Sentences with phrase «colonies working the fields»

Pollinator conservationists have raised concerns that chronic exposure to neonicotinoids widely used on crops is inadvertently weakening honeybee colonies working the fields.

Not exact matches

Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park, a nudist colony in East Gwillimbury, Ontario (needless to say, some of their links may not be totally safe - for - work), joined the party on Wednesday, becoming the first in its field to accept the most popular of the emerging cryptocurrencies for stays at its campsite and products from its gift store.

It brings together (a) fragmented reflections from my three years of living and working with the Paraiyar communities in about 20 colonies around the town of Karunguzhi in Chingleput District, Tamilnadu (1985 - 87); (b) systematically documented data from a six - week intensive field trip in two of these 20 colonies, i.e., Malaipallaiyam.

Their field study shows natural selection working on a collective trait — the docile - to - aggressive ratio, known to pass down from generation to generation — that has led to an adaptation that determines whether whole colonies survive or die.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

Honeybee colonies that foraged on treated fields grew at about the same rate as those working the untreated fields, report Maj Rundlöf of Lund University in Sweden and her colleagues.

He moved to the Boothbay Art Colony in Maine in 1925 under a working fellowship and, in 1926, one of his paintings won the first Harmon Foundation Gold Medal Award, an award for distinguished achievement by an African American in the fine arts field.