Sentences with phrase «using nectar from flowers»

About — Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers.

Raw honey is unfiltered, unprocessed pure honey that is produced from bees using nectar from flowers.

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Today we're using Manuka Honey (I used Comvita's Manuka Honey), which comes from the nectar of the Mānuka bush, a flower indigenous to New Zealand.

Using high - speed cameras focused on bats trained to obtain nectar from artificial «test tube» flowers containing honey water in the lab, the researchers» video captured bats hovering in short flights (rarely lasting a second) over the feeders.

Specialized nectar - feeding bats typically siphon nectar from flowers using extremely long, protruding tongues sprinkled with hair - like papillae.

The birds use their beaks as tools to crack open the hard and woody outer coverings of seeds, pry insects from twigs, and sip nectar from cactus flowers.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the previously undiscovered technology employed by the bat Glossophaga soricina: a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair - like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower.

Just last month, for example, a team reported that bumblebees may use electrical fields to identify flowers recently visited by other insects from those that may still hold lucrative stores of nectar and pollen.

A hawk moth (Manduca sexta) uses its eight - centimeter - long proboscis to drink nectar from a flower of Nicotiana alata, a species of wild tobacco also called jasmine or winged tobacco.

Adults may drink the nectar of composite flowers (sunflower family), using a long tube called a proboscis that extends from the underside of the head.