Sentences with phrase «by bees yields»

Previous studies have shown that pollination by bees yields firmer melons and cucumbers and higher sugar content in a few fruits.

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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...

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.

Proteomics analysis of other samples of bees from CCD colonies, conducted by the U.S. Army, yielded one of the earliest reports of Nosema ceranae and of Varroa destructor virus - 1 (VDV - 1)[6], as well as an RNA virus that was later identified as IAPV [7], in North American bees.

Bees, birds and bats make a huge contribution to the high yields produced by coffee farmers around Mount Kilimanjaro — an example of how biodiversity can pay off.

So by cultivating an allotment you are single - handedly helping to create essential habitats for bees and other wildlife without which our ecosystem would suffer, crop yields would fall and the world would be a poorer place.