacts of other threats to bees, such as climate change, has been difficult.

Two of the first field test studies featuring real - world conditions have confirmed that the survival rates and reproduction abilities of bees are negatively affected by prolonged exposure to pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

We tend to think of pollinating insects as our ecological friends, but in the wrong place nonnative bees can spell trouble instead by competing with native insects, promoting reproduction in nonnative plants and potentially spreading disease.

Lars Chittka and Karl Geiger of the Free University of Berlin say that bees measure the distance from their hive to a food source by counting landmarks as they fly past them.

But those same chemical defenses can reduce the number of visits to the plant by pollinators such as bees, resulting in less pollination of individual plants and decreased growth.

Insecticides and other pesticides kill honey bees, either acutely by direct exposure to the chemicals or as part of a group of stressors that kills honeybees,» he said.

To make it easy to observe the bees as they came and went, the colonies were housed in boxes connected to the outside world by transparent plastic tubing.

The paper,» «Hummingbird» floral traits interact synergistically to discourage visitation by bumble bee foragers,» demonstrates that traits of so - called «hummingbird flowers» work together to confuse bees and cost them precious time as they move from flower to flower.

According to Hamilton, altruistic behavior, such as a worker bee caring for young produced by a queen rather than producing and caring for its own offspring, can evolve if the worker is closely related to the queen's young.

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.

Harald Esch, a professor of biology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, hypothesized that bees register distances to food sources by keeping track of the number of landmarks they pass, such as rocks, trees, or groupings of flowers.

Other colony - based critters, such as bees and ants get around the inbreeding conundrum by creating new queens that leave to start their own colonies rather than stick around like the secondary termite queens.

After just 11 generations, they found that the plants visited by bumblebees were taller, twice as fragrant, and reflected more UV light — a visual signal for bees.

The nests containing plastic were among more than 200 artificial nest boxes monitored by MacIvor as part of a large - scale investigation of the ecology of urban bees and wasps, a project involving numerous citizen scientists.

When a real animal interacts with an animalbot, and that bot is controlled by a human, it's as though the human has donned a scale - size animal suit and disguised himself as a bird or a dog or even a bee.

So in the new study, Loukola and colleagues made the bees forage for sugar water by moving a small, yellow ball to a specific target (as in the video above)-- something far removed from what the insects do in the wild.

«However, bees that came into contact with pesticide did not collect more pollen as they gained more experience, and by the end of the experiment collected between 47 % and 56 % less pollen compared to the control bees.»

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].