" The authors of a guide to North American bumblebees begin their volume with the sentence: "Everyone likes bumblebees.
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Other factors could be diseases spread by invasive bumblebees, and climate change which may be harming plants that bumblebees depend on and may also forcing them into new ranges.
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Researchers believe disease may be spreading to wild bumblebees from commercial bumblebees used in greenhouses that forage outside for nectar and could be transmitting pathogens through the flowers they visit.
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Each must be fertilized by bumblebees carrying the pollen from the other, which I imagine keeps bumblebees employed all spring, and also explains why partridgeberry is rare in our local woodlands.
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Bumblebees' decline points to mass extinction – study, The Guardian reports.
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But the flowers attracted honeybees, yellow jacket wasps and bumblebees.
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Step one: Gently suck up the bumblebees with a special vacuum.
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Bumblebees are great at flying on Earth, but not on Mars.
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Bumblebees, mining bees, and more than 100 other kinds pollinate blueberries.
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Bumblebees are the only bees that live in the high Arctic.
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Impact your world Though bumblebees be but little, they are fierce.
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Bumblebees pollinate plants such as cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, blueberries and melon.
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Previous studies have shown that bumblebees are capable of complex tasks.
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Bumblebees are set to receive new protections from the federal government.
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Rusty-patched bumblebees were named after their reddish patches on their bellies.
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Bumblebees couldn't care less if you're a member of the royal family.
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But efforts to protect rusty patched bumblebees had been underway for years.
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On a good day, Mr. English's mind is gaily swarming with bumblebees.
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Honey bees, as well as bumblebees and solitary bees pollinate their bushes.
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Since tomatoes need vibration to release their pollen, bumblebees are ideal pollinators.
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The wasps and native bumblebees are gloriously busy in all of them.
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Bumblebees serve a queen, which is buried in a den beneath the ground.
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Now, the new research suggests that bumblebees in the wild are suffering, too.
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If we can't save the bumblebees it won't be worth striving for Mars.
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Crowds are dangerous: parasites are found more heavily on bumblebees in urban areas.
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Bumblebees are particularly important to agriculture, but agriculture is often unkind to them.
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Kanye is trying his best to avoid the bumblebees that pollinate the tomato plants.
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Their owners give them names or cover them in decals of ladybugs or bumblebees.
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"There are limits on how much we can extrapolate to other bumblebees," he said.
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Most people know two types: honeybees (the genus Apis) and bumblebees (the genus Bombus).
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"The pesticides with greatest effects on bumblebees are insecticides and herbicides," the agency said.
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Still, there are a number of possible challenges to letting bumblebees dole out natural fungicides.
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This isn't the first time bumblebees have been outfitted with tech to collect flight data.
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Bumblebees seemed completely unbothered by the dimmed light from the partial coverage of the sun.
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President Trump's regulatory moratorium captures protections for bumblebees in Friday's edition of the Federal Register.
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Endangered: The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is moving forward with new protections for bumblebees.
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In the meantime, it has also attracted other pollinators such as bees, butterflies and bumblebees.
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Bumblebees tend to prefer cooler, slightly wet climates in which there's a variation in seasons.
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Researchers found that, much like humans, bumblebees will gladly perform basic tasks for sugary treats.
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New Research Suggests Climate Change is Wiping Out BumblebeesA study led by Canadian researchers shows that bumblebees are disappearing in many areas where they …Read more ReadSadly, however, this process could be interrupted by climate change; bumblebees are particularly sensitive to the effects global warming.
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He did tell me, however, that all of these bumblebees, except the queen, die each year.
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Compared to other species of bumblebee, American bumblebees have decreased in abundance in Canada by 89%.
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The most popular costumes for pets are pumpkins, hot dogs, superheroes, and bumblebees, according to WalletHub.
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They're an odd couple indeed: she wears leggings striped like bumblebees, he resides in a castle.
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At one point, a preposterously long horn trill seems to unleash an attack of martial bumblebees.
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Honey bees, as well as squash bees, bumblebees, and solitary bees, help bring this fruit to fruition.
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Lots of kinds of bees, including honey bees, squash bees, and bumblebees, can participate in cucumber pollination.
