Sentences with phrase «by wild bees»

This plant is subject to attacks by a diverse set of herbivorous insects and is pollinated by wild bees.

Both computer modelling and observation suggest that these crops are fully pollinated by wild bees.

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.

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).

Not exact matches

This week, I've been having my oatmeal with pure orange juice, cinnamon, plain yogurt, gorgeous, local pears (seriously, these are the best pears I've ever had), pluots (bought them for the first time last week and am obsessed by their beauty and sweet flavor), toasted coconut flakes, wild hazelnuts that I brought with me from Germany (they look like acorns, though), almonds, pistachios, and bee pollen (a new ingredient in my kitchen).

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.

A promising study published last autumn by ecologists Sarah Greenleaf of the University of California at Davis and Claire Kremen of the University of California at Berkeley found that the presence of wild bees increases the efficiency of sunflower pollination fivefold.

«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.»

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

Could wild native bee species ease our dependence on honeybees by lessening their workload?

(The wild bees naturally nest in abandoned holes in trees created by beetles.)

The UC Riverside researchers believe the bacteria shared by flowers and wild bees may be beneficial.

By focusing on domesticated bees, the claim goes, we are neglecting a far more endangered pollinator, the wild bumblebee.

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.

It compared the levels of pathogens in both wild bees and those tended to by bee keepers.

On average, only 2 % of wild bee species were responsible for 80 % of the pollination visits witnessed by researchers around the world, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

Improved management of domestic bees, for example by reducing their parasite loads and their overlap with wild congeners, could diminish or even eliminate pathogen spillover.

They may be full of minerals and be made by local bees foraging on local wild clover or they may come from organic coconut trees sprinkled with fairy dust, but they are still sugar.

I've never been stung by bees even though last year we had a wild bee nest in the garden.

If any thing else urbanization probably increases the cat population by a little along with huge increases n pollution, traffic, buildings, boys with bee bee guns, pesticides, Urbanization also has the nasty side effect of decreasing natural resources for all species of wild life including birds.

The creation of the sculpture was informed by the artist's frightening childhood memory of disturbing a nest of wild bees during a family hike.

So what, exactly, do I mean by saying that the ingredient list on your morning cereal could also contain three wild bees and a small patch of forest?

Marr said he found support for his approach online — a beekeeper in Nebraska who recommends building a strong and diverse gene pool with wild bees instead of commercially bred mail - order shipments; minimizing pesticide exposure by locating the hives far away from cultivated farm fields; avoiding antibiotic and other chemical treatments to fight bee parasites and diseases, instead relying on beneficial fungi, bacteria and other components of a healthy hive system; and then raising queens and new bees from those bees that survive the first year.

The results show that numbers of wild bees likely declined by 23 % between 2008 and 2013 in key agricultural regions in California, the Midwest, in Great Plains states and in the Mississippi river valley.

Now a new, comprehensive study by University of Vermont researchers underscores the point — that U.S. wild bees are disappearing in many of the country's most important farmlands and that increased demand for corn to use in biofuel production is a significant part of the problem.

Preferred habitat: wetlands, low woods + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous, red leaves in fall + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 30 feet + + + + Wildlife value: Flowers are a source of bee food; foliage browsed by White - Tailed Deer; fruit attracts the following birds: Eastern Bluebird, Gray Catbird, Eastern Kingbird, Mockingbird, American Robin, Brown Thrasher, Summer Tanager, Cedar Waxwing, Red - bellied and Red - headed Woodpecker, Gray Cheeked Thrush, Blue Jay, Tufted Titmouse, Rose - breasted Grosbeak, Purple Finch, Wood Duck, wild turkey, flicker

The country's bee population had already been shocked in recent years by a tiny, parasitic bug called the varroa mite, which has destroyed more than half of some beekeepers» hives and devastated most wild honeybee populations.