Sentences with phrase «real bee»

Observations of real bees showed that up to 47 % of bees collected within 30 metres of the greenhouses were infected with C. bombi, but this number declined with increasing distance, with very few infected bees found within 2.4 and 6 km of the greenhouses.

The researchers tested how well the simulated bees would perform on tasks commonly used to explore learning in real bees.

A robotic bee can tell real bees the best places to forage, and at least some of the time they seem to get the message.

Unexpectedly, the «mutant bees» performed just as well on many (but not all) of the odor learning tasks as do real bees with intact mushroom bodies.

Its image - processing system tries to emulate the way real bees process images, with low - resolution camera «eyes» taking continual snapshots and forwarding information to the RoboBee's «brain.»

In high season, when there's a lot of dancing to compete with, he says, the real bees would not have paid much attention to the fake bee.

Or they could pollinate flowers or crops — a pressing concern now that real bees are dying off from disease, chemical toxins and other causes.

The entire mechanism weighs 13.4 mg, bringing the total weight of the robot to about 100 mg — similar to the weight of a real bee.

In the center, between the driver and front passenger, the design team added a real bee encased in amber and integrated into a rotating shifter that lights up a honeycomb pattern.

This little fella is a real honey even if he isn't a real bee.

In more sculptural works — like two leg - like planks gunked with dried beeswax, or a series of curved forms arrayed along the floor — Sanders's chosen material recalls the viscous petroleum jelly favored by Matthew Barney (himself a real bee freak, incidentally).