Sentences with phrase «queen bee»

Interestingly, queen bee acid is being investigated for cognitive benefits too.
But the real shock came when the researchers realized that the treated colonies had produced 85 % fewer queen bees than the untreated groups.
They will never be a true queen bee, but laying their own eggs puts them in competition.
Some of the most recent research examines what may be affecting queen bees — and how to breed more robust ones.
Wear it with the matching pendant or collar necklaces to show you're the real queen bee.
So, today, I present to you the various ways that a midi skirt can be street - styled as aided by these inspiring queen bees.
She a typical queen bee of cats, can be friendly and affectionate, but on her own terms, and when she says it's enough, that's it, there's nothing you can do J. She's very playful, likes teasing other kitties and occasional chase around the adoption center.
To that end, the Bait Hive attracts the roving queen bee with a pheromone - laced beeswax inside, and once inside, the beekeeper turns the rotating front door — which has various - sized openings — so that the cut openings will allow bee drones inside, but not the queen, out.
The researchers also found queen bees from two of the four species ate less nectar after being exposed to thiamethoxam.
A big - screen adaptation of Rosalind Wiseman's popular book Queen Bees and Wannabes, the film was also notable as the screenwriting debut of Saturday Night Live writer / cast member Tina Fey.
Normally, the honeybee is no exception to this rule: the female queen bee produces new offspring by laying eggs that have been fertilised by sperm from male drones.
Meanwhile, Tarpy found queen bees that spent their larval days in beeswax that was contaminated with a combination of two popular miticides, coumaphos and fluvalinate, had fewer live sperm.
The authors speculate that reasons for the lower losses compared to those of other countries may be due to a high genetic diversity in their honey bees, regular replacement of queen bees by the beekeepers, and because the average size of beekeeping operation is small, meaning that beekeepers can pay close attention to their hives, in particular to the way they control the parasitic varroa mite.
Since I'm always looking for a reason to wear a flower crown, Flowers For Dreams dubbed me the official queen bee for the day.
«Incivility at work: Is «queen bee syndrome» getting worse?.»
The same process that determines why certain bees become queen bees while others with the exact same DNA become worker bees also plays a role in how doughnuts eaten by a pregnant woman may influence whether her child becomes obese.
But McAdams should create a burn book disparaging all the Oscar voters who didn't recognize her insightful, scathing portrayal of queen bee Regina George in Mark Waters and Tina Fey's 2004 comedy.
«We've had the honor of hosting royalty before, but I'm really excited about these new queen bees,» said Joe Hindsley, General Manager of Hyatt Regency Atlanta.
«Environment may change, but microbiome of queen bees does not.»
Once emerged from a larva, a virgin queen will proceed to either lead a swarm from the hive to find new nesting ground or kill the other developing queen bees by stinging them through the wall of their cells.
Casey in ecstasy before the Blessed Sacrament, and later as he calmed a swarm of angry bees by reaching into their hive unprotected to remove a second queen bee and then coaxed the swarm back into the hive by playing his harmonica.
#suarez out (Paco is queen bee now)
«selfish and anti social»... miss queen bee here does nt want babies around when she is travelling coz her precious sleep will get disturbed.
Queen bees struggle to survive even a third of their normal life spans, leaving beekeepers in a constant battle to replace them.
There have been a number of hypotheses suggested to explain queen bee's multiple mates, but there has been no convincing evidence for an adaptive value, says Robert Page, an entomologist at Arizona State University.
The researchers had hoped their finding was evidence that bees may use «nature's medicine cabinet» to rid themselves of the intestinal parasite Crithidia bombi, which can decrease the survival of queen bees over the winter and hamper the success of young colonies in the spring.
The study, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, shows that tree bumblebees have rapidly spread despite them carrying high levels of an infection that normally prevents queen bees from producing colonies.
Typically, the sexually reproducing queen bee produces all of the eggs in the hive.
Farmers eager to increase their crop yields turned to commercial beekeepers, who offered up massive wooden hives stocked with queen bees genetically selected to produce colonies of good pollinators.
ROYAL MESS Queen bee larvae dine on something called royal jelly inside the cells where they grow.
However, his findings are limited to queen bees reared near almond orchards where these pesticides are used, he warns.
Other reasons for hive deaths were much more common, including ailing queen bees, to which beekeepers attributed 32 percent of their dead hives.
Most bumblebees do not live in isolation, but in colonies of tens to hundreds of related individuals founded each year by a single queen bee after the winter's hibernation.
Bears go into light hibernation, turtles fall into a dead sleep, and queen bees hide underground until spring.
The substance is also confirmed: a fatty acid called 10 - hydroxy -2-decenoic acid, AKA queen bee acid, which royal jelly contains in 0.2 % concentrations.
Is produced by working honeybees as food for potential queen bees.
I love that pretty queen bee necklace and you're right, gingham looks so great in the warmer months.
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It was so bittersweet that I wished something would happen for Nick and Sophie at the end - not necessarily sex but just SOMETHING instead of Uncle Dad once again aiding and abetting a lame flirtation with high school queen bee whom the audience hasn't gotten the chance to know and fall in love with yet.
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