Sentence examples for empty flowers from inspiring English sources

Bringing a bottle of wine used to imply that your host's cellar was empty; flowers were a slur on the hostess's gardening skills.

"Initially, the bees' routes were long and complex, and they revisited empty flowers several times," Lihoreau says.

In this scenario moths tend to find either empty flowers or flowers that have the amount of nectar they had at the time of opening, assumed to be constant in the baseline model.

Ishii et al. (2008) found that pollinators avoided inflorescences with greater numbers of empty flowers.

> At the moderately warm temperatures in the climate chamber (∼26.5 29.5 °C) the plants had no empty flowers (producing no nectar) per plant, while at lower and higher temperatures the proportion of empty flowers increased.

All studied traits except the proportion of empty flowers per plant were modelled by following the description above.

In this way bees never experienced an empty flower with the exception of the last visited one.

As in the pre-training, flowers were refilled after the bee moved to a different one so that bees never experienced an empty flower with the exception of the last visited one.

Workers sprayed insecticides and went into each family's garden, emptying flower pots, fountains and the rainwater collection barrels to remove the mosquitoes' breeding ground.

Similarly, an emptied flower provides no information about its nectar concentration.

The planters, long since empty of flowers, were filled with concrete in an attempt -- not altogether successful -- to discourage rats.