Sentence examples for capture bees from inspiring English sources
While running Experiment 1 we were impressed by the fact that white spiders appeared sluggish and less eager to capture bees than yellow spiders – although we realise that this is a subjective impression and difficult to quantify.
An argument similar to the one sketched above suggests that colour matching does affect hunting success: in Experiment 1, yellow spiders were more likely to capture bees than white spiders (Fig. 5).
Few small spiders managed to capture bees, and given that honeybees avoided small, UV-reflecting spiders, it is difficult to imagine how UV reflectance might improve their hunting success.
A morning's work collected barely enough pollen to cover the bottom of a pot, and the captured bees have been extremely cross about their contribution to science.
The captured bees were anesthetized with CO2 and mounted in small metal tubes that restrained body movement but allowed free movement of antennae and mouthparts [30].
Captured bees were immobilized by cooling them briefly, and a small piece of iron plate (size: 1 mm ×2 mm, thickness: 0.02 mm) was brazed with beeswax on their thorax.
Body mass was measured by capturing bees at the entrance of the Plexiglas tunnel as they departed and arrived and transferring them to an electronic balance (Ohaus Navigator N20330, Ohaus Corporation, USA).
Large spiders were very successful at capturing bees and seemed to need little help of UV reflectance to capture their prey: 21 out of 39 spiders with a prosoma width larger than 3.50 mm successfully captured a honeybee within the first 15 minutes of observation.
The timing of capturing bees can be a bit difficult; the bees move very quickly, so you should not wait until they're close to your character; simply hit "A" once you spot the black swarm on screen.
There is, I later learned, a far better reason to capture the bees: if left in the wild, three-quarters of all swarms die by the onset of winter.
