Sentences with phrase «young bees»
The phrase "young bees" refers to bees that are not yet grown up. They are in the early stages of their life and are still developing. Full definition
Since 1993 Marla Spivak, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota, has been breeding a strain of honeybee that can smell the rotting odor of American foulbrood, a bacterial infection, as well as the yeasty whiff of chalkbrood, a fungal disease; they can also detect parasitic varroa mite infestations in young bee pupae.
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So entomologist Gene Robinson and colleagues at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, suspected that the clock gene period might kick in to help as young bees matured.
Amdam removed young bees from their hives, which tricked the older bees into returning to their caretaker posts.
The supportive bacteria, Fructobacillus, may help bee microbes settle snugly in young bee guts.
Younger bees get to hang out with the honey, while older ones must fly out and forage for nectar.
Time means little to young bees lolling around the hive.
colony collapse disorder A phenomenon that occurs when most worker bees abandon a hive, leaving the queen and young bees alone.
Bee pollen is the food used to nourish young bees and contains 40 % protein.
They were performing exactly as well as young bees,» Amdam says.
The paper demonstrates that neonicotinoids and glyphosate adversely affect memory, taste and smell in young bees — the very senses and skills required by worker bees for nectar foraging.
As Dave Hackenburg, who runs an industrial pollination services company in Pennsylvania, says, «If you start shortening lives of bees, just by a few days, young bees have to go to the field earlier, and the whole thing gets messed up.»
They scrape off loose pollen, mix it with honey, and form it into a granule that feeds the young bee.
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The idea is that the young bees carry enough of the worker's genes to compensate for its own lack of reproduction.
When the young bees were isolated so they could not associate with and touch older bees, the level of period mRNA ramped up twice as fast as normal..
Even in darkness, the older, foraging bees had twice as much period mRNA as the younger bees.
Both chemicals had a negative effect on the young bees» olfactory learning, and reduced sucrose responsiveness or sense of taste.
Further inspection finds that the young bees of the colony, who should be plump, pearly - white larvae, have melted into a puddle of brownish goo at the bottom of their cells.
This should be done in the summer after the young bees have emerged.
Bee pollen is pollen that helps feed the hive's younger bees.
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld (Comedian, «Seinfeld»), who also contributes some of his trademark witticisms in the script, stars as Barry, a young bee on the verge of adulthood who leaves his Central Park hive because he can't quite see any value in working as a drone the rest of his days.
Bee Movie tells the story of Barry B. Benson (voiced by Jerry Seinfeld), a young bee who has just graduated from college and is about to embark on his career.