Sentences with phrase «of carpenter bees»

But after discovering the big cinderblock building to the left was positively swarming with hundreds of carpenter bees...

Analyzing DNA sequences of four «tribes» of 230 species of carpenter bees from every continent except Antarctica for insight into evolutionary relationships, the researchers began to see patterns consistent with a mass extinction.

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They can eat bees, though he has run across an account suggesting even this voracious species finds swallowing a big carpenter bee a bit uncomfortable, performing «abdominal motions suggestive of the Hawaiian hula.»

The Australian small carpenter bee populations appear to have dramatically flourished in the period of global warming following the last Ice Age some 18,000 years ago.

Being so much bigger, carpenter bees weren't troubled by the ants (Journal of Ecology, DOI: 10.1111 / 1365 - 2745.12006).

Lead author Sandra Rehan, an assistant professor of biological sciences at UNH, worked with colleagues Michael Schwarz at Australia's Flinders University and Remko Leys at the South Australia Museum to model a mass extinction in bee group Xylocopinae, or carpenter bees, at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Paleogene eras, known as the K - T boundary.

Radio telemetry has been successfully applied to study the movement of individual insects such as carpenter bees [11], beetles [18], Mormon crickets [19] and migrating dragonflies [20], [21].

They were a riff on carpenter bees and would build crates around everything: people, cars, dogs... the forms were like that Magritte painting of a coffin sitting upright.