Hovering around city parks and flower beds are masked bees, miner bees, mason bees, plasterer bees, cuckoo bees, leafcutter bees, horned bees, and at least 49 species of sweat bees.
Africanized honey bees, which are hybrids of African and European bees, can be highly defensive around their nests and swarm more frequently than other honey bees, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
As the name suggests solitary bees are lone operators, while bumble and honey bees are social and live in colonies.
As the years passed, the critics found that his sound described by fellow Juilliard classmate Jeaneane Dowis as so natural it seemed to come "from the birds and the bees and the trees and the air" had begun to lose its luster, and his interpretations some of their artfulness.
The organic farm provides about 100 varieties of produce and it also raises chickens and bees for eggs and honey.
In fact, their bees are so healthy that Australian beekeepers export queen bees and nucleus hives to countries with declining populations.
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She and her colleagues measured honey production, bee deaths, weight gain of colonies while foraging on canola, and insecticide residue on bees and in pollen, nectar, beeswax and honey.
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As befits someone whose first decade of professional output inspired a book called "Habits, Patterns, Algorithms" (ORO Editions, 2008), he's the quintessential polymath: one part nerdy, several parts worldly and equally interested in bees and Brigitte Bardot.
He prefers Italian bees, since they are the most productive and gentle, he says, and Carniolan bees, which are the healthiest during the difficult winter months.
They have commissioned new studies that will look at the impacts of neonicotinoids on bumble bees in field conditions and to understand what levels of pesticide residues and disease in honey bees are normal.
Most looked at the hive, saw a large bee in charge, assumed it was stronger and more able than other bees, and drew the inference of a master bee.
Beekeepers have a saying: Enough good food in the right place at the right time and your bees will be healthy, wealthy and wise.
Slugs and seals prospered but bees, birds and mammals struggled, with bats particularly hard hit.
Delicious dates and honey produced by bees imported from Italy and Egypt are available year-round.
Insects such as bees and ants use it to produce their drones, for example.
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The committee has been taking evidence (in rather impressive depth) on their effects on bees and pollinating insects.
Bees and ants are great at it, but they can only do it because they are all sisters.
Dubbed "coralbots", they are being designed to work in groups, in a similar manner to bees and ants.
The project will help raise awareness of the threats facing local bees and offer opportunities to get involved.
Clap a fume board on top of a hive and bees flee, making it possible to pilfer their treasure.
Ants, bees and wasps form complex communities but do not seem to rely on facial characteristics for their communication.
Have you ever wondered how you could rise above the swarm of worker bees and make a name for yourself?
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Ants and bees prove remarkably adept at marshaling the collective intelligence of the hive to solve common and complex problems.
Of course, that only leaves even more treats for fashion's hungry worker bees and anyone with a naturally high metabolism.
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In Utah to this day, bees and hives are imprinted on sidewalks, the state flag and the transoms of bank doors.
At her cottage on the river Cam she grew fruit and vegetables and had cats for company, and bees provided by her sister.
It holds about fourteen thousand worker bees and a single queen, who is housed, along with a few devoted attendants, in a tiny cage.
For those who have a history of anaphylactic reactions to insects, vaccines are available for yellow jackets, wasps, honey bees and fire ants, Bassett said.
"These chemicals have been shown to affect the foraging behaviour of bees and damage bee brain function, " said Rachel Sharp, the chief executive officer of Wildlife Trusts Wales.
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