Sentence examples for clusters of bees from inspiring English sources
So far this season, the police have responded to three complaints about clusters of bees, and a Brooklyn playground had to be temporarily closed because of the presence of a swarm.
Calm clusters of bees were drunk on fresh honey, so Mr. Hoffman dipped in a finger for a taste: the nectar was pale as pilsner and tasted of the flowers it came from.
For example, a condition named "May Disease" occurred in Colorado in 1891 and 1896, where large clusters of bees completely disappeared or significantly declined over a short period of time [5].
Many beekeepers also reported incidence of "isolation starvation", when the cluster of bees in the hive becomes too cold to move close enough to eat their food stores in another part of the hive, and so starve.
For example, in the middle of an outstanding description of the evolutionary arms race between Asian giant hornets and native Japanese honeybees, Coyne remarks that the bees' defense mechanism (a cluster of bees mobs a hornet and heats the hornet's body to 117°F, cooking it alive) is similar to techniques used by Christians in the Spanish Inquisition.
Standardized effect size scores for MPD using presence-absence data showed significant clustering of bee communities at five of six farms and two of the five hill prairies.
A distinct clustering of bee-pollinated species was also observed for several other floral traits linked to pollination in Araceae (Gibernau, Chartier & Barabé, 2010).
Flightless now and shivering, around their Queen they cling; every bee a gift of heat; she will not freeze within the winter cluster of the bees.
Bring me for my Christmas gift a single golden jar; let me taste the sweetness there, but honey leave to feed the winter cluster of the bees.
Carol Ann Duffy The Bee Carol Carol Ann Duffy Silently on Christmas Eve, the turn of midnight's key; all the garden locked in ice – a silver frieze – except the winter cluster of the bees.
But such sophisticated technology would not be necessary at, say, a truck stop, where the clustering of alerted bees would be apparent.
