Sentences with phrase «of sweat bee»

William Wcislo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, and his colleagues dissected the brains of sweat bee queens, workers and asocial individuals and measured the size of an area called the mushroom bodies.

The air is full of sweat bees, lapping up precious moisture from exposed skin.

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He points to data showing that plants from treated seeds can «sweat out» minute quantities of the insecticide into morning dew, a beverage popular with bees.

«This diverse range of habitat provides excellent conditions for native sweat bees,» explains Professor Robert Paxton from the Institute of Biology at MLU, where Paxton and PhD student Patricia Landaverde - González have studied 37 sites on Yucatán.

There appears to be no direct, negative impact of moderate farming on populations of native sweat bees, the major pollinators of chilli.

In the pantheon of social insects, sweat bees (Megalopta genalis) have a lowly position.

Sean O'Donnell of the University of Washington, Seattle, who works on brain development in social insects, including sweat bees, says this is the first time that it has been shown that participation in a social group is associated with augmented brain development.

One of the things I learned while working there was to be able to sit for hours — even while attacked by sweat bees — and watch as behavior unfolded, sometimes very slowly.