Sentences with phrase «research on the bee»

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.

Most prior research on the bee — pesticide relationship has only involved feeding the chemicals to small populations in lab settings or observing a few populations in nature for a couple of weeks.

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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.

According to Frazier, the team's previous research demonstrated that forager bees bring back to the hive an average of six different pesticides on the pollen they collect.

For decades, bee parasite research has focused on honeybees, says Peter Graystock of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.

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

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

Other Discover assignments included articles on savants, artificial sight, bee research (during which Smolka endured multiple stings), and finally, in the July 2003 issue last year, an article on human pheromones.

This latest research is part of continuing studies into the effects of air pollution on bees.

A Review of Research into the Effects of Neonicotinoid Insecticides on Bees, with Recommendations for Action.

Scientists have announced the results of research conducted on honey bee colony declines and the factors attributed to honey bee losses.

There has been research on the microbiome of honeybees and bumblebees, but very little on wild bees.

On the upside, in June Congress passed the Farm Bill, which for the first time provides funds for pollinator protection — up to $ 20 million per year for the next five years to support research into honeybee and native bee biology as well as into CCD's causes and remedies.

The research on the wild bee microbiome, or the community of microorganisms that live in the bee, follows similar work on the human microbiome that has surged in popularity in the past decade.

Now, new research has shed light on how plants control how much pollen each bee extracts from them — taste, according to a study published today in the journal Biology Letters.

Some of the first research on the disorder isolated signs of an unusual virus among the bee genes, but the virus was exonerated as the cause of the disorder after other scientists detected the virus in bees collected before the disorder appeared, noted Berenbaum.

For this research, McFrederick and co-authors collected bees and flowers at two sites in Texas and one on the UC Riverside campus.

The 4 - year - old institute consists of six core research areas focused on a wide range of technologies, from cancer vaccines to robotic bees that will pollinate plants.

In the first large - scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.

«Extensive surveys are now needed on the distribution of the flies in the global honey bee population,» says bee pathologist Elke Genersch of the Institute for Bee Research in Hohen Neuendorf, Germany, who was not involved in the study.

The new multi-locus metabarcoding method involves all three markers and could serve as a valuable tool for research on the native bee species that comprise local bee communities.

«The life of an NSF Program Officer,» a three - part series posted on The Spandrel Shop blog by honey bee research Michelle Elekonich of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Peter Bernhardt, Ph.D., a professor of biology at SLU and research associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in Sydney, New South Wales, has been studying reproductive patterns in wildflowers in six countries for over 40 years and, like most dedicated scientists, thrives on new discoveries such as how bees respond to the color of the flowers they pollinate.

The research focused on identifying similarities and differences between these transatlantic cousins, using bees from Thurgau, Switzerland, and Michigan, USA.

The concept of safe sites for pollen transfer on bees» bodies does not put the major role of bees as pollinators into question, but might focus future research to guidance of bees on flowers to take favorable positions for safe pollen transport by means of floral filtering of suitable pollinators [26], morphological match between pollinators and flowers [54] and floral guides [55] as well as potential strategies of flower visitors to bypass the flowers» restrictions (e.g. bees with specialised hairs for pollen collection from specialised bee - flowers)[26] or strategies of plants via shifting to non-pollen collecting pollinators (e.g. birds)[56 — 57,64 — 66].

Recent research in Europe and the USA has demonstrated that insecticides known as neonicotinoids have a substantial impact on honey bee health.

While the initial research has focused on a very specific asthma allergen, Professor Steptoe believes the process could be applied to many other severe allergic responses, such as peanuts, bee venom and shell fish.

Molecular basis of scouting behaviors in honey bees Zhengzheng Liang, Neuroscience Program, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, USA Dissociating epigenetic mechanisms of memory in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex of rats Krista Mitchnick, Department of Psychology, Collaborative Neuroscience Program, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada Determining the heritability of locomotor sensitization to ethanol and its relationship to ethanol's positive motivational effects in mice David Linsenbardt, Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Department of Psychology, Indiana University — Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Rufy1 or Hnrnph1 is a likely quantitative trait gene for methamphetamine sensitivity Camron Bryant, Laboratory of Addiction Genetics, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Massechusetts, USA

«This research highlights how the fate of Europe's bees doesn't just depend on their ecology, or on the land use where they live, but a combination of the two.

If you are a nerd like me, you might enjoy a more technical and research heavy book on bees such as The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism or Honeybee Democrbees such as The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism or Honeybee DemocrBees: Biology of a Superorganism or Honeybee Democracy.

And while specific pheromones are known to trigger specific responses in animals from bees to squid, scientists have yet to isolate them in humans, and according to Smithsonian Magazine, a review of scientific literature on the study of pheromones «found that most research on the topic was subject to major design flaws.»

March 7, 2013 • Feeding on flowers with caffeinated nectars gives bees a memory boost, new research shows.

As Gigi Luk knows, based on her own experience speaking many languages, as well as her ongoing research on children at the Brain.Experience.Education (BEE) lab at the Ed School, bilingualism shapes our brains for life.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

St Bees Island has also been the research point for Central Queensland University and University of Queensland who have been investigating the population of wild koalas on the island.

Born in St Bees in 1982, Jessica moved to Scotland to study sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2000, going on to do an MFA before completing a practice - led PhD in sculpture in 2013 funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Last September, the International Union for Conservation of Nature updated a 2015 report on neonicotinoids, which said a review of more than 1,110 peer - reviewed research studies showed there was no doubt that flying through chemical - laden clouds of dust from neonic - treated farm fields is killing bees.

Through continuous research, scientific innovation, and a focus on applicable solutions, Beeologics is developing a line of products to specifically address the long - term well being of the bees.»

Free from parabens, sodium lauryl sulfate, and synthetic fragrances — and never tested on animals — this luster - boosting duo is out to save the bees, as well, with a portion of their profits going to research and conservation efforts.

Using funding designed to support basic research with no foreseeable applications, the Georgia tech systems engineers teamed up with the Cornell bee guys, and they came up with a mathematical model that described how the bees distributed themselves among the resources - patches of flowers that varied based on the time of day, weather and seasons.

When I posted on new research linking neonicotinoid pesticides to bee deaths, I noted that bee numbers improved after bans on these insecticides in France and Germany.

The Pollinator Partnership (and other similar organizations) focus on preserving the world's bee population by conservations, education, and research.

Research on neonicotinoids» impact on bees is underway.