Sentences with phrase «of bumblebee»

In the image above, you also get a glimpse of the Bumblebee wallpaper by Farrow & Ball that lines the back of my closets.

What I do is look up some version of Flight of the Bumblebee on You Tube.

Their wings vibrate at an incredible 200 beats per second — which is even faster than Rimsky - Korsakov's «Flight of the Bumblebee.»

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen reports on the final assault by the Obama Administration against Western States — and a new war being declared against much of the rest of the country — all to «save» three species of bumblebee but really intended to place much of the rest of private and state land in the U.S. under very restrictive federal government control.

Over at The Guardian, Alok Jha writes that 4 common species of bumblebee in the US have seen declines in population of as much as 96 % in the last few decades:

According to the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK, three of the 25 British species of bumblebee are already extinct and half of the remainder have shown serious declines, often up to 70 %, since around the 1970s.

,» then he and the others — Dynasty Battles, Michelle Cann, and Adam Tender — would be at it again, united, charging deeper into the piece, like a metal version of Flight of the Bumblebee improbably written for piano.

Introducing Bumblebee I, Ferruccio, and Simone, the other half of Bumblebee, used to work for the same company, years ago.

Who's going to order an Asus tablet in error when what they really wanted was a model of Bumblebee?

These are shots of Bumblebee and Barricade from the upcoming Transformers film.

There's just enough time to gird your loins, a momentary delay while the engine boosts power to the supercharger, then the rear end squats and you sense the driveshafts take up the slack before successfully deploying all 575 lb ft to a noise like a clan of gorillas beating their chests in time to «Flight of the Bumblebee».

Last week, Bay showed off the newest iteration of Bumblebee, which is now a sixth - generation Chevrolet Camaro and still sports the same bright yellow exterior color as the original one in 2007 film.

Hot Rod, the rambunctious and rebellious young Autobot, has been revealed as a member of the cast in what seems to be a repainted deco of Bumblebee.

The logical explanation would be that they might have some sort of flashback of Bumblebee on Cybertron.

This is interesting, since Hasbro reportedly told investors that Paramount was going to go through and reboot the live - action franchise after the release of Bumblebee later this year.

Late last week, Transformers fans were told by Hasbro that the movie franchise was heading into reboot territory following the release of Bumblebee.

The latter aspect is already promising to have a large impact on the overall tone of the Bumblebee film, with the solo outing said to be much more reminiscent of The Iron Giant or the Amblin films of the 1980s than the action extravaganzas that the Bay films were.

This could imply that Hopkins» character, assuming the comment was pre-emptively about him, will provide the voice for Goldbug - an evil, alternate reality version of Bumblebee - or possibly another Autobot such as Ultra Magnus (assuming he's not simply playing a human in the film, that is).

Hasbro announces that the live - action Transformers movies will be rebooted following the release of Bumblebee.

Plus, seeing as how this is based on an earlier version of the script, there's no scene of Bumblebee peeing oil on John Turturro.

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.

They represent between one - quarter and one - third of the bumblebee's adult life.

The sequencing of these bumblebee genomes constitutes a great leap forward for the study of bee biology and the understanding of the organisation of insect societies.

«Here we show for the first time that the management of uncropped land under Higher Level Stewardship can significantly increase the size of bumblebee populations.»

The study revealed multiple interconnected diseases that are threatening several species of bumblebee and the managed honeybee, which are essential pollinators of many agricultural crops and wild flowers.

University of Sussex PhD researcher Thomas Wood, supervised by bumblebee expert Professor Dave Goulson, compared farms with and without HLS schemes to measure the abundance of bumblebee colonies.

In the new study, scientists identified the parasite, Apicystis bombi, in three species of bumblebee — the native bumblebee; B. terrestris; and another European bumblebee, B. ruderatus — in Patagonia.

If a single, dominant species of bumblebee mainly visits an alpine sunflower, for instance, other pollinators — including other species of bumblebees — are less likely to visit alpine sunflowers.

These changes had direct implications for plant reproduction: Larkspurs produced about one - third fewer seeds when one of the bumblebee species was removed, compared to the larkspurs in the control groups.

Across the steps of the pollination process, from patterns of bumblebee visits to plants, to picking up pollen, to seed production, the researchers saw a cascading effect of removing one bee species.

Kerr and his colleagues analysed more than 420,000 records of bumblebee sightings and activity between 1901 and 2010, and covering 67 species — 31 in North America and 36 in Europe.

«Neonics put bumblebees at risk of extinction by hindering colony formation, study reveals: Exposure to thiamethoxam reduces the chances of a bumblebee queen starting a new colony by more than a quarter.»

Additional lab tests showed that unaltered scent is attractive to a common type of bumblebee (Bombus terrestris); bees preferred spending time in scent - laced air over scent - free air, the researchers say.

«These spring queens represent the next generation of bumblebee colonies.»

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.

Robinson notes that genomic imprinting can't be confirmed until the full genome of the bumblebee is available, but says that this paper «represents an important first step.»

She points out three species of bumblebee, each with a unique pattern of black and yellow stripes.

The Marsbees (man, what a weird word to keep typing) are described as «robotic flapping wing flyers of a bumblebee size with cicada - sized wings.»

Though he may be stimulated by the sting of some bumblebee to heroic display and frenzied abandon, he will return to the simple wonder of sniffing daisies under his marvelous cork tree.

Sounds: a rushing stream, wind in the leaves, mockingbirds chirp chattering, the soft hum of bumblebees dipping in and out of the laurel blossoms.

Half of the bumblebees received a sugar treat before the test, and these entered the ambiguous middle station more quickly than those that didn't.

Deformed wing virus appeared in 36 percent of honeybees and 11 percent of the multiple species of bumblebees tested.

When we think of animals doing tricks, we're likely to think of dogs or maybe even a parrot But you probably didn't think of bumblebees.

Low levels of pesticides can impact the foraging behaviour of bumblebees on wildflowers, changing their floral preferences and hindering their ability to learn the skills needed to extract nectar and pollen, according to a study co-authored by a University of Guelph professor.

The project reveals that at just 2oC, 72 per cent of bumblebees in Norfolk could be lost, along with 75 per cent of grasshoppers and bush crickets, and 68 per cent of larger moths.

Low levels of pesticides can impact the foraging behaviour of bumblebees on wild flowers, according to a study co-authored by a University of Guelph professor.

Additionally, 83 per cent of shield bugs, 84 per cent of moths, 78 per cent of bumblebees, and 45 per cent of butterflies including the Small Tortoiseshell could also be affected.

Many of the bumblebees that first arose sport tongues about half the length of their bodies, having evolved special relationships with particular long - tubed flowers.

This evolutionary ecologist, from the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and her colleagues measured tongue lengths of two species of bumblebees, Bombus balteatus and B. sylvicola, collected between 1966 and 1980 and again between 2012 and 2014.

«The loss of bumblebees potentially has a major impact on pollination of crops and other plants,» he added.