Sentences with phrase «taken by the bees»

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The instructor will take participants through a step - by - step process of understanding the life and work ethic of the most amazing human food producer: the honey bee!

A bee swarm is when a colony «reproduces» itself by, in this case, splitting in half and taking the queen to find a new home, leaving behind the other half of the colony, along with a new queen in the making.

Weeding, creating beds, planting seeds and taking care of the worms, compost and bees are all chores done by our students.

In addition to a two - week, intensive orientation led by experts at the Brookings Institution, fellows receive two two complementary BEE courses (residential courses not included) taken within the year of the Fellowship's completion.

Additional experiments showed that bees that learned faster (shown by taking fewer landings to find the right flowers) also had a higher density of synaptic complexes in the visual association area.

In one of the first studies of its type, scientists found that the way in which plants arrange their flowers affects the flight patterns taken by foraging bees.

Instead, he was taken aback by the sixfold increase in the growth rate of crops that depend on domesticated bees for pollination.

Greco and Neumann report in Nature Precedings that they were able to witness the entire battle between the bees and beetles play out in high - resolution 3 - D by using a «micro CT» scanner that took snapshots of a stingless bee hive every five minutes for an hour and a half.

The scientists begin by assuming that particles with lower energies take longer to travel through turbulent magnetic fields, much like a lazy moth takes longer to cross a windy valley than a quick bee.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

«The big take - home message from scientific research is that our biggest single health issue in beekeeping can be mitigated by using stocks of bees bred for resistance to a parasite.

Figuring out that the bees were using plastics in place of natural materials took some detective work by U of G's Andrew Moore, supervisor of analytical microscopy at Laboratory Services.

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].

It doesn't matter if you're suffering from an asthma attack or allergies, rest assured that by simply taking bee pollen orally, your sinus problems would be resolved.

this article is very helpful in knowing the benefits of certain fruits and herb and vegetable that we take for granted, it also helps us to know the healing process is always through the right food and not pharmacuticals, because i have been going to the philopinnes every year for a eight week holiday for almost nineteen years and my doctor kept insisting that i take malaria tablets for the mosquito's so about eight years ago i looked at what food the local people consumed that keeps the mosquito's away, and found that many of them eat a kind of vegatable called a bitter melon or gourd which is called karela in india, from the ampaylaya bush and it contains massive amounts of varying types of vitamin b so i started to eat a lot of it uncooked with a morning and evening salad, over the next month i noticed that was not beeing bitten by any insects, so i concluded that my body ferrymones and general odour had changed and acted as a reppelant, but it would only stay that way as long as i used very little deoderant.i also felt a lot better because most malaria tablets contain too much quinine and that can only do you a lot of harm.

She may be over assessed by a mysterious blogger, portrayed as intelligent but haughty, shallow, and scheming, yet she surely knows what it takes to be a queen bee.

Now I have never been stung by a wasp so I will take my bee stings!

The picture addresses the ways in which an ordinary working - class family, poleaxed by the arbitrariness of their orphaning (the father has died from an allergic reaction to a bee sting), takes on the burden of grief and regret in the wake of intolerable loss.

The Secret Life of Bees (PG - 13 for violence and mature themes) Dakota Fanning stars in this Southern saga, set in the Sixties at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, about a motherless teen who runs away with her surrogate mom (Jennifer Hudson) from her abusive father (Paul Bettany) to a tiny South Carolina town where they are taken in by an eccentric trio of beekeeping sisters (Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys).

Taking the step from social enterprise project to sustainable social business requires drive, ambition and commitment, but when it works it really pays off - something Launceston Primary in Cornwall found out this year when their pupils set up Just Beez [www.justbeez.org], a social enterprise developed and run by the school's year 6 pupils to help address the plight of the British bee population.

Busy Bees Training was one of only 40 recipients, including Barclays and Waitrose, to be presented with the award by HRH The Princess Royal at a ceremony which took place at St James's Palace on 2 November 2017.

They are taken in by three black, bee - keeping sisters, May, June, and August, and Lily is consumed by their secret world of bees and honey, and of the Black Madonna who presides over this household of strong, wise women.

She emphasizes his level of understanding by referring to the chapter on the bee and the dandelion, in which the dandelion scent attracts the insect and turns it into a carrier of spores, taking them beyond the horizon.

In her series The Masked Ball, Canadian artist Aganetha Dyck takes broken porcelain sculptures of 17th century characters and fixes them by collaborating with bees — yes, bees — to coat them in a protective layer of honeycomb.

Huyghe has ventured on a science vessel to Antarctica in search of an uncharted island and its albino penguin, directed a shot - by - shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954), planted a temporary (and very unusual) garden in Madrid, filmed a documentary about the early New York hip - hop scene, invented holidays, created a weather - generating machine, taken students on vacation, and used bees, dogs, ants, spiders, and an art dealer infected with the flu as living readymades.

The phenomenon started by four San Francisco women beat out «upcycling» (the big brother of «recycling») and «colony collapse disorder» (affecting bee populations worldwide this year), among others, to take the top prize and win inclusion in our cultural lexicon.

The findings, which have taken more than three years to be published, add weight to concern that a new group of insecticides called neonicotinoids are behind a worldwide decline in honey bees, along with habitat and food loss, by making them more susceptible to disease.

Another interesting thing I was told by one of my drivers, who also happens to be a bee keeper, is that right after the US bombing took place, the quality and quantity of the honey production by his bees increased dramatically.

The fact that Bitcoin is becoming one of those big assets can generally be seen as a sign that the world's first and largest cryptocurrency (in terms of market capitalization) has finally passed the border into beeing taken for serious by the global finance markets.