The committee has been taking evidence (in rather impressive depth) on their effects on bees and pollinating insects.
You have a lot of cross-pollinating when people start funding items on discovery.
When you have all the cross-pollinating people begin funding more items on discovery.
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Robots that emerge from the research project could help in search and rescue missions or work on farms mechanically pollinating crops.
Fiona Tavner, from Oxford Friends of the Earth, said the meadow would help to create "vital food for threatened local pollinating insects".
As for cross-breeding, Mother Nature had done it first, cross-pollinating different wild grasses until they produced a grain that could eventually expand into modern bread.
Pymetrics was started with the idea of cross-pollinating neuroscience and business.
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Scientists in New Zealand say they have linked the modern-day decline of a common forest shrub with the local extinction of two pollinating birds over a century ago.
Bees play a key role in agriculture by pollinating crops.
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And Environment Minister Lord de Mauley is back before the Environmental Audit Committee (at 2.15pm) as it continues its long investigation into the effect of neonicitinoid pesticides on pollinating insects.
The discovery of this new sweat bee species which belongs to a large family of bee species that depend on human perspiration for salt to survive highlights the importance of the thousands of native bee species in pollinating plants, flowers and fruits.
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