Sentences with phrase «wild bees collected»
Both of these pathogens showed up in wild bees collected randomly at 26 sites around Great Britain.
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Scientists from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Calgary, Canada, studied the flights of bumble bees as they collected nectar from wild tall larkspur flowers in Alberta, Canada.
Orchid bees were best at dealing with 35 % solutions, which is exactly the sugar concentration of nectar that the animals collect in the wild, whereas lapping species, such as honeybees, prefer more syrupy nectar, with a sugar concentration of around 55 %, Borrell reports online this week in Biology Letters.
«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.»