Sentences with phrase «which worker bees»

A widespread and poorly understood cause of die - off is called colony collapse disorder (CCD), marked by unusually high bee losses (up to 90 percent per hive) in which worker bees vanish.

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IF that same person was in tier 6 with all the worker bees, after four years they would walk away with $ 24000, which represents a return of their 6 % contribution, plus interest.

Instead worker bees guard the entrances of these chambers, which often allows the beetles enough time to mate and produce their hive - trashing larvae.

The worker bee then adds fatty acids from glands in her mouthparts, which take the pH to around 4.

It would be useful, for example, to compare the brains of social worker bees, which process vast quantities of visual information as they fly from flower to flower, with those of parasitic wasps.

In the Cape bee, female worker bees are able to reproduce asexually: they lay eggs that are essentially fertilised by their own DNA, which develop into new worker bees.

Nurse bees feed larvae destined to be workers not only royal jelly, which queen - destined larvae are fed, but also beebread, or processed pollen (seen here).

A closer look at how honey bee colonies determine which larvae will serve as workers and which will become queens reveals that a plant chemical, p - coumaric acid, plays a key role in the bees» developmental fate.

Team leader Martin Bencsik has previously used sensors known as accelerometers to capture a distinct change in bee sounds before the phenomenon known as swarming, which is when the queen quits the hive, taking many of the worker bees with her.

After a long day buzzing between flowers, even the most industrious worker bee could use a little help remembering which ones she wants to return to the next day.

A larva that is destined to become a queen is fed large amounts of something called «royal jelly» that causes the growing queen to develop differently than the worker bees, which are fed «worker jelly.»

Natural selection should eliminate such behaviors, yet there are many examples (alarm calling in squirrels, helpers at the nest in scrub jays, sterile worker castes in honey bees etc.) in which animals appear to cooperate despite an apparent disadvantage to the donor.

It remains to be seen whether Conrad has held on to the most recent plot idea, which sees Mitty as a weak - willed big box store worker bee looking for his chance to be something more.

As a former queen begins to fail (i.e. ceases to lay eggs due to age or illness), workers will make special, larger queen cells in which nurse bees raise queen larvae, feeding them a special substance called royal jelly.

Two studies in Science found that pesticides which first came into use in the 1990s, known as neonicotinoids, have resulted in bee hives losing their queens while worker bees seeing a loss in their ability to navigate, until eventually they would become lost to the hive.

Colony collapse disorder (CCD), in which colonies inexplicably lose all of their worker bees, has been blamed for the loss of 50 - 90 percent of colonies in beekeeping operations across the U.S.