Sentences with phrase «ultragreen sweat bee»

Bees were the culprits again — sweat bees, honey bees, bumble bees, and fruit cutter bees.

«This diverse range of habitat provides excellent conditions for native sweat bees,» explains Professor Robert Paxton from the Institute of Biology at MLU, where Paxton and PhD student Patricia Landaverde - González have studied 37 sites on Yucatán.

There appears to be no direct, negative impact of moderate farming on populations of native sweat bees, the major pollinators of chilli.

«Sweat bees on hot chillies: Native bees thrive in traditional farming, securing good yield.»

They found very little overlap between prey and pollinator — checkered beetles and sweat bees, for example, were almost never eaten.

The air is full of sweat bees, lapping up precious moisture from exposed skin.

In the pantheon of social insects, sweat bees (Megalopta genalis) have a lowly position.

It also suggests dominance drives differences in brain size in sweat bees.

Sean O'Donnell of the University of Washington, Seattle, who works on brain development in social insects, including sweat bees, says this is the first time that it has been shown that participation in a social group is associated with augmented brain development.

William Wcislo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, and his colleagues dissected the brains of sweat bee queens, workers and asocial individuals and measured the size of an area called the mushroom bodies.

It turned out that the bees with a low heat tolerance in the lab, including bumblebees and sweat bees, were less abundant in hotter areas.

One of the things I learned while working there was to be able to sit for hours — even while attacked by sweat bees — and watch as behavior unfolded, sometimes very slowly.

Not exact matches

He points to data showing that plants from treated seeds can «sweat out» minute quantities of the insecticide into morning dew, a beverage popular with bees.