Sentence examples for domesticated bee from inspiring English sources

Forget prissy little domesticated bee boxes.

In the United States, domesticated bee populations are at a 50-year low and falling, and the story is much the same in other countries.

Neonicotinoids are among the world's most effective and widely used insecticides, and there is significant disagreement as to how much — if at all — they are contributing to the crisis that has devastated global wild and domesticated bee populations.

By controlling the timing of flowering through irrigation or managing domesticated bee hives, farmers effectively reduce the dependency on nearby forest cover for pollinator services irrespective of the distance between forests and agro-forests, but these management practices incur costs that not every farmer can cover.

Domesticated bees mainly produce honey; any contribution they make to crop pollination is usually a secondary benefit.

Could domesticated bees take up the slack?

Wild and domesticated bees as well as other insects such as hoverflies are especially important in the production of fruit, vegetables and oilseeds.

So badly has the bee population been diminished that in California, the important almond crop now requires more than one-third of all the domesticated bees in the United States for pollination.

In 2008, Tscharntke selected nine major strawberry varieties and planted them in an experimental field with plenty of wild bees and domesticated honey bees living nearby.

For the sake of honey, the bee was domesticated at the end of the Neolithic Period.

But he doesn't consider the bees a domesticated animal.