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bee | American Dictionary

bee
noun[ C ]
us/bi/
a flying insect that has a yellow and black body and is able to sting

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Environmental conditions were observed to strongly influence the honey bee efficiency as pollinator and seed-set varied considerably from year to year.
Resampling of selected locations tested the repeatability of responses of bees to baits.
The proportions of these hydrocarbons increased in extracts of parasitized honey bees.
The book concludes with a very long literature list of 63 pages, suitably cross-referenced, covering the biology and taxonomy of solitary bees and wasps.
During the course of research for this book, 2000 nest sites of selected solitary bees and wasps were 'evaluated and interpreted'.
In these cases, the bees may be opportunistic visitors or facultative pollinators.
How are stingless bee colonies distributed in tropical wet forests?
Since the nocturnal canopy is relatively unexplored, the phenomenon of pollination by nocturnal bees may be commoner than these limited observations suggest.
These bees over-winter in cocoons as diapausing adults.
A bee buzzes thanks to ' internal causation ', but a doorbell requires external causation ; so only in the second use does the unaccusative-causative alternation obtain.
Comparative foraging behavior of six stingless bee species exploiting a standardized resource.
Alternative methods involve censusing foraging bees at natural o r artificial resources.
For each honey bee category, the relative proportions of the different cuticular compounds of the unparasitized group were compared with those of the parasitized bees.
However, honey bees or alfalfa leafcutting bees were seen actively foraging in the soybean plots.
When bees from separate grids interacted with one another, 12 out of 18 pairings produced aggression.
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