Sentences with phrase «nectar from the flowers of»

Bees gather the nectar from the flowers of Manuka Tree.

Both methods for obtaining nectar were effective, but the researchers think that the grooved - tongue bats may have an advantage in acquiring nectar from flowers of certain shapes that hold the sweet liquid differently.

A hawk moth (Manduca sexta) uses its eight - centimeter - long proboscis to drink nectar from a flower of Nicotiana alata, a species of wild tobacco also called jasmine or winged tobacco.

Bees gather the nectar from the flowers of Manuka Tree.

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Made from the sap of cut flower buds from the coconut palm, coconut sugar and coconut nectar are a source of minerals, vitamin C, B vitamins, and some amino acids.

The bees make honey from the nectar of flowers.

In Manuka honey, MG comes from the conversion of another compound — dihydroxyacetone — that is found in high concentration in the nectar of manuka flowers.

Bees eat from the nectar of the manuka bush and its flowers.

Today we're using Manuka Honey (I used Comvita's Manuka Honey), which comes from the nectar of the Mānuka bush, a flower indigenous to New Zealand.

The sweet nectar from the flower blossom of the green coconut palm tree, Coco Nucifera, is collected, boiled and granulated, creating CocoCrystals.

Instead of nectar, researchers suggest the appendage likely helped the winged insects avoid becoming dehydrated in the hot and arid climate of the time by getting sustenance from another source: sweet secretions beaded up into droplets on seed - bearing — as opposed to flowering — plants.

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh studied the nectar secreted by a plant from the passionfruit family during flower and fruit development.

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 birds use their beaks as tools to crack open the hard and woody outer coverings of seeds, pry insects from twigs, and sip nectar from cactus flowers.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the previously undiscovered technology employed by the bat Glossophaga soricina: a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair - like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower.

This tropical butterfly doesn't feed on flower nectar, but instead lives on a diet of juice drawn from rotting fruit.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

A warming world has spurred these changes, researchers conclude, because the total number of flowers has declined in this region — and the shorter tongue enables the bees to suck nectar from more kinds of flowers.

Most of us think of honey bees as having a bucolic, pastoral existence — flying from flower to flower to collect the nectar they then turn into honey.

Just last month, for example, a team reported that bumblebees may use electrical fields to identify flowers recently visited by other insects from those that may still hold lucrative stores of nectar and pollen.

«The narrow face and long labial palps of Euhesma aulaca n. sp. allows the bee to obtain nectar from the flowers from emu - bushes (Eremophila), that have a constriction at the base.»

While looking for her next project, Nasto came upon a study by researchers at Brown University who took high - speed videos of bats drinking nectar from a flower.

After analyzing the videos, they found that, as the animal dipped its tongue in and out of the flower, tiny blood vessels on the hairs of its tongue became engorged with blood, prompting the hairs to stand straight up and drag even more nectar up from the flower.

Researchers have unearthed the earliest evidence of a bird sipping nectar from a flower.

Changes in the size and form of the beak have enabled different species to utilize different food resources such us insects, seeds, nectar from cactus flowers as well as blood from seabirds, all driven by Darwinian selection.

While many of us think of planting flowers for bees, what many people don't realize is that in most areas the honey bee's primary source of nectar is from flowering trees.

Made of nectar from the Manuka flower, Manuka honey is a product of New Zealand — hence its name.

Made from the sap of cut flower buds from the coconut palm, coconut sugar and coconut nectar are a source of minerals, vitamin C, B vitamins, and some amino acids.

Raw coconut nectar, or «coconut palm nectar» comes from the sweet sap that is produced from tapping the thick stalks or stems of the flowering coconut blossom.

«Comvita Certified UMF 20 + Ultra Premium Manuka Honey (MGO 829), comes from the nectar of the Manuka flower in the pristine forests of New Zealand.

Prized for its unique health properties, Manuka Honey comes from the nectar of the Manuka flower in the pristine forests of New Zealand.

* Coconut Palm Sugar is made from the nectar of the flower on the coconut tree so it does NOT taste like coconut.

Raw honey is the concentrated nectar of flowers that comes straight from the extractor; it is unheated, pure, unpasteurized, and unprocessed.

From the nectar of the Manuka flower in the pristine forests of New Zealand, Comvita ® UMF ® Manuka Honey is as potent and alive in the jar as it is in the hive.

Gelsemium sempervirens (Yellow jessamine, Yellow jasmine, Carolina jessamine, Carolina jasmine, evening trumpet flower, gelsemium, woodbine)-- a climbing vine with trumpet shaped yellow flowers that bloom from December to March, all parts of the plant, including the flower nectar, are poisonous

Children have been poisoned by sucking nectar from the flowers, which appear similar to honeysuckle, and dogs that eat any part of the plant are also at risk.

Adults may drink the nectar of composite flowers (sunflower family), using a long tube called a proboscis that extends from the underside of the head.

You'll also hear the hum of thousands of honeybees, all happily collecting nectar from these very same flowers.

While monarch butterflies drink nectar for nourishment from thousands of different species of native and cultivated flowers, the foliage of milkweed is the only food source on which monarch caterpillars can feed.

While we may not be able to change the global situation on our own, each of us can try to make our gardens havens for bees by growing plants with simple and uncomplicated flowers, such as echinacea (above), from which the nectar can be more easily extracted, instead of choosing sophisticated, hybridised blooms.