Sentences with phrase «by the honey bee»

Pollination by honey bees and wild bees helps prevent deformities and other problems in strawberries.

«The life of an NSF Program Officer,» a three - part series posted on The Spandrel Shop blog by honey bee research Michelle Elekonich of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The nostril, the lips, and the shaft of the penis: Those are the most painful places to be stung by a honey bee.

After learning about the essential role played by honey bees, whose numbers have declined rapidly in recent years, guests and visitors alike will be invited to taste fresh honeycomb straight from the hive.

Not exact matches

Delta became the first Atlanta company and U.S. airline to host honey bee hives built and supported by Bee Downtown, an innovative startup focused on stabilizing a healthy honey bee population.

Another problem: Scientists have demonstrated that honey bees were first brought to the New World by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century, but the Book of Mormon, in Ether 2:3, claims they were introduced around 2000 B.C.

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

You've heard of the infamous Africanized Killer Bees — we've turned the tables on these prolific honey producers, which are actually the predominant bee species in the rainforests of Costa Rica, by tapping into their golden harvest to produce BeeSting Honey N» Habanero Pepper Sauce.

Nicknamed «liquid gold» (with a price tag to match), manuka honey is produced in New Zealand by bees that pollinate the native manuka bush.

Some well - intentioned vegans overlook the use of honey because of the widely spread myth that honey and bee products are all - natural by - products of the necessary pollination of our food crops.

Manuka honey, a honey made by New Zealand bees from the nectar of the native manuka tree, has the kind of flavor I crave — a complex and subtle taste.

The instructor will take participants through a step - by - step process of understanding the life and work ethic of the most amazing human food producer: the honey bee!

Being produced by bees, honey is not vegan.

The presence of Hydrogen Peroxide in all honeys is the cause of an enzyme added to the honey by the bees unlike the presence of UMF ® which is a phytochemical - derived property (caused by the nectar of the Manuka Flower).

Manuka honey is produced in New Zealand by bees that pollinate the native manuka bush.

MGO Manuka Honey is the only 100 % natural food that has a strong antibacterial and antiviral activity due to the presence of Methylglyoxal that forms in natural form in the nectar of the flowers of Manuka Bush, ready for collection by the honey - bee.

Dietary Methylglyoxal (MGO) is a compound naturally formed in the nectar of the Manuka flower ready for collection by the honey - bee.

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 on.

The other day, I was attending a webinar — thankfully not one with video - conferencing capabilities — on honey bee colony losses for an article commissioned by a local magazine.

Nature Nate's Raw Honey is a huge 32 - ounce bottle of pure honey made by American bees.

Lu now argues that bees can undergo a chronic poisoning if their hives» honey was tainted by insecticides that the pollinators encountered months earlier.

Update Sept. 11, 2015: ZomBee Watch, a citizen science project, reported on September 1, 2015 that one of its participants, Joseph Naughton, discovered and captured a honey bee parasitized by the zombie fly Apocephalus borealis on his porch in New York.

Dr Michael P. Lisanti, Professor of Translational Medicine at the University of Salford, said: «We have been looking at how to target cancer stem cells with a range of natural substances including silibinin (milk thistle) and CAPE, a honey - bee derivative, but by far the most exciting are the results with Vitamin C.

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

North American killer bees are hybrids, the offspring of relatively placid European bees — the kind favored by honey producers — and an aggressive African species that earned its nickname by reputedly stinging to death small animals.

For instance, in the south honey thievery (by humans) is rampant and many beekeepers prefer a more aggressive African bee that adeptly defends its hive.

The survey, which asks both commercial and small - scale beekeepers to track the health and survival rates of their honey bee colonies, is conducted each year by the Bee Informed Partnership in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The move follows reports earlier this month from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that three pesticides routinely used by farmers pose an «acute risk» to essential honey bees.

The researchers followed 91 honey bee colonies, owned by three different migratory commercial beekeepers, for an entire agricultural season.

This concerns the transmission of the virus by the Varroa mite, the course of the infection and the viral replication in different stages of development of honey bees.

In a lush field surrounded by new growth forest, Xu pulls a rack of bees from a hive and describes how he collects honey.

The survey, which asks both commercial and small - scale beekeepers to track the survival rates of their honey bee colonies, is conducted each year by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America.

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.

Some beekeepers lost colonies because of a combination of inadequate nutrition related to periods of agricultural drought, stress related to honey bee transportation, and parasitism by Varroa mites.

«What is lost by an oversimplified view of colony health is that honey bees suffer from myriad parasites, diseases and other stressors that are more commonly associated with the death of the colony,» he said.

A study published April 26 in Scientific Reports by UC San Diego postdoctoral researcher Simone Tosi, Biology Professor James Nieh, along with Associate Professor Giovanni Burgio of the University of Bologna, Italy, describes in detail how the neonicotinoid pesticide thiamethoxam damages honey bees.

«We found that migratory beekeeping influences the lifespan of bees, but how this impacts health and honey bee aging is more complicated and often more influenced by the environment these colonies are in,» said Michael Simone - Finstrom, an NC State postdoctoral researcher during this research and co-first author of the study who currently works at the USDA honey bee research lab in Baton Rouge, La..

He notes that the group found that antenna deflections induced by an electrically charged honey bee wing are about 10 times the size of those that would be caused by airflow from the wing fluttering at the same distance — a sign that electrical fields could be an important signal.

Because the bees are hard to distinguish by sight, Cunningham's team identified instances of usurpation of one species by the other by assessing the structure of the hives each year when they were opened for honey extraction.

The decision follows reports published in January by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluding that the three so - called neonicotinoids — clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam — pose an «acute risk» to honey bees essential to farming and natural ecosystems.

Citing evidence from laboratory and field studies that neonicotinoids threaten honey bees and other pollinators, the European Union is poised to ban the use of three of the most common neonicotinoids in several crops by the end of the year.

While feral honey bee populations may be healthy in many parts of the world, the researchers note that the health of managed honey bee colonies is threatened by a host of factors including habitat loss, pesticides, pathogens, parasites and climate change.

Rigosi, E., Haase, A., Rath, L., Anfora, G., Vallortigara, G. & Szyszka, P. (2015), Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain.

Hive - bound young honey bees (Apis mellifera) are being poisoned by insecticide and weed killer gathered by their foraging hive mates, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

We collected sample sets of adult worker honey bees from several areas and years: (1 — 2) Two initial sample sets of adult honey bees from CCD colonies were obtained in 2006 — 2007 from twelve beekeeping operations from western, northeastern, and southeastern regions of the USA, (3) Samples from packages of imported Australian bees provided a non-CCD 2007 reference, (4) bees sampled in 2008 from a large, non-migratory beekeeping operation in northwestern Montana with no history of CCD provided a second reference set, (5) bee samples obtained in 2009 from a Florida apiary when 500 colonies suddenly collapsed constituted an independent CCD sample set by location and year.

«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.

The work re-ignites arguments to ban neonics, and certainly comparable studies are now need on other pollinator species given that honey bees are by no means the contributor to crop pollination.»