Sentences with phrase «wild bee colonies»
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These are tough times for bees, both in the wild and in colonies that commercial beekeepers and farmers manage.
Neonicotinoids harm domesticated and wild bees, but leave healthier honey bee colonies unaffected
«We also wanted to look at both managed honey bee colonies and «wild» ones, to see if that made a difference — and it did,» says David Tarpy, a professor of entomology at NC State and corresponding author on the paper.
As colony collapse disorder and other maladies continue to devastate honeybee populations, researchers are turning their attention to alternative pollinators — the thousands of native bee species throughout the country — and are looking for ways to make croplands more attractive to these wild bees.
Wild bees could become more important because of the decline in numbers of honey bees due to colony collapse disorder, which has resulted in the loss of more than 10 million hives in the past decade.
«These associations support the hypothesis that Nosema escaped into wild populations from heavily infected commercial colonies, at least during the earlier years of bumble bee domestication in the U.S.,» she said.
The evidence against neonicotinoids now exists in key bee brain cells involved in learning and memory, in whole bees, entire colonies and now at the level of whole populations of wild bees.
The researchers believe that the scale of wild bee decline will push farmers to rely even more heavily on commercial honey bee operators who travel across the US, hiring out colonies for pollination.
In 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an assessment of the state of honey and wild bees across the US, in the face of an increasing number of threats such as colony collapse disorder.
While they are important, other research has suggested using wild bees — those that are solitary cavity - or soil - nesting insects — as opposed to large colonies of honey bees, can result in successful pollination as well.