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The queen bumblebees have made themselves a little sleeping chamber deep in the soil of my garden.
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Some flowers in cities may be prettier to people than they are rewarding or attractive to bumblebees.
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Take a moment to watch and listen to a flowering redbud tree full of pollen-drunk bumblebees.
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The new study, however, is able to isolate the effect that hotter temperatures are having on bumblebees.
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The biggest threats to these bumblebees include pesticides, habitat loss and climate change, according to the FWS.
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If you know something about bumblebees and what they're up to -- I didn't, Thorp did -- this makes sense.
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"This paper is about bumblebees doing something that no one thought any terrestrial animal could do," Sutton said.
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England has lost two species of wild bumblebees to extinction and the U.S. has lost one, Inouye said.
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Bumblebees are vanishing at a rate consistent with widespread extinction, and climate change is playing a big role.
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In the summer of 1909, an entomologist named Anton Krausse strolled the narrow streets of Sardinia netting bumblebees.
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Bees help pollinate 35% of the world's food, and bumblebees pollinate everything from tomatoes to cranberries, blueberries and melons.
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Researchers compared honeybees, bumblebees, and solitary bees living near insecticide-treated rapeseed fields with those around fields without insecticide.
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By listing these bumblebees as endangered, the agency hopes to reverse a 90 percent population decline in recent years.
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Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em.
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Bumble Bee Watch recruits people from every state in the United States and Canada to record bumblebees they see.
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These bumblebees are found in the Midwest and along the East Coast, but they have disappeared from many states.
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Bumblebees are known for some impressive physical feats, including the ability to fly at high altitudes and see ultraviolet light.
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"Take a moment to watch and listen to a flowering redbud tree full of pollen-drunk bumblebees," he has written.
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Oddly, as sprawling cities and vast agricultural fields replace forests and meadows, people have noticed more bumblebees buzzing around cities.
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The move was praised by environmental groups that pointed to the role bumblebees play in pollinating the nation's food system.
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Over 20 years, America's monarch butterfly population has declined 0003 percent, and the number of bumblebees has dropped nearly as much.
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We can't wait to start our lives together and one day have our own little bumblebees to add to the hive.
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I read the other day that bumblebees are in sharp decline, victims of warming temperatures that raise their risk of extinction.
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"Interactions between these factors are expected to accelerate biodiversity loss for bumblebees and other [species] over broad areas," the study said.
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As I climbed higher in elevation above Putah Creek, there was an abundance of B-letter wildlife: blue jays, bumblebees, butterflies.
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In experiments with bumblebees—pollinators that rely on a wide assortment of flowers—the flying bugs detected and sought out the patterns.
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On the ground before them was a roadwork sign, fallen on its side, smothered in honey and swarming with hundreds of bumblebees.
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The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) said Tuesday it will protect rusty patched bumblebees from threats posed by pesticides and climate change.
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And it has recently been discovered that both bumblebees and honeybees can detect and discriminate among weak electrostatic fields emanating from flowers.
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For this study, Soroye and colleagues examined data from 1900 to 2015 on 66 species of bumblebees across North America and Europe.
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"Insecticides, by design, kill insects and herbicides reduce floral diversity," Xerces Society, a nonprofit conservation organization, said in its handbook for conserving bumblebees.
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But science is also coming to the rescue, by gluing QR codes to bumblebees' backs and tracking their movements with a robotic camera.
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It takes a specific presence to make a sheer bodice with bumblebees flying across the boobs work, and Janelle Monáe is that presence.
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The "white flight" costume somehow incorporated Mr. Potato Head, long strips of paper 3-D glasses and bumblebees affixed to a picket fence.
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Wednesday's edition of the Federal Register contains new protections for bumblebees, environmental standards for military ships and discrimination rules for the federal government.
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Cheerios encouraged the seed recipients to plant wildflowers in their backyards to provide more nectar and pollen for bumblebees, honeybees and other struggling species.
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Other research groups are fitting bumblebees with simple "backpacks" by supergluing small trackers, like radio-frequency identification tags, to them to follow their movement.
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Minnesota is launching a program that encourages homeowners to let their lawns go to seed — all in the name of rescuing bumblebees and birds.
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"Bumblebees are the best pollinators we have in wild landscapes and the most effective pollinators for crops like tomato, squash, and berries," Soroye said.
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Second, there are thousands of species of wild bees out there, such as bumblebees, that also pollinate flowers and crops all over the world.
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In the experiment, bumblebees learned to manipulate a little ball into a "goal," and when they did it, they'd get a reward: sugar water.
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These high-rise buildings featuring more than 20,000 different plants are home to bumblebees, hermit wild bees, and around 20 different species of birds.
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That's the idea behind this project that equips bumblebees with sensor-filled backpacks that charge wirelessly and collect data on the fields they visit.
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There were thousands of Tennessee coneflowers blooming all over the grasslands, too, and like the other wildflowers they were covered with bumblebees and butterflies.
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Their findings highlighted that as climate change causes temperatures and precipitation to increase beyond what bumblebees can tolerate, so does their risk for extinction.
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The discovery that bumblebees use hair on their legs to detect a flower's electromagnetic field offers another reminder that human senses don't always measure up.
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They work almost every day, live on the farm, and don't even get paid: turns out bumblebees are happy to do this work for free.
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Wasps and bumblebees do not leave their stingers in their sting victims, so unless you are allergic, managing the pain should be your only concern.
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"Bumblebees are among the best pollinators we have in the wildlife system," said Peter Soroye, co-author and PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa.
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Here are 10 other animals that prefer to take the winter months off: Queen bumblebees hibernate during the winter and the rest of the bees die.
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In a world without bees — specifically honey bees, squash bees, bumblebees, and solitary bees — these plants won't be able to develop without their pollination, deemed "essential."
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And in a new study published Tuesday, scientists examined exactly how bumblebees are affected by pesticides by scanning bumble bee brains and testing their learning abilities.
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"All rusty patched bumblebees have entirely black heads, but only workers and males have a rusty reddish patch centrally located on the abdomen," the agency said.
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They found that bees were vanishing in the areas that had heated up beyond the limit in which the bumblebees had historically been able to survive.
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It invariably proclaims spring, effective immediately, then sets about making itself irresistible to bumblebees — who haven't even begun to think about pollen collection, by the way.
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Bumblebees are crucial to the environment The study is just the latest evidence that bee populations are declining in North America and other parts of the world.
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In the latest triumph for one of humanity's favorite insects, bumblebees learned how to push a ball to the center of a platform for a sugary treat.
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A six-fingered hand reached down over my bed, and as it grew closer, the pads of its fingers transformed into six bumblebees the size of large rocks.
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They found that nearly half of all regions in North America where bumblebees had been recorded in the earlier period no longer registered bees in the later period.
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READ MORE: Gin and Tonic Tastes Better with Ants Madden said they've found yeast in ants, but so far have only released beer with strains selected from bumblebees.
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"If that hypothesis was correct we might expect bumblebees to show fast rates of evolution in their immune genes to cope with some of these pressures," Zayed said.
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While honeybees may congregate in insect cities of 100,000 bees or more, bumblebees live in the equivalent of small towns, with colonies of 50 to a few hundred.
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Indeed, all bumblebees die at the end of the season, except for the queen, who stores up food and hibernates to start a new hive the next spring.
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Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) with nests containing high total concentrations of these three pesticides produced fewer queens; red mason bees (Osmia bicornis) exposed to them made fewer eggs.
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The new research offers a relief and a warning: It is positive that bumblebees can exploit city resources, but agricultural fields of the future should be more bee friendly.
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Such measures are especially important with native bumblebees, Dr. vanEngelsdorp noted, as opposed to honeybees, which are maintained in large colonies and trucked around the country for commercial pollination.
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Trilobites The scene: Visitors in the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens near London have reported hundreds, if not thousands of bees, especially bumblebees, sick or dead, beneath fragrant, flowering Tilia trees.
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Three bumblebees are believed to have gone extinct already: Bombus rubriventris, Bombus melanopoda and Bombus franklini; the rusty-patched bumblebee was listed under the Endangered Species Act just last year.
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Menus, which used to be kept inside a clear plastic sheath, are now presented inside folders made of textured handmade paper, held in place with stickers of bumblebees and butterflies.
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Neonicotinoids are used worldwide in a range of crops and have been shown in lab-based studies to be harmful to certain species of bee - notably commercial honeybees and bumblebees.
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"Bumblebees are dying off, vanishing from our farms, gardens and parks, where they were once found in great numbers," said Rebecca Riley, senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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Beekeepers can protect bumblebees from excessive sun and rain exposure by planting shrubs in addition to flowers, and by building hive shelters with roofs and surrounding protective materials such as wood.
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This research shows that, along with cues such as color and scent, this "invisible" heat also serves to attract pollinating insects (at least bumblebees), helping them to locate a reward, typically nectar.
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In the study, the effects of climate change on bumblebees were observed independent of these human practices, meaning if those are accounted for, too, the risk of extinction would be even greater.
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Bee Vector Technology, or BVT, has designed a system that allows bumblebees to walk through a tray of a natural, mold-fighting fungus on their way out of the hive to pollinate flowers.
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Here's the self-interested one: Bees help pollinate 21990% of the world's food, and bumblebees, of which Franklin's bumblebee is (or was) one, pollinate everything from tomatoes to cranberries and blueberries and melons.
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They're being poisoned by pesticides while urbanization encroaches on bees' natural habitats, leaving them with fewer places to live and fewer wildflowers to feed on, says Harvard biologist James Crall, who studies bumblebees.
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Bumblebees buzzed, birds chirped and not a spot of bare earth was visible, unlike a knoll across the valley, a Christmas tree farm, where rows of evergreens stood on bare gray-brown earth.
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To fill in this missing piece, his team set up a nest in the lab and filled it with Bombus terrestris, one of Europe's most common bumblebees and a popular pollinator in greenhouses.
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Bumblebees are particularly effective pollinators because, though they seem to prefer native flowers, they will pollinate pretty much anything and can fly in lower temperatures and lower light conditions than many other insects.
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But I got to like the bumblebees, because they were fuzzy, because flying seemed to be so much work for them, and because my parents promised that they would never, ever sting me.
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The loss of bumblebees can contribute to decreasing biodiversity and impairment of ecosystem services, which impact food and water supply; the control of climate and disease; and supporting nutrient cycles and oxygen production.
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Industrial agriculture employs only a handful of pollinator species to sustain it, mostly uber-efficient honeybees and bumblebees that are toted from one farm to the next to provide pollination when and where needed.
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His new parents (also his self-professed "best friends") tell PEOPLE that Captain Weenie's fans are much like Beyoncé's, but instead of using bumblebees they comment on his posts with the hot dog emoji.
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"Additionally, most [bee] species are fuzzy, and those hairs attract pollen grains, making the bees even more likely to pollinate," says Jessica Beckham, a post-doctoral researcher studying bumblebees at the University of North Texas.
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The playground was inspired by the 1989 film, and once featured 30-foot tall grass, 40-foot-tall bumblebees, and a 52-foot-tall garden hose that sprayed visitors with water, according to WDW Info.
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"This paper is about bumblebees doing something that no one thought any terrestrial animal could do" These results suggest that the bees' body hairs — and not the antennae — are the secret to the bumblebee's extraordinary ability.
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Other bumblebees live in the Arctic, but polaris survives closer to the North Pole than any other bee except a parasitic species that creates no nests and breeds no workers, laying its eggs in polaris nests.
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Declines in their populations are associated with increasing frequency of hotter temperatures and drying out of habitats, which raises bumblebees' risk for extinction and diminishes their chances of colonizing a new area and creating more species.
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Bumblebees can fly carrying almost their whole body weight, and can fly as far as 12 miles at a time, whereas even the best long-range drones can only fly up to four miles from their operators.
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Researchers at the University of Missouri, along with a small army of elementary school children and other volunteers, collected audio recordings of honeybees, bumblebees and other types of bees as they visited flowers along the path of totality.
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This industry.. Surprising as it would have been to me as a kid marveling how a human being can tell a story about a flight of bumblebees using sound.. The music industry is brutal and relentless and unforgiving.
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Sarina Jepsen, deputy chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's bumblebee specialist group, and a director at the Xerces Society, an environmental nonprofit, told me about 22006% of bumblebees in North America are at risk for extinction.
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This case isn't closed, but here's what the researchers believe following their review: The bumblebees end up relying too much on the Tilia as a food source because they form strong associations with its odor, color or flower shape.
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The foxes are "the real East Enders," because they "know that there's a mouse nest under the porch at number 17A and bumblebees by the cedar decking at number 29B," and are exploring and hunting on these particular streets.
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Christiansen, with the Paris-based architects Studio KO, conceived of a fanciful shrine to print media, culminating in a pair of doors ornately carved with reliefs of owls, cactuses and bumblebees (the office is just on the other side).
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The relative abundance of four different species of bumblebees in the United States dropped by up to 96 percent, while their geographic range shrank by up to 87 percent in as little as 20 years, according to a 2011 study.
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Among other actions, Mr. Obama in recent weeks has declared parts of the Arctic and the Atlantic Ocean off limits to offshore drilling for oil and gas and invoked the Endangered Species Act to further protect bumblebees and polar bears.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Britain have managed to teach bumblebees to pull strings to get to food and then pass on what they have learned to others in their colony - showing a high level of intelligence despite their tiny brains.
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Tiny handmade feather flowers that recalled Monsieur Dior's 1950s porcelain dinner service had been pressed between the panels of vinyl coats; delicate embroidered bumblebees (a house motif) were sewn across pants and shirts, as if buzzing around a springtime garden.
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Perry and his team figured this out by first teaching bumblebees a new skill that they wouldn't naturally learn in the wild: pulling a string to free a disc from under a plexiglass covered in order to access the nectar inside.
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Sarina Jepsen, deputy chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's bumblebee specialist group, and a director at the Xerces Society, an environmental nonprofit, told CNN in December that about 25% of bumblebees in North America are at risk for extinction.
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The honeybees and wasps and bumblebees have been in heaven here, too, and hummingbirds kept trying to guard the flowers from seed-hunting goldfinches, who cling to the stems and rip the petals apart in a paroxysm that looks exactly like joy.
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Those include reducing the use of pesticides, planting a diverse array of flowers and shrubs to prevent habitat loss and providing bumblebees with occasional shelter from the sun "during extreme weather events that they're being subjected to more frequently because of climate change," Soroye said.
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Simon catalogues a number of these tiny puppet-masters, traveling to far-flung locales in search of zombie ants, killer shrimp (which are a particularly unpleasant sort), diabolical caterpillars, cunning birds, murderous bumblebees, and the beautiful jewel-toned wasps that perform complex brain surgery on unsuspecting cockroaches.
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Climate change has an effect, as well, especially in the case of bumblebees in North America and Europe, said Sir Robert Watson, vice chairman of the group and director of strategic development at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.
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A field note from Spain published in Bee World shows how easily this fascination can develop into full-on inquiry:On 10 December 1986, up to 55 [bumblebees] (queens and workers) congregated simultaneously to feed in a small ground area where human urine had been deposited a few hours before.
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Check out Tuesday's stories ... -Report: VW agrees to $4.3B settlement in emissions scandal -Dem: No hearing for EPA pick until questions answered -GOP slows Trump Cabinet confirmation pace -Feds: Some bumblebees are endangered -Top Democrat calls for party unity on regulations Jordain Carney contributed.
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On a warm, late-summer afternoon in the garden of Eden—the Eden Café garden that is, where wildflower hedgerows buzz with bumblebees, apple trees are laden with shiny fruit glinting in the sun, and a small woman lugs a massive branch to a blazing fire pit—a biochar workshop with artist and social startup innovator Ayumi Matzusaka is underway.
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It's one of bike rides into sunsets, treehouses, wearing a different color each and every day (as he does with his GOLF line of clothing), exploring the world rather than throwing hours away on the internet, eating far too much sugar, being conscious and not wasted, bumblebees, afternoon adventures with a crush—or even doing nothing, except being still and outside.
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