Sentences with phrase «on bee pollination»

We know that the outlook is dire for the bees, and just as dire for humans who depend on bee pollination for food crops.

A plague of parasitic mites is exterminating New York bee colonies, threatening $ 500 million in losses from the state's annual agricultural production that relies on bee pollination and honey production.

Not exact matches

Since 1976, Blue Diamond has been funding research in more than 70 projects focused on the health of bees, pollination and colony health.

New research exploring the effects of bee pollination on quality and quantity of coffee shows promise both for bees and coffee farmers.

Letting the kids learn about bees, how they make honey and their role in pollination is exactly what we did in this hands on, pretend play activity.

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Fewer bees mean that fewer plants can be pollinated, and around 70 per cent of all plants grown on the Yucatán Peninsula depend on pollination.

About a quarter of our food production is dependent on honey bee pollination.

Winfree notes the relatively primitive state of pollination ecology: most research on bee diversity has simply counted the number of species, without tracking their fates over time.

Instead, he was taken aback by the sixfold increase in the growth rate of crops that depend on domesticated bees for pollination.

Further research should focus on how our native bees are affected and the pollination services that this new species provides.»

Because the bulk of Michigan's blueberries are grown on large farms, Isaacs estimated that wild bees provide just 12 percent of the state's blueberry pollination.

One third of our food is dependent on the pollination of fruits, nuts and vegetables by bees and other insects.

Bee - assisted pollination helps produce about 30 percent of our food, but bees have fallen on hard times, posing a serious threat to food security.

The researchers conducted a pilot study using their comprehensive approach to assess the pollination performance of various bee species on economically important highbush blueberry crops in North Carolina.

From tomatoes to pumpkins, most fruit and vegetable crops rely on pollination by bees and other insect species — and the future of many of those species is uncertain.

To be on the safe site — ungroomed spots on the bee's body and their importance for pollination.

These findings suggest that these «safe sites» for pollen on bees» bodies play an important role in pollination.

Dr Vallejo - Marin said: «Our findings have implications for the effects of pesticides on bee populations as well as the pollination services they provide.

Thus, the study of safe sites on the bees» bodies and the pollen grains» ride in space and time and their role in pollination still remains a challenge.

Flowering plants often rely on animals - for example, bees or bats - for pollination.

The work re-ignites arguments to ban neonics, and certainly comparable studies are now need on other pollinator species given that honey bees are by no means the contributor to crop pollination.»

On average, only 2 % of wild bee species were responsible for 80 % of the pollination visits witnessed by researchers around the world, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

Many of the foods we eat rely to some degree on the honey bee for pollination.

Efforts to grow the trees on cultivated land often fail because it is difficult for the species of bee required for pollination to survive in such an environment.

Birds, butterflies, bees and flowers set against a backdrop of reflective material literally hold a mirror to nature, while gold - toned plexiglas backings on her pollination paintings evoke pollen.

«The evidence is overwhelming that hundreds of the native bees we depend on for ecosystem stability, as well as pollination services worth billions of dollars, are spiraling toward extinction,» says Kelsey Kopec, a native pollinator researcher at the Center and author of the study.

«With roughly one third of the US diet dependent on one species of bee for pollination, it's essential to understand what is happening to bees and correct course.»

(The fact that without bees» pollination services we'll be hard pushed to grow many of the crops we rely on for survival may have something to do with it!)

Apart from a pollination industry relying on only a few managed pollinators, more than 4000 other species of bees are native to North America.

The study also showed that 39 % of US croplands that depend on pollinators are suffering a significant mismatch between the demand for pollination and the supply of bees.

The researchers believe that the scale of wild bee decline will push farmers to rely even more heavily on commercial honey bee operators who travel across the US, hiring out colonies for pollination.

Currently she is working on projects to increase pollinator friendly habitat in Maryland, to study urban pollution using honey bees as environmental samplers, and to investigate the biophysical properties of plants during the pollination event.

According to ISRAEL21c, last winter, over 36 percent of US bee colonies collapsed, affecting honey production, but more significantly, the collapsed affected one - third of all food production that requires pollination - from fruits and nuts, to the dairy and beef cows that feed on alfalfa.

However, Tucker says he also sees a growing interest from older home owners, some of whom are having trouble finding wild bees for fruit trees and other plants that rely on pollination.