And they do pollinate, because the males drink nectar, but they don't pollinate the ways bees do.
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Bees help pollinate 35% of the world's food, and bumblebees pollinate everything from tomatoes to cranberries, blueberries and melons.
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A hummingbird-esque Hawk moth arrives to pollinate Peniocereus greggii, the twiggy desert cactus, and bats typically pollinate other species.
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"Stingless bees preferentially visit and pollinate the canopy of native forest trees, unlike the introduced honeybees — Apis mellifera — that tend to pollinate introduced weedy plants at ground level," says Buchmann.
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Here's the self-interested one: Bees help pollinate 21990% of the world's food, and bumblebees, of which Franklin's bumblebee is (or was) one, pollinate everything from tomatoes to cranberries and blueberries and melons.
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Even if the technical skills could be perfected enough to let Robobee pollinate without crushing plants, programming it to recognize which plants to pollinate and which to leave alone would be remarkably complex.
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"Tomatoes, squash, watermelons, bees pollinate those," he told the outlet.
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Human hands and technology can pollinate crops, but it's pricey.
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Bees pollinate more than a third of the world's crops.
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Farmers there need many bees to pollinate their almond groves.
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Hell, the agave plant even needs bats to pollinate it.
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No bees to pollinate apple, cherry, peach, or almond trees.
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The Franklin's bumblebee alone would help pollinate cranberries, blueberries and melons.
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Bees "pollinate a third of everything that we eat," Allen says.
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He wondered if he could use the gel to pollinate flowers.
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Bumblebees, mining bees, and more than 100 other kinds pollinate blueberries.
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Bees pollinate cashew trees, with help from moths and fruit bats.
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Egyptians floated hives up and down the Nile to pollinate flowers.
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As adults, they pollinate flowers as they eat nectar and pollen.
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Birds protect crops from insects, pollinate flowers and spread plant seeds.
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Bumblebees pollinate plants such as cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, blueberries and melon.
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Worldwide, insects pollinate more than 75 percent of our food crops.
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That's the interesting part of this project - is to cross-pollinate.
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The yellow-faced bees pollinate some of Hawaii's endangered native plant species.
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Robotic insects could help pollinate plants if bee numbers continue to decline.
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Bees aren't the only pollinators, but they pollinate the majority of crops.
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They keep the forest's bugs under control, spread seeds, and pollinate plants.
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Honey bees, as well as bumblebees and solitary bees pollinate their bushes.
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Now farmers are turning to alternative species to help pollinate their crops.
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The idea was to cross-pollinate a paisley with a rainbow ikat.
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The idea was to cross-pollinate a paisley with a rainbow ikat.
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The scarcity of natural pollinators is forcing farmers to hand-pollinate their crops.
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Transporting bees to pollinate crops appears to negatively affect their health and lifespan.
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As a result, the communities from which memes sprang didn't cross-pollinate often.
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If there are blooms, a citrus tree may pollinate itself to some extent.
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Another suggests the use of drones carrying pollen dispensers to successfully pollinate crops.
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They can pollinate better than a "vibrator" -- so let them do their thing, right?
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Kanye is trying his best to avoid the bumblebees that pollinate the tomato plants.
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Gabriel Farm in Sebastopol, California, received four honey bee hives to pollinate their orchards.
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They are dwindling and they're so important to our environment because they pollinate everything.
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Bees are essential to agriculture and food security, since they pollinate so many plants.
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Cows eat alfalfa, which bees pollinate, meaning bees have a hand in dairy products.
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The flowers bathed in ultraviolet light become beacons enticing them to land and pollinate.
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After pollinating almonds, Hiatt will send 10,000 hives up to Washington to pollinate apples.
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The buds bloom in June, and we bring in honeybees to pollinate the flowers.
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First, I wanted to use crosswords to bring people closer, to cross-pollinate ideas.
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The two trading worlds could cross-pollinate, dragging even more people into the crypto scene.
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It would threaten butterflies, the plants they pollinate, and the many songbirds that eat caterpillars.
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Coffee plants can pollinate themselves, but they need help from bees to produce strong yields.
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Honey bees pollinate $15 billion worth of US food crops, according to the Associated Press.
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Narrator: Bees help pollinate the reported 84% of crops humans eat that are insect-pollinated.
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Without bees to pollinate plants, the plants would die, taking life on Earth with them.
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The formula also conditions bees to pollinate a specific target crops they aren't necessarily attracted to.
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Meanwhile, the previously unheard-of practice of swapping honeybees cross-country to pollinate farms became routine.
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Bees pollinate plants producing fruit, nuts and vegetables, and are crucial for the nation's food industry.
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Bumble bees pollinate wildflowers and about a third of U.S. crops, according to the Xerces Society.
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Bees help pollinate a third of the crops Americans eat, including almonds, apples, avocados, and blueberries.
