Sentences with phrase «wild bee crop»

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Of the hundred principal crops that make up most of the world's food supply, only 15 percent are pollinated by domestic bees (mostly honey bees, bumble bees and alfalfa leafcutter bees), while at least 80 percent are pollinated by wild bees and other wildlife (as there are an estimated 25 000 bee species, the total number of pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 species).

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If there were no more bees, 75 % of all economic plants, fruits and vegetables, 90 % of all wild plants and all forage crops would be affected.

Insects, especially bees, help pollinate both food crops and wild plants.

Jim Cane, an entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bee Biology and Systematics Lab in Utah, is working on ways that wild bees could replace honeybees on some crops, rather than merely supplementing them.

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.

Both computer modelling and observation suggest that these crops are fully pollinated by wild bees.

According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than 85 percent of flowering plants and 75 percent of agricultural crops worldwide.

In contrast, on conventional monoculture farms with large swaths of a single crop the wild bees barely made a dent.

«If exposure to low levels of pesticide affects their ability to learn, bees may struggle to collect food and impair the essential pollination services they provide to both crops and wild plants.»

So far studies suggest that restoring wild habitat near farms to welcome and nurture native bees not only increases crop yield but also makes honeybees themselves more efficient pollinators.

Bees and other insects pollinate many of the world's important food crops and wild plants, raising serious concerns about the impacts of reported global pollinator declines for food security and biodiversity.

Like honey bees, wild bees pollinate crops, but there is no way to effectively manage them so they can be shipped to a site, like honeybees are, to pollinate a specific crop, such as almond trees in central California.

In the wild, honeybees get different nutrients from different types of plants, but industrial agriculture limits bees to monoculture crops.

Dropping populations of wild bees in agricultural areas could affect crop pollination and result in higher costs for farmers, researchers report December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rachael Winfree, an associate professor of entomology at Rutgers University in New Jersey, studied 23 small New Jersey and Pennsylvania watermelon farms and found that wild, native bees were depositing 62 percent of the pollen on the crops.

Sasha Harris - Lovett, LA Times Wild bees pollinate many crops, but some bees are busier than others.

Major current projects include 1) Evaluating pesticide exposure and risk to wild bees and managed honey bees in different landscapes, 2) Combining empirical data with network modeling to understand pathogen transmission in complex plant - pollinator networks, and 3) Understanding how pesticide and pathogen stress influence bee behavior and delivery of pollination services to agriculturally important crops.

Wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.) have also suffered serious declines and circumstantial evidence suggests that pathogen «spillover» from commercially reared bumble bees, which are used extensively to pollinate greenhouse crops, is a possible cause.

Wild bees play an important role in pollinating many US crops and plants.

Farmers growing crops from apples to zucchini have long relied on wild pollinators — including various bee species, birds and bats — to fertilize plants and increase yields.