Sentences with phrase «in wild bees»

In the areas that have seen the most serious reduction in wild bees, there have been 200 % increases in the amount of corn planted.

«Managed honeybees linked to new diseases in wild bees, UK study shows.»

The N. bombi - related declines in wild bees occurred shortly after many commercial bumble bee operations collapsed as a result of N. bombi infections, Cameron said.

«Flowers critical link to bacteria transmission in wild bees: Research shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria.»

«Climate change can also disrupt the timing of plant flowering or bee emergence, resulting in wild bees emerging before or after ample forage is available,» it adds.

Both of these pathogens showed up in wild bees collected randomly at 26 sites around Great Britain.

Also reported this week, a team of British scientists similarly builds on earlier work in wild bees.

Not exact matches

There were also eggs of turkeys, iguanas, and turtles, roasted, boiled, and in omelettes; reptiles of various kinds; shrimps, sardines, and crabs; wild amaranth seeds and tule roots; honey of bees, of maize, and of the maguey, and portions of maguey stalks and leaves, which were eaten roasted.

According to Booth, the Africanized bees moved into Arizona in 1993, and today all of the wild honeybees in the state are killer bees, with a whopping total of 4 to 4 million hives.

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This week, I've been having my oatmeal with pure orange juice, cinnamon, plain yogurt, gorgeous, local pears (seriously, these are the best pears I've ever had), pluots (bought them for the first time last week and am obsessed by their beauty and sweet flavor), toasted coconut flakes, wild hazelnuts that I brought with me from Germany (they look like acorns, though), almonds, pistachios, and bee pollen (a new ingredient in my kitchen).

-- Chocolate Gold: a sweet chocolate love sauce; (to swirl in the ice cream, or on top for decoration)-- goji berries / dried mulberries / raisins — wild jungle peanut butter (to swirl in the ice cream, or on top for decoration)-- coconut shreds — fresh bee pollen — raw cacao nibs

Prioritizing the wellness of the bees that pollinate across the island's wild landscape, the honey is harvested during North America's winter season, which is the beginning of summer time in New Zealand.

His name is Peter Cowan, and he is widely known in Maine for swooping in to save wild swarms of bees and calming the fears of parents like me.

He was also a visiting research fellow at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, visiting in 1998 to study pollinator ecology, which included different species of bees and hoverflies, and again in 2003 to study wild bee ecology.

More than 10,000 years ago, somewhere in the Andean foothills between Argentina and Bolivia, two wild legume species mixed, probably with the help of some pollinating bees.

Wild and domestic bees are both in deep trouble.

Researchers at the University of York mapped population data for 62 wild bee species sprinkled across the United Kingdom along with neonicotinoid treatment in local oilseed rape (Brassica napus) fields over 18 years.

For example, they can scatter hole - punched bee blocks in their gardens in which wild bees can nest.

Greenleaf and Kremen counted 33 species of wild bee in the sunflower fields of Central Valley in California.

Jim Cane, an entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bee Biology and Systematics Lab in Utah, is working on ways that wild bees could replace honeybees on some crops, rather than merely supplementing them.

Even though the study looked at wild bees in Great Britain, the same transmission dynamics could easily show up in North America, says coauthor Mark J.F. Brown of Royal Holloway, University of London.

Commercial bees in stressful, often unhygienic working conditions may spread their pathogens to wild pollinators, a large study suggests.

These are tough times for bees, both in the wild and in colonies that commercial beekeepers and farmers manage.

This bee, which is common as a wild pollinator in Great Britain, died on average six days sooner if infected with the virus.

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.

«Climate change has had a notable impact upon the distribution of many wild bees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.&rabees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.&raBees.»

Part of this will involve extensive breeding programs (which work better in desert regions than in jungles, where there are lots of wild bees messing up the gene pool) and part will involve educating beekeepers and fighting a stereotype that African bees are always bad and European ones good.

The logs were prepared in the manner of local Masai tribespeople, who tend wild bees for honey.

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.

Controversial insecticides known as neonicotinoids pose a danger to wild bees and managed honey bees, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy, said in a report released today.

Moreover, the task force told agencies to make sure that wild and native bees weren't left in the lurch.

In response, USDA Chief Scientist Catherine Woteki told GAO that it would be «physically and fiscally impossible» to track the roughly 4000 North American species of wild and native bees But she said it would be «informative» to monitor a smaller number of «sentinel species,» each of which could serve as a proxy for multiple bee species.

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

In 2008, Tscharntke selected nine major strawberry varieties and planted them in an experimental field with plenty of wild bees and domesticated honey bees living nearbIn 2008, Tscharntke selected nine major strawberry varieties and planted them in an experimental field with plenty of wild bees and domesticated honey bees living nearbin an experimental field with plenty of wild bees and domesticated honey bees living nearby.

An independent experiment in boosting almond yields has mixed the wild blue orchard bee species with rented honeybees in California fields, says Theresa Pitts - Singer of the Department of Agriculture's Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, Utah.

(Bee diversity matters: a study in 1993 showed that wild bees specialize in pollinating the base of the flower, while honey bees prefer the top.

Pollination by honey bees and wild bees helps prevent deformities and other problems in strawberries.

Jeremy Kerr, a biologist at the University of Ottawa in Canada, thinks it should only be used inside greenhouses, away from wild bees.

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Orchid bees were best at dealing with 35 % solutions, which is exactly the sugar concentration of nectar that the animals collect in the wild, whereas lapping species, such as honeybees, prefer more syrupy nectar, with a sugar concentration of around 55 %, Borrell reports online this week in Biology Letters.

In contrast, on conventional monoculture farms with large swaths of a single crop the wild bees barely made a dent.

In big fields — 1.5 to 16 acres — wild bees accomplished only 11 percent of pollination.

A recent study published in the journal Science found that in a span of 120 years, Illinois lost half its wild bee species, largely because of diminished numbers of wild flowering plants.

(The wild bees naturally nest in abandoned holes in trees created by beetles.)

Wild bees could become more important because of the decline in numbers of honey bees due to colony collapse disorder, which has resulted in the loss of more than 10 million hives in the past decade.

The research, which was just published in the journal Microbial Ecology, shows for the first time that multiple flower and wild bee species share several of the same types of bacteria.

The research on the wild bee microbiome, or the community of microorganisms that live in the bee, follows similar work on the human microbiome that has surged in popularity in the past decade.

McFrederick believes that the bacteria might help preserve the nectar and pollen the wild bee stores in her nest as a food source for her soon - to - be born larvae.

Like honey bees, wild bees pollinate crops, but there is no way to effectively manage them so they can be shipped to a site, like honeybees are, to pollinate a specific crop, such as almond trees in central California.