The North American pink lady's slipper orchid flowers during the springtime flight of the queen bumblebee. |
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Flowers are pollinated mainly by an anthophorid bee, Ptilothrix bombiformis Cresson, and by a bumblebee, Bombus pennsylvanicus DeGeer. |
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Sarah's dad was already getting bumblebee socks for Christmas, but now he was also to receive a terracotta dunny. |
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The single Penstemon strictus plant observed by Williams and Thomson received bumblebee visits every few minutes. |
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There were more cries, and then a faint sound like a bumblebee, but lower, and growing louder as if approaching. |
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Again, a comparison with the highly social bumblebee invalidates this argument. |
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The yellow bumblebee, which used to be widespread, is now confined to the flower-rich meadows of the machair in the Hebrides. |
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When a bumblebee finds a nectar-rich flower, it tags the blossom with a scent mark, identifying the flower as being worth a return visit. |
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The world's smallest mammal, the bumblebee bat, is found exclusively in a small number of karst caves in Thailand. |
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Both flight patterns are accompanied by high squeaky notes, and the bird's wings hum like an angry bumblebee. |
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Goulson and his colleagues exposed developing bumblebee colonies to a neonicotinoid called imidacloprid in doses comparable to what they might find in the wild. |
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On the way down, I see a red-tailed bumblebee flitting between the bluebells, gathering pollen on its tiny tibia with the focus of a craftsman. |
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Pricing the past The last laugh ReprintsThe return of the short-haired bumblebee would be a small piece of good news amid much bee-related gloom. |
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When it flies, the small wings beat very fast to lift the plump body, and the bird zigzags low over the water like an oversized bumblebee. |
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Having captured a bumblebee in a jar, he wanted to hurry home and show his mom, but he tripped and cut open his left hand. |
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Opening the window to let out a huge bumblebee, the car accidentally swerved into an oncoming car. |
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Like the helicopter and the bumblebee scientifically this plane should not be able to fly, yet id does and it flies well. |
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The accompanying, which evokes a rocky bumblebee extracts of the stomach of the earth. |
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On the other hand, a single specimen will usually mix well with small, sturdy, low-salinity brackish water fish including bumblebee gobies, orange chromides, and glassfish. |
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Parting the glossy leaves I discovered a buff-tailed bumblebee ensnared in an orb web. |
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When your correspondent was a young aeronautics student, an elderly professor once told him, in all seeming seriousness, that it was impossible for a bumblebee to fly. |
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Making the caterpillar and bumblebee First cut patterns and felt following directions for ladybug and fly. |
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Forty-eight survived the journey, and their offspring are flourishing on South Island today. One of the deported species, the short-haired bumblebee, has died out in Britain. |
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Among them, the bumblebee is a particularly important advanced indicator, since it is one of the least vulnerable to one-off weather disturbances. |
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The focus is on six key signs, sightings of bumblebee, seven-spot ladybird, frogspawn, peacock butterfly, hawthorn and swift. |
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The bumblebee evolved along with wild blueberries. |
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The species are bumblebee, frogspawn, seven-spot ladybird, peacock butterfly, hawthorn flowering and swift arriving. |
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The honeybee will fly around 17 or 18 C, while the bumblebee will fly around 13 or 14 degrees. Which temperatures are we more likely to get in the Maritimes? |
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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 best source of outside motion is a sonicating bee, such as a bumblebee, or the original wild halictid pollinator. |
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All that is known is that Igutsaq was said to be a very big bumblebee. |
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Water is the key ingredient to survival of every living thing on earth, from the smallest plants to the largest fish to every dog, cat, bumblebee, grain of wheat and human being. |
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We have already spotted other very rare species in the area, including the ruderal bumblebee and the redshanked carder bee. |
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Think shades of burnt orange, flame or amber for a bumblebee colourway. |
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He can perform The Flight of the Bumblebee on the tambourine, peppers Stephen Hawking with letters, and has the part of Yorick in the school production of Hamlet. |
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Bumblebee queens are sometimes present in orchards, but not usually in enough quantity to be significant pollinators. |
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Jo Josh, who is heading a project called Beeline for the Bumblebee Working Group, said 25 per cent of the country's 254 bee species were on a threatened or endangered list. |
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