Sentences with phrase «visited by the bees»

The San Francisco State University researcher wanted to study flower visits by bees, given the effects of climate shifts and the destructive illness called colony collapse disorder.

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.

To ensure flowers had not been visited by bees, he placed bags over them before they bloomed and then picked them once they matured and opened.

Not exact matches

The iconic white and pink mountain wildflower is visited primarily by native bees collecting nectar and / or pollen.

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

By capturing bees as they visit plants and then sampling the pollen they carry, she has confirmed in unpublished work that they get much of their food from introduced plants.

Bees seem to know how far they must fly to get to sources of food that they have visited before, and some scientists have argued that bees measure distance by evaluating the energy they have used in flying thBees seem to know how far they must fly to get to sources of food that they have visited before, and some scientists have argued that bees measure distance by evaluating the energy they have used in flying thbees measure distance by evaluating the energy they have used in flying there.

The results also reveal that efficient routes develop by parallel improvements of both the order feeders were visited and the actual movements of bees flying between them.

But those same chemical defenses can reduce the number of visits to the plant by pollinators such as bees, resulting in less pollination of individual plants and decreased growth.

When they looked at the flowers visited by the alpine bumblebee species, they found that the bees» favorite flowers had not shifted to a shallower form, but were less prolific.

Dr Vallejo - Marin added: «Surprisingly, visits by smaller bees were associated with more seeds being produced, indicating that more pollen does not necessarily create more seeds.

After just 11 generations, they found that the plants visited by bumblebees were taller, twice as fragrant, and reflected more UV light — a visual signal for bees.

The identification of safe sites is restricted to the description of patches of pollen grains remaining after the bees» grooming behaviour following pollen deposition by pollen - sacs during flower visits.

Field observations of flower - visiting bees (Apis mellifera, different species of Bombus and other genera) at mainly species of Orobanchaceae and Fabaceae have demonstrated that after pollen accumulation on the bees» bodies by the pollen - sacs) and subsequent grooming, residual patches of pollen patches remain in specific areas of the bees» body, mainly on the dorsal and ventral midline of the head, thorax and abdomen [31 — 42].

On average, only 2 % of wild bee species were responsible for 80 % of the pollination visits witnessed by researchers around the world, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

Inspired by Big Draw 2016, STEAM asked visiting pupils to design and build a functional bee hotel that could help promote the welfare and population of bees.

Rowling can remember telling stories from early on and writing down her first story when she was 5 or 6 years old - about a rabbit called Rabbit who got the measles and was visited by friends including a giant bee called Miss Bee.

Stroll the pathways between them, watching out for iguanas below and coati in the palm trees above, to visit the Kinan spa — which was built in alignment with the energy flow of the stars — for treatments which use honey made at the Maroma by local bees.

Travel bush tracks to visit a honey farm featuring honey collected by Ligurian bees followed by a Eucalyptus distillery and display.

Interview recently met with Cianciolo at her Fort Greene home for a studio visit, conducted over spiced tea and honey made by bees living on the roof of the Whitney Museum.