Sentences with phrase «by worker bees»

These are, however, eaten by worker bees after they hatch.

A big blob of royal jelly, abundantly resupplied by worker bees, surrounds the larva at the ceiling.

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Individual bees are swayed by this information to the extent that, after inspection of individual localities, worker bees change their preference and dance for the superior place rather than the one they first discovered or that was communicated to them by their mates.

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.

Tsvetkov and her colleagues found that worker bees exposed to neonicotinoids exhibited lower life expectancies, by up to 23 percent.

What's unusual in these animals is that worker bees can produce offspring by parthenogenesis.

Last year scientists learned that worker bees silence misinformed wagglers by climbing atop them and vibrating at a specific frequency.

Cartar measured the natural wear on the wings of workers, and made matters worse for some bees by trimming the edges of their wings with scissors.

A widespread and poorly understood cause of die - off is called colony collapse disorder (CCD), marked by unusually high bee losses (up to 90 percent per hive) in which worker bees vanish.

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.

Experiments to demonstrate whether bee insomnia is bad for the colony's survival are underway; until the results are in, worker bees are advised to be tucked up in a hive, with a hot cup of nectar by 9 p.m.

In the Cape bee, female worker bees are able to reproduce asexually: they lay eggs that are essentially fertilised by their own DNA, which develop into new worker bees.

It will prevent disaster and confusion at the hive, by stopping even more bees joining in the nectar rush when there are already so many coming back to the hive with nectar that the food storing workers can not cope with the influx.

A worker hornet with its stinger cut off and hung by a wire around its thorax, was presented to the bees at the entrance of the beehive.

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.

In the present study, we attempted to analyze the neural basis of this behavior by mapping the active brain regions of Japanese honeybee workers during the formation of a hot defensive bee ball.

These results strongly suggest that the neural activity detected in the brains of workers involved in the formation of the hot defensive bee ball is induced by heat but not by IAA generated during the formation of the bee ball.

Interestingly, the Acks distribution patterns observed in the brains of workers involved in the bee ball formation were clearly mimicked by those observed in the brains of heat - exposed workers but not by those observed in IAA - exposed workers (Figure 5).

The same process that determines why certain bees become queen bees while others with the exact same DNA become worker bees also plays a role in how doughnuts eaten by a pregnant woman may influence whether her child becomes obese.

Sometimes referred to as ambrosia, bee pollen are compact pellets packed with plant pollens, plant nectar and bee saliva collected by worker honeybees.

Director Spike Jonze's commercial for Apple's HomePod, Michael Walsh writes, «features singer - songwriter and dancer FKA Twigs as an exhausted worker bee who gets transported from her small apartment into a sprawling land of color and possibilities while listening to the new song»Til It's Over» by Anderson.

The Bees By Laline Paull Ecco • $ 15.99 • ISBN 9780062331175 The heroine of Paull's fascinating novel is an unlikely character: Flora 717 is a worker bee with lowly status in her hive.

And the news of 2009 to the present is that iPhone and iPad are so popular in corporations because staff buys the things with zero dollars outlay by corporate; worker bees won't shell out their $ $ $ for a small - screen web browser that is otherwise useless around the house for music, videos, and all the apps that Apple touts so successfully.

No problem, just place a generator or worker - bee character on the map and as if by magic a complete track or building will starter to emerge.

I can only imagine that in the near future the lefty loon protesters will declare that porta pottys are a «right» and should be provided for free by us, the taxpayers and worker bees.

A team of Swiss scientists, led by Daniel Favre, who works for the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, found placing a mobile phone underneath a bee hyve, may confuse the bees due to high frequency tones it emits during a call, and thereby provoke «worker piping,» a signal to leave the hive and swarm.