| There were just tons of bumblebees out there this spring, when the honeybees were in the hives because it was too cold. |
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| Honeybees, bumblebees, various flies and beetles, and the hummingbird clearwing frequent milkweeds too. |
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| Enclosing bumblebees permits us to control the pollen parent, as well as the female parent. |
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| Along with my collaborators, I have experimentally investigated that cost in bumblebees. |
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| Both species bloom during mid summer to early fall, and are pollinated by either hummingbirds or bumblebees. |
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| Mature plants of A.fistulosum flower in spring, attracting myriads of bumblebees and other pollinating insects. |
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| The harmonic radar has been used before to track the flights of bumblebees and honeybees. |
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| Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees into thinking the plants harbor nectar. |
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| The mites don't affect other bee pollinators, such as bumblebees and leaf-cutting bees. |
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| A restaurant's courtyard in Oaxaca is covered with a lavender-flowering vine, attracting bumblebees and small birds. |
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| We've had early sightings of bumblebees in people's gardens because they are no longer hibernating throughout the winter. |
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| As I came around for a second time with the mower, there was this fog of bumblebees. |
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| However, one of the issues that has not been addressed in the debate is the reality of a substantial trade in commercial bumblebees. |
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| Unlike honeybees, however, bumblebees do not leave their stings behind. |
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| First, the bumblebees would carry the agent only to the most vulnerable parts of the plant. |
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| And the bumblebees would certainly approve, because they like healthy plants at least as much as the greenhouse growers do. |
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| Every greenhouse tomato in Canada is now pollinated by bumblebees that have been bred specifically for the purposes of aiding in pollination. |
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| The bumblebees will be out there foraging in the morning, even when it's cool. |
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| Three-quarters of agricultural crops depend to some extent on pollination, mainly by honeybees or other animals such as bats and bumblebees. |
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| It specialises in biological pollination by bumblebees and in pest control via beneficial insects and mites. |
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| These include the native leafcutting bees, the digger bees, bumblebees and some of the sweat bees. |
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| The bumblebees are our best pollinizator and in the years of greater blooming, we buy bumblebee hives to give a hand to natural pollinizators. |
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| Each hive contains a small cup with pollen to keep the bumblebees fit during transport and storage. |
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| It lunges at anything small enough to eat that passes in front of its nose, mostly grasshoppers, but also bumblebees, moths, and sometimes its own young. |
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| An abundance of parasites, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, tapeworms, and the larvae of flies, wasps, and moths, are known to infect bumblebees. |
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| Composite flowers offer some of the best floral rewards, and pollinators have taken notice: bumblebees, syrphid flies, honeybees. |
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| Reintroduction has been mooted before, but bees are prone to lethal jet-lag and long-tongued bumblebees are hard to breed in captivity. |
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| Now the BBC's Springwatch survey reveals where the first bumblebees, seven-spot ladybirds, peacock butterflies, swifts, frogspawn and hawthorn have been spotted. |
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| Research into using bumblebees for greenhouse pollination began in 1966, but as recently as ten years ago, greenhouse pollination was still mainly done by hand. |
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| We are all familiar with butterflies, bumblebees and honey bees, but if we take a closer look at some of the flowers, we will often discover much more. |
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| Insect prey includes chafers, dung and ground beetles, caterpillars, leatherjackets, and the nests of wasps and bumblebees. |
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| They attract bumblebees, sweat bees and syrphid flies. |
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| The songs, by the Pet Shop Boys, are lame, but the launch pad at the flying competition is a giggle, with flailing rocket-men and giant bumblebees taking tumbles while the fez-topped MC crows into a loudhailer. |
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| The fields of the North Pennines were cut for hay a while ago, but these grassy strips hold late-flowering plants – knapweed, scabious, betony – with nectar for bumblebees and butterflies. |
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| The bumblebee observatory relies on a participatory science system: GAE will provide tally sheets enabling everyone to count bumblebees and online tools to record their observations. |
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| The bumblebees wouldn't care, and their extra labour might help the many greenhouse growers who use these peaceful little creatures to pollinate their crops. |
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| Somewhere I can walk through moist grass, look for four-leaf clovers, smell and pick wildflowers, watch bumblebees and butterflies, and test a buttercup under my chin. |
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| The British Entomological Society is surveying bumblebees, cinnabar moths, and glow-worms. |
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| Squeeze bag to pipe stripes on each gumdrop body to resemble bumblebees. |
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| For those who like to think of bumblebees as the gentle cousins to other, more waspish varieties, the news of their criminal behaviour may come as a disappointment. |
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| Perhaps we already know that coexistence is impossible, that we can regulate neither the flight of the bumblebees nor the direction or strength of the wind and that planting GMOs is irreversible? |
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| Every time you speak to people in Arab countries about biocontrol and bumblebees, the first thing they say is that it fits with their culture and religion. |
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| The researchers who posed this question realized that bumblebees might make an ideal airborne delivery system for the microbial agents used in controlling greenhouse pests. |
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| While commercially reared bumblebees may one day be used for wild blueberry pollination, the cost of using domesticated bumble bees for wild blueberry pollination is presently prohibitive. |
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| Cucumbers may also be pollinated by bumblebees and several other bee species. |
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| Bluebell flowers are rich in pollen and nectar, and are chiefly pollinated by bumblebees, although they are also visited by various other insects. |
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| The value of uncropped field margins for foraging bumblebees. |
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| Bumblebees hugged the ground, water spiders skitted on temporary ponds, rivulets gushed from the moors and grouse kept an educated distance. |
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