Sentences with phrase «find bumblebees»

I am forever amazed by my beagle's spot - on instincts and sense of smell even to find bumblebees if you can believe it.

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In July use the grasshopper and the bumblebee from the meadow; also young bees and young hornets; also a big - brindled fly found on paths in meadows, and the fly found on anthills.

It's not only fruit flies that have lessons for drones: finding out how bumblebees fly through turbulent skies could improve their stability.

The study found that infection by the parasite slightly impaired learning in honeybees, however the parasite did not infect bumblebees.

The findings show an important role for epigenetics in bumblebees, and suggest that whether a gene is turned off or on depends on whether it comes from the father or the mother.

They examined common wasps, desert ants and buff - tailed bumblebees, and found that all the queens made large quantities of similar long - chained hydrocarbons.

More than 900 species of wild bees are found in France, but many of them — such as bumblebees — are in decline.

Last year a study found that bumblebees that had never encountered real flowers favored Van Gogh's Sunflowers over the floral works of other well - known artists.

Overall, they found that the total food resources available to alpine bumblebees had fallen by 60 percent since the 1970s.

The finding of rapid adaptation is «a glimmer of hope» for bumblebees, whose populations worldwide are declining, Galen said.

When they looked at the flowers visited by the alpine bumblebee species, they found that the bees» favorite flowers had not shifted to a shallower form, but were less prolific.

The study finds that the region's Swallowtail Butterfly, which can't be found anywhere else in the UK, is at risk — along with three quarters of bumblebee, grasshopper and moth species.

The researchers found that bumblebees exposed to a realistic level of a neonicotinoid insecticide (thiamethoxam) collected more pollen but took longer to do so than control bees.

In this new study, the researchers found that, while bumblebees exposed to pesticides collected more pollen than control bees, control bees were able to learn how to manipulate these complex flowers after fewer visits.

In the midst of a widespread decline in bees, particularly in the United States, a few bumblebees are finding a way to cope: shorter tongues.

The new Lundian research effort observed how bumblebees, representing flying critters, move through the dynamic fluid of air versus how zebra fish, in this corner for all the swimmers, find their way through the dynamic fluid of fluid.

«We found that these wildflowers produce one - third fewer seeds in the absence of just one bumblebee species,» says Emory University ecologist Berry Brosi, who led the study.

However, it is surprisingly common in the European bumblebees living in Patagonia, the researchers found — almost half of the white - tailed bees in the region were infected, as well as the native giant bumblebees.

Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: Their floral «sweethearts» produce significantly fewer seeds, a new study finds.

The University of Exeter study found that species which nest late — in April or May rather than February or March — are declining more than other species, with the larger birds and bumblebees worst affected.

A two - year study of farms in West Sussex and Hampshire in the UK found that England's most common bumblebee species saw significant population growth where targeted, bee - friendly planting schemes were in place.

He found significantly greater numbers of common bumblebees on HLS farms and, crucially, evidence of far higher nesting density, indicating population growth.

Dr Dino McMahon, from Queen's University, Belfast, said: «Our findings are important because they indicate that many viruses can spread easily between pollinator species and, furthermore, that they can reach very high disease levels in wild bumblebees.»

Like earlier scientific announcements that found horses» legs too weak to support their bodies and bumblebees anatomically unable to fly, Gray's paradox became a problem to unravel.

After just 11 generations, they found that the plants visited by bumblebees were taller, twice as fragrant, and reflected more UV light — a visual signal for bees.

Most bumblebees do not live in isolation, but in colonies of tens to hundreds of related individuals founded each year by a single queen bee after the winter's hibernation.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

In stark contrast to other studies, where imidacloprid and thiamethoxam were found to be toxic to bumblebee colonies, this study raises the possibility that clothianidin may not exert the same sub-lethal effects on bumblebee learning and memory and so might not be toxic to bumblebee colonies.

The new finding could help explain why populations of bumblebees also are shrinking.

Alan Boyle, NBC News Scientists say wild bumblebee species are being squeezed into extinction by climate change in North America and Europe — so much so that some of them might need help from us humans to find safe havens.

SPI, after all, is found in Bumblebee and other supermarket brands of canned tuna.

Favoring pieces like «The Flight of the Bumblebee» over hip - hop, Dr. T. struggles to find a middle ground in time for the major annual competition - the outcome of which will determine his continued employment.

With production on Bumblebee under way, hopefully we'll find out more about this spin - off soon.

On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town.

Casting rumors swirl around X-Men: Dark Phoenix, a star has been found for the Bumblebee Transformers spinoff, and a good look at Donald Glover's Lando Calrissian mustache.

Other forms include frog, bumblebee, splinter, mosquito, jackrabbit and, of course, grasshopper which can be found in The Democratic Review in 1851: «You pretend to be my daddies; some of you who are not knee - high to a grasshopper!

Nosema bombi, a single - celled parasite, originally from Europe, was found to have infected the dwindling populations of 4 types of bumblebees that saw their ranges shrink by between 23 % and 87 %.

Global warming and evolution are reshaping the bodies of some American bumblebees, a new study finds.