Sentences with phrase «flowers in»

«Most studies on pollination are climate or area - specific, so it is hard to predict if pollinator preferences for flowers in, say North America, are relevant for Europe or Asia,» say Olsson and Nordström.

With over 250 bumblebee species globally, these important insects perform the laborious task of pollinating flowers in both wild and agricultural settings.

«It means that pollinators have specific preferences in flowers in specific places.

A member of his team even discovered the orange flowers in a centerpiece at a graduation party earlier this month.

Honeybees had not to be trained as they visited B. officinalis flowers in the Botanical Garden.

They noticed that they were gathering more flowers in their traps every year.

They think these additional genes paved the way for colorful and more structured and shapely flowers in later evolving angiosperms.

Tonkin is easily bothered by the weeds among the flowers in his garden, and his awareness of visual anomalies has aided his research.

«Although we had originally expected that the longer flowers which contain more nectar would also be more attractive in terms of energy gain, we found that essentially all flowers in our test provided the same amount of calories.

The flowers in the bottom rows produced the lowest levels of PhABCG1 and show the most damage.

«So far, conservationists have focussed on providing enough food for animals such as birds and bees, such as the important bee - friendly flowers in gardens,» Dr Higginson said.

«Evolutionary shifts from blue to red flowers in Penstemon predictably involves degeneration of the same particular flower pigment gene, suggesting there are limited genetic «options» for evolving red flowers in this group,» said Wessinger.

In contrast, vertically clustered flowers, such as on flowering bushes or trees, the flowers in the arrangement are typically the same and paying close attention to the flower features may not be needed.

The scientists used a chemical detection device called a proton - transfer reaction mass spectrometer to, for the first time, track the odors emitted by flowers in the wild just as moths might encounter them.

These results are the fruit of the doctoral thesis «A study of the contents of carotenoids and the phenolic compounds in tomatoes and flowers in the context of functional diet,» by the researcher Elena Coyago Cruz from the Salesian Polytechnic University in Quito (Ecuador), under the direction of Corell and Meléndez.

«For two years we observed the animals that visited these flowers in their native habitat, continuously, day and night.»

Like a tray of flowers in a florist's shop, this colored scanning electron micrograph displays stalks of the fungus Penicillium.

To be sure that the bees» flying behavior resulted from their underlying emotional state and was not simply a sugar high, the researchers tested the insects on other, unfamiliar flowers in new colors.

«It's another dimension of sensory perception that bees cleverly use to exploit flowers in an efficient way,» says Lars Chittka, a biologist at Queen Mary University of London who was not part of the study.

The origin of many flowers in the garden is rather obscure: some can be presumed to be simple genetic variants of wild plants, while others are the result of hybridisation of original wild species.

Jürg Schönenberger of the University of Vienna in Austria and his colleagues watched birds visiting Axinaea flowers in Ecuador and Costa Rica.

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Calgary, Canada, studied the flights of bumble bees as they collected nectar from wild tall larkspur flowers in Alberta, Canada.

The main building covered in ivy, the path leading to the lab lined with an avenue of trees, and gardens that lit up with beautiful flowers in the springtime.

«Its stems, leaves, and roots are dwarfed,» says Charles Davis, the Harvard University evolutionary biologist who collected the flowers in the jungles of Borneo.

He was there on the chilly North Slope at the top of the continent to study moss campion, a low, flat plant that explodes with pink flowers in early summer.

In fields lit during the night, flowers had 62 percent fewer nocturnal visitors than flowers in dark meadows, researchers report August 2 in Nature.

According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwide.

Better yet, consider live flowers in pretty pots.

The vision of the hawkmoth Manduca sexta — an agile insect flyer that feeds on nectar — is finely tuned to the swaying of flowers in the breeze, a new study shows.

Imperfect arrays were actually an advantage for the flowers in creating displays pollinating bees find memorable, the researchers conclude.

During the peak flower - collecting season in May and June, the region's poorest residents migrate to the highlands and bed down in caves or temporary huts in order to collect more than 90 species of flowers in the plant family Eriocaulaceae, which includes the sempre - vivas.

Bees who seem to find the shortest path connecting many flowers in a meadow provide another example of what appears to be animal perspicacity.

Planted in the fall as a winter cover crop, rapeseed flowers in the early spring.

Common sense in the world of politics is as welcome as the flowers in May.

- Photo Slideshow by Adi Talwar To celebrate Earth Day, the preschoolers at Concourse House, in North Fordham, were outside today sporting their winter coats and planting flowers in the backyard.

Are the police really going to come after people with air freshener or flowers in their home?

David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn arrived together in Birstall, Leeds to lay flowers in honour of murderered Labour MP Jo Cox.

I love this card made from color paper flowers in a heart shape!

These beautiful fingerless gloves use stitches and color choices to create the illusion of flowers in two different areas of the design.

Use floral wire to wrap the stems of the larger flowers in place at the front and use smaller flowers for fillers.

Throw some pink or white flowers in there and you have an instant summer remodel.

I always like to have fresh flowers in our home, a small vase can help bring some nature into the room, a small indoor plant could work well on a high shelf or with an older child.

Getting flowers in our house just turns into a debate on where to keep them so the cat doesn't eat them.

This is a beautiful white diaper with rainbow paint strokes and flowers in the background with the words «Love My Cloth Diapers.»

«The other weekend my 7 - year - old daughter Laurel and I decided to plant flowers in our little backyard.

The aim of all the team at Arena Flowers, from the head florist, who designs the bouquets, to the florists, who personally select and hand - tie your flowers, to the packers, who carefully place your flowers in our specially designed boxes, is to ensure that your flowers will be received with joy and pleasure.

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Originally a hobby that started out when asked to make invitations for friends and family for weddings and other celebrations, Flowers in May took off when her series of collage prints were featured on a popular design blog.

He then decided how he wanted to arrange the flowers in each vase.