Sentences with phrase «wild bees»

Also reported this week, a team of British scientists similarly builds on earlier work in wild bees.

Unfortunately the numbers of wild bees available in the areas in which they are grown have declined.

But a new computer model shows that wild bee populations are declining in many agricultural areas.

But not all altered landscapes are equal for bees: modern agriculture has taken a severe toll on wild bee numbers.

The best way to track this would be by looking at colony losses over time or wild bee numbers, but that data isn't available going back very far.

To map the abundance of wild bees across the country, this model combines a number of databases with expert opinion.

And when wild bees are affected, scientists worry that they will no longer play the role of genetic insurance policy.

The creation of the sculpture was informed by the artist's frightening childhood memory of disturbing a nest of wild bees during a family hike.

In the areas that have seen the most serious reduction in wild bees, there have been 200 % increases in the amount of corn planted.

Researchers have found that flowers are a hot spot of transmission of bacteria that end up in the microbiome of wild bees.

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.

«These chemicals do have serious implications for wild bee populations in agricultural landscapes but some, notably from the agrochemical industry, still promote their use,» Dr Whitehorn warns.

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

Honey hunters gathered honey from wild bee colonies in the large forest that surrounds Nuremberg (old drawing of honey hunters).

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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Researchers have estimated the value of wild bee crop pollination in the U.S. at $ 3.1 billion a year; honeybee pollination is worth roughly $ 15 billion.

The team of researchers collected and identified wild bees at all 37 field sites, experimentally measured the bees» pollination services and carried out complex statistical analyses based on the collected data.

And given that wild bees help pollinate many crops, «we play with these things at our peril,» Kerr says.

While wild bees don't get the same amount of attention as honey bees or bumblebees, they are a critical piece of the pollination puzzle.

«Neonic pesticides threaten wild bees» spring breeding, study finds.»

«At this point, it is no longer credible to argue that agricultural use of neonicotinoids does not harm wild bees,» says this bee expert who was not involved in the new study.

So researchers from North Carolina State University recently set out to see just how much heat local wild bees could handle.

THE LATEST BUZZ Wild bees like this common bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) help pollinate food crops across the United States.

«Climate change has had a notable impact upon the distribution of many wild bees, with several species such as the newly - arrived Tree Bumblebee migrating north in the past 20 years as the climate has started to warm,» says the report, titled «The Decline of England's Bees.»

That hypothesis — that a newly arrived N. bombi strain from Europe caused the bumble bee declines — was an educated guess, since wild bees and commercial bees suffered devastating losses linked to N. bombi infections at about the same time, in the early 1990s, Cameron said.

Infected honeybees can leave traces of disease, like a fungal spore or virus particle, on the flowers that they visit and these may then infect wild bees.»

I say we all dig up our lawns and sow wild bee - friendly flowers.

He was also a visiting research fellow at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, visiting in 1998 to study pollinator ecology, which included different species of bees and hoverflies, and again in 2003 to study wild bee ecology.

A promising study published last autumn by ecologists Sarah Greenleaf of the University of California at Davis and Claire Kremen of the University of California at Berkeley found that the presence of wild bees increases the efficiency of sunflower pollination fivefold.

If so, farmers may have to embrace a change in strategy and encourage the assistance of alternative pollinators like solitary wild bees and bumblebees.

Both of these pathogens showed up in wild bees collected randomly at 26 sites around Great Britain.

«Climate change can also disrupt the timing of plant flowering or bee emergence, resulting in wild bees emerging before or after ample forage is available,» it adds.

Part of this will involve extensive breeding programs (which work better in desert regions than in jungles, where there are lots of wild bees messing up the gene pool) and part will involve educating beekeepers and fighting a stereotype that African bees are always bad and European ones good.

To help answer the question, scientists have created an inexpensive, nationwide wild bee monitoring program

The logs were prepared in the manner of local Masai tribespeople, who tend wild bees for honey.

(Bee diversity matters: a study in 1993 showed that wild bees specialize in pollinating the base of the flower, while honey bees prefer the top.

Because the bulk of Michigan's blueberries are grown on large farms, Isaacs estimated that wild bees provide just 12 percent of the state's blueberry pollination.

Isaacs discovered that in small fields of less than an acre, wild bees took care of 82 percent of pollination.

A few years ago Isaacs, like Kremen, decided to find out how much wild bees contribute to blueberry pollination.

In big fields — 1.5 to 16 acres — wild bees accomplished only 11 percent of pollination.

If we can't meet our pollination needs with honey bees, we need to better understand wild bees.»

Ecologist Taylor Ricketts of the University of Vermont in Burlington and colleagues used land - use databases and input from bee experts to create a map of where wild bees were more and less abundant in the United States from 2008 to 2013.

Areas with the lowest relative wild bee abundance were those

The N. bombi - related declines in wild bees occurred shortly after many commercial bumble bee operations collapsed as a result of N. bombi infections, Cameron said.

Dr Matthias Fürst and Professor Mark Brown from Royal Holloway University of London (who worked in collaboration with Dr Dino McMahon and Professor Robert Paxton at Queen's University Belfast, and Professor Juliet Osborne working at Rothamsted Research and the University of Exeter) say the research provides vital information for beekeepers across the world to ensure honeybee management supports wild bee populations.

«Ninety percent of these farms would be okay because wild bees serve as a backup plan from the ecosystem.»

Research now suggests that bees brought in to pollinate greenhouses could escape and infect nearby wild bees.