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"We need bees and even flies to pollinate the fruits and vegetables we eat," Sartore wrote.
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Still, the 103 and 105 teams work together on some projects, and cross-pollinate their accomplishments.
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They depict real things: hallucinogenic flowering plants and a species of moth known to pollinate them.
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As bees die off because of pesticides, there's talk of using tiny drones to pollinate crops.
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The insects pollinate flowers while they feed on nectar, a process that produces the crops humans eat.
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Drones are supposed to laze around in the hive while their sisters collect nectar and pollinate flowers.
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Broadly speaking, farmers around the world rely on two types of bees to pollinate their agricultural crops.
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The latest ladies to cross-pollinate are Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus, who both recently released singles.
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Massa said that next year, astronauts will try and pollinate dwarf tomatoes by hand aboard the ISS.
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There's no reason why you can't have a robotic system with sensors to cross-pollinate the plants.
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And a variety of animals pollinate forest plants, disperse seeds, and nourish the soil with their waste.
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They make our honey, they pollinate our flowers, but also they're a bunch of sting-crazy assholes.
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But The Americans is virtually unique among TV dramas in that its worlds almost never cross-pollinate.
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Moreover, the practice may even be harmful to farms by reducing insect populations that pollinate many crops.
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These losses drive up prices for farmers who rent honeybees to pollinate their crops, straining their businesses.
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Midtown hotels use the colonies to produce honey for cocktails, and hives help pollinate the city's parks.
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Or you may also try adorning yourself with flowers from your garden — especially the kinds hummingbirds pollinate.
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They decompose decaying matter, they aerate the soil, they pollinate the plants, which then create the forests.
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Vanilla Vanilla is so difficult to growYou have to pollinate it with a beeIndigenous to central Mexico.
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You might think bees are just smart enough to pollinate, make honey, maybe sting once in a while.
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Our clients are directly connected and work together to cross-pollinate, drive innovation, and grow each other's businesses.
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Because farmers rely on bees to pollinate crops, bee loss is a threat to agriculture and food production.
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Niño: There are researchers who are trying to develop drone pollinators, so using drone technology to pollinate flowers.
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When farmers create new wildlife habitat, it increases animal and insect populations that control pests and pollinate plants.
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It's harvested from bees that pollinate the lavender plants blanketing the mountainsides in Spain and Portugal in May.
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Bret Adee's family operation provides more than two billion bees to farmers who need to pollinate their crops.
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We bring people together, support them and allow them to cross-pollinate by sharing their activities with others.
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This show instead exists solely to cross pollinate the market of people buying art and people buying dresses.
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Researchers in Japan have created insect-size drones that pollinate plants to replace — or at least help — real honeybees.
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Beekeeper Nathan Smith said the bees were being transported from Montana to California's Central Valley to pollinate almond trees.
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They pollinate a large percentage of fruits and vegetables that play a significant role in the global food supply.
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Like bees buzzing from flower to flower, there are ideas to pollinate and plans that could use some productivity.
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You just float around, gathering up flower petals until you have enough to pollinate grassy fields and spin turbines.
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Outside of his gallery work, Sook has also been tapped to cross-pollinate his work into the music world.
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We need bees to pollinate our crops, but it's no secret that bees are in danger in North America.
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A reigning expert says they're not just something to swat: Flies pollinate plants and clean carcasses — among other things.
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Now they're transported to Florida to pollinate watermelons, to Washington State for cherries or apples, to Maine for blueberries.
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But it's also a great example of how TV is often best when disparate genres cross-pollinate each other.
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"It's really important for young people and for older people to cross-pollinate," Mr. Hawke recently told People Magazine.
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Also, use low-sugar nectar that won't distract them too much from natural nectar sources they need to pollinate.
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She wants us to cultivate the beautiful messy multifunctional, spaces that cross-pollinate and nourish us in surprising ways.
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The social side is familiar: Hosts appears on each other's shows, do events together, and cross-pollinate their audiences.
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While other bees could potentially pollinate those species, many could become extinct if these bees were to die off entirely.
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"So if bees don't pollinate those, you get zero vegetables, we would see next to nothing in the vegetable stores."
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Others will pick up the slack of pollinating wildflowers, and we have factory bees to pollinate fruits and vegetables now.
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This is creating a mismatch between when a plant flowers and when insects like bees are around to pollinate them.
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He explained that there's a bigger threat for soybeans than corn since beans pollinate more in the middle of August.
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They're incredibly important to humans — they pollinate a ton of the plants that we eat — and they deserve our appreciation.
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There are ones that live in the water and look passive, but pull animals toward them to help pollinate them.
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That's going to be hard to do without the wild bees farmers have traditionally relied on to pollinate their crops.
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Bees are relied on to pollinate significant portions of our crops, so their death represents a real threat to agriculture.
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And if you're physically creating a product, you can experiment with how different components cross-pollinