Tip: Don't spend $ 60
on a bumblebee costume when you have black and yellow clothes at home.
As production continues
on Bumblebee, Deadline has revealed that John Ortiz (Miami Vice, Kong: Skull Island) has become the latest addition to the cast of the Transformers spinoff, signing on for an unspecified role.
Transformers 5 (Transformers: The Last Knight) is aimed to be a continuation of the mega Hasbro movie franchise but also a fresh start for newcomers that will launch - you guessed it - a share cinematic universe Marvel style) with the first spinoff coming in 2018 based
on Bumblebee.
With production
on Bumblebee under way, hopefully we'll find out more about this spin - off soon.
Hailee Steinfeld offers our first look at her hard rocking mechanic Charlie Watson as production continues
on Bumblebee.
He says that to understand why many bumblebees aren't budging north, researchers will need to focus
on bumblebee biology, which in some ways is still a mystery.
This is also important as previous evidence indicates that different neonicotinoids may exert opposing effects
on bumblebee queen production and sex ratios of colonies.
In stark contrast to other studies, where imidacloprid and thiamethoxam were found to be toxic to bumblebee colonies, this study raises the possibility that clothianidin may not exert the same sub-lethal effects
on bumblebee learning and memory and so might not be toxic to bumblebee colonies.
The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is exacting about using non-destructive methodologies so that researchers don't have a negative impact
on the bumblebee populations.
About the size of «a hair
on a bumblebee,» he says, with a circuit the size of a dime, it contains no optical lenses and works by allowing a small volume of fluid to flow across a microchip, which then sends images of the sample to a computer.
Muth plans to purchase equipment that will improve her research on the impact of pesticides
on bumblebee foraging and pollination behaviors.
Raine said there is an increasing need for field - realistic research into the impact of all pesticides
on bumblebees and other wild pollinators.
In S. pratensis, 20 % of the safe site area
on the bumblebees» thorax was contaminated by the pollen - sacs and 9 % by the stigmas.
Climate change impacts
on bumblebees converge across continents.
We'll get back to the specific influence of climate change
on bumblebees and other pollinators soon.
Not exact matches
@ Ehren, you might want to check up
on your story in regards to
bumblebee flight.
There was contradiction and apparent impossibility, but
bumblebees kept
on flying.
Like this
bumblebee on a serrano flower, insects will carry pollen from flower to flower, cross-pollinating them
Let me offer a totally baseless theory for why he chose to wear a Gucci sweater with a
bumblebee on the front:
In July use the grasshopper and the
bumblebee from the meadow; also young bees and young hornets; also a big - brindled fly found
on paths in meadows, and the fly found
on anthills.
From guitars, anchors and boom boxes to skulls,
bumblebees and purple leopard print, Honest Diapers come in so many cute designs, you won't want to put pants
on your baby!
It could even be something relatively minor — did you pass a big barking dog
on your daily walk or did she have to run away from a
bumblebee while she was playing outside?
For instance, in the book «Ferdinand», there is a question: «If you were a
bumblebee and a bull sat
on you, what would you do?»
We are also lead partners
on two other species, the Monarch Butterfly and the Rusty Patched
Bumblebee, and are currently working with Chicago Wilderness developing strategies to protect these species throughout the region.
Fly like a
bumblebee with the Hasakee, one of the best toy drones
on the market!
The rusty patched
bumblebee, Bombus affinis, recently became the first U.S.
bumblebee species to be placed
on the endangered species list, but a Kansas State University entomologist says
bumblebee endangerment is nothing to be bugged about.
So we already knew that
bumblebees exhibited a sidedness when they landed
on flowers.
They illustrate these consequences based
on the recent spread of invasive European
bumblebees, especially the buff - tailed
bumblebee Bombus terrestris from Chile to southern Argentina.
Now, strolling through his fields
on a spring day, he recognizes a variety of insects visiting the blossoms — from plump
bumblebees to slender, iridescent solitary bees.
Bumblebees can detect and make sense of electric fields using the tiny hairs
on their body.
Evidence for a methylation system in
bumblebees could be a sign of something deeper going
on, suggests Eamonn Mallon, an entomologist at the University of Leicester and the lead author
on the study.
Gene Robinson, a geneticist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, says that the paper «opens a new line of study
on the role of epigenetics in controlling reproductive conflict» in
bumblebees.
Scientists, meanwhile, are vigorously debating whether the studies
on neonicotinoids and the health of honeybees and
bumblebees, mostly conducted in laboratory settings, accurately reflect what is happening to bees in the field.
The findings show an important role for epigenetics in
bumblebees, and suggest that whether a gene is turned off or
on depends
on whether it comes from the father or the mother.
Scientists believe the spread of tree
bumblebees could have both positive and negative impacts
on native bees.
The researchers allowed
bumblebee foragers to feed
on an array of artificial flowers and used harmonic radar technology to follow individuals continuously over every foraging trip they made as they gradually developed solutions to the problem of how to visit them all.
He and his colleagues trained
bumblebees to distinguish between a blue flower placed
on the left side of a container and a green one
on the right.
In general,
bumblebees with longer tongues are considered «specialists» which feed
on flowers with deep, long tubes, while short - tongued
bumblebees, in contrast, are «generalists» and tend to move pollen from a variety of flowers.
There has been research
on the microbiome of honeybees and
bumblebees, but very little
on wild bees.
To understand how floral characteristics can combine to influence the decisions
bumblebees make about which flowers to visit, Robert Gegear, assistant professor of biology and biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), had bees forage
on arrays of paper representations of typical «hummingbird flowers» (red coloration, horizontal orientation) and «bee flowers» (lavender or blue coloration, upright orientation).
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.
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.
Here the
bumblebee has placed its left front foot
on the string to pull it.
«Given the vital role spring queens have in maintaining
bumblebee populations, we decided to focus
on assessing the impacts at this stage in the life cycle,» said Raine, a professor in the School of Environmental Sciences.
«The loss of
bumblebees potentially has a major impact
on pollination of crops and other plants,» he added.
Bumblebees can learn to pull strings for food and pass
on the ability to a colony, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
By focusing
on domesticated bees, the claim goes, we are neglecting a far more endangered pollinator, the wild
bumblebee.
«This study shows that neonicotinoids could be having a devastating effect
on wild
bumblebee populations,» said Raine.
Bumblebees are quite gentle
on the whole.»
He found significantly greater numbers of common
bumblebees on HLS farms and, crucially, evidence of far higher nesting density, indicating population growth.