Sentence examples for flying bumblebees from inspiring English sources

The great grey shrike is able to detect flying bumblebees up to 100 metres away; once captured, the sting is removed by repeatedly squeezing the insect with the mandibles and wiping the abdomen on a branch.

But he did see a range of insects wasps, flies, bumblebees and others feeding from honey-bush flowers that had no petals covering them.

In the dimness you can still make out bumblebees flying bottom-heavy from blossom to blossom.

The Sarajevo players remembered him making them lie on the floor in a darkened room while he played taped music and told them to imagine themselves as bumblebees flying from flower to flower.

Freely foraging bumblebees flying in an experimental arena learned to differentiate between rewarding (sucrose solution providing) and aversive (quinine solution providing) artificial "flowers" in a single learning session.

When Rhee decided to crack a window to let in some fresh air, in flew a bumblebee.

To answer the question whether bumblebee foragers utilise the available photoperiod under continuous daylight conditions, we conducted field experiments with free-flying bumblebees during midsummer in northern Scandinavia.

For example, free-flying bumblebees showed impairment in learning the color of rewarding flowers when their immune system was stimulated non-pathogenically (Alghamdi et al. 2008).

This hoverfly takes the deception a stage further and looks exactly like a bumblebee – it even flies like a bumblebee.

This research shows that more forage needs to be planted in the areas where bumblebees are flying further than other areas.

Researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London, collected hundreds of free flying honeybees and wild bumblebees in 26 areas of England, Wales and Scotland.