Sentences with phrase «hairs on the bees»

Long hairs on the bees» legs helped hold the pollen pellets in place as the animals flew, the team reported last week at the 70th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Denver.

In a new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers used a laser vibrometer — a tiny machine that hits the bee hair with a laser — to measure how the hair on a bee's body responds to a flower's tiny electric field.

Not exact matches

Hooke, an early developer of the compound microscope, used his device to peer at the eyes of flies, the stinger on a bee, hairs, bristles, sand particles, seeds, and more, noting every detail with both words and masterful illustrations.

The concept of safe sites for pollen transfer on bees» bodies does not put the major role of bees as pollinators into question, but might focus future research to guidance of bees on flowers to take favorable positions for safe pollen transport by means of floral filtering of suitable pollinators [26], morphological match between pollinators and flowers [54] and floral guides [55] as well as potential strategies of flower visitors to bypass the flowers» restrictions (e.g. bees with specialised hairs for pollen collection from specialised bee - flowers)[26] or strategies of plants via shifting to non-pollen collecting pollinators (e.g. birds)[56 — 57,64 — 66].

With a swatch of sticky hair, this drone can fill in for bees, picking up pollen from one flower and leaving it on another.