Sentences with phrase «other bees»

Companies specializing in honey and other bee products can fake almost any product and you will believe the honey you are eating is real.
Five other bees per plant species were treated in the same way, visiting other flowers of the same species with the marked stigma.
The orientation and the length of the movements tell other bees the direction and distance of a food source.
In its unfiltered and unheated state, it contains vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids, as well as traces of other bee products like propolis, pollen, and royal jelly.
The researchers emphasise that these crops are pollinated by other bee species, which in turn, may depend on a more natural environment.
Also food stores in collapsing colonies don't get raided by other bees as a failing colony's treasures usually do.
Thus the honeybee dance is a great adaptation: It tells hive mates precisely where to find some choice, pollen - rich plants while keeping the information secret from other bees.
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Currently several other bee species, such as the blue orchard variety, are commercially available and may help farmers supplement honeybee populations.
The same research also looked at how other bee species dealt with the insecticide and saw mixed population responses.
His early experiments showed that bees must possess some means of communication, because when a rich source of food (he used concentrated sugar solution) is found by one bee, the food is soon visited by numerous other bees from the same hive.
If one worker bee senses danger she emits a warning pheromone that summons other bees to the fight.
The tired insects had more variation in the angle of their dances, and as a result gave other bees poor directions to a food source.
For more than half a century, biologists have been driven a little crazy trying to figure out why honeybees, unlike other bee species, perform an elaborate dance to tell their cohorts where the best flowers are.
Later, while hunting for a place to establish another hive, Nyuki becomes separated from the swarm and learns about mantises and other bee predators.
When the attacked bees returned to their hives, they made stop signals that increased in pitch according to the size of the predator (as the bee with the red dot is doing in the video above), inhibiting other bees» waggle dances (which tell bees where to forage), the scientists report online today in PLOS Biology.
Release of alarm pheromones near a hive or swarm may attract other bees to the location, where they will likewise exhibit defensive behaviors until there is no longer a threat (typically because the victim has either fled or been killed).
Wester and colleagues placed other bees in cages with flowers whose pollen - producing anthers and pollen - collecting stigmas had been stained with fluorescent dyes.
To see whether other bees could learn from the experienced foragers, Mirwan confined inexperienced bees in a mesh container near the artificial flowers where they could observe the experienced bees.
Meanwhile, vanEngelsdorp is working with breeders to create bees that are resistant to Varroa mites and other bee illnesses, without the need for pesticides.
Other bees watched a «ghost» — a magnet beneath the platform — move the farthest ball.
«Some crops can only be pollinated by bumblebees, for instance, because they rely on the specific way a bumblebee buzzes, or vibrates when it reaches a flower, is what shakes out the pollen, and other bees just can't do that,» Frank said.
Noting their sharp, distinctive odor and how other bees avoided any contact with them, Flora drew closer to Sister Sage and her fragrant wake.
In Carlos Schwartz's The Dance 2, for example, the Spanish artist utilizes the honeybee «waggle dance,» a series of movements intended to inform other bees of the location of nearby food sources, to create two drawings based on the dance's two variations.
Most people think of honey as a delicious ingredient to add to their desserts, have in their tea or spread on a piece of toast, but did you know that honey, as well as a myriad of other bee products, have some pretty amazing healing powers?
In a second study recently published in Psyche, the researchers found bees learned by watching and communicating with other bees, a process called social learning.
It can also contain propolis and bee pollen, two other bee products with healing benefits.
As strange as it sounds, I was stung by a bee in the process and also ran around the kitchen after several other bees that had smelled the honey and came into to see what was going on.
The absence of a single dominant bumblebee species from an ecosystem disrupts foraging patterns among a broad range of remaining pollinators in the system — from other bees to butterflies, beetles and more, field experiments show.
Bumblebees (species with the genus name Bombus) are, like other bees, in trouble.
I did witness some robbing of the hives by other bees.
However, their populations have decreased in some states, so inclusion in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Federal Register may help keep them and other bee species at healthy population levels.
Then they fly back to their other bee friends and make fun of me.
He also sells pollen, lip balm, a book about his experiences with killer bees, and other bee - related products.
The Mayo Clinic recommends that anyone who is allergic to, or is particularly sensitive to celery, pollen or other bee - related allergies avoids raw honey all - together.
Paxton adds that other bee species are not able to adjust as well to these agricultural practices and their populations are therefore much lower.
Debating the role of climate change While the honeybee, whose hived colonies are managed and fed sugar water when the necessary nectar is absent, is adaptable enough and managed enough to survive despite significant losses, the same is by no means true of all the other bees.
When the scouts return to the several - thousand - strong swarm, they dance atop the other bees, telling them what they have found.
Perhaps the most important is a tiny 26 - amino - acid peptide called melittin, which constitutes more than half of the venom of honey bees and is found in a number of other bees and wasps.
How do they communicate this information to other bees?
Although stingless bees have lost this heroic ability, they still suffer predation and attack from animals ranging from anteaters to other bees — and have taken to biting instead.
Such bees are also able to invade the nests of other bees and continue to reproduce in this fashion, eventually taking over the foreign nests, a behaviour called social parasitism.
Nor do honeybees do the buzz - in - place move that some other bees use to shake pollen out of the pores on the blueberry flower anthers.
While stinging is a great way to defend against larger vertebrate predators, the main threats to stingless bees are ants and other bees.
When female larvae are fed royal jelly, secreted by other bees, they develop into large, fertile queens.
It is the first time that workers have been caught taking over the hives of other bees.
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