Sentence examples for mortality of bees from inspiring English sources
'The product had no effect on the mortality of bees,' he said.
For this purpose, we recorded the mortality of bees at the end of the week after the challenge and until the infection experiment was carried out.
This storage seems to increase the colony sensitivity to infections, which is translated into a greater mortality of bees during the winter [ 4, 5].
Increasing adult bee mortality had a much greater impact on colony survival than mortality of bee larvae or reduction in egg laying rate.
The mortality of these bees during the infectious phase (described in Sect. 2.1.1) was expected to correlate directly with bacterial proliferation in the hemocoel.
In the same study, excess mortality of vg- bees was shown to be linked to cellular damage that included a severe oxidative insult to the fat body, after exposure to paraquat.
Prior to 2006, overwintering mortality of honey bee colonies in North America was 10 to 15%; however, losses in North America and Europe have dramatically increased to an average of approximately 30% [ 2].
In the paired comb blocks, detection of increasing mortality for bees reared in control blocks and decreasing mortality for treatment blocks, over time, confirms toxicological consequences from pesticide residue migration.
Differences in sample size between the first and second day of experiment were due to mortality and to the exclusion of bees that did not respond to any voltage and of bees that did not exhibit the unconditioned response (SER) during conditioning (see Materials and Methods).
The BEEHAVE model (BEEHAVE-Model Version 2014-03-04, free to download at www.beehave-model.net) was modified to increase the daily mortality of different life stages of bees in the colony from a defined day for a defined period to simulate potential effects of an exposure event (where exposure is defined as the period when toxic effects are imposed).
The mortality of the temperature-treated bees displayed a time-dependent course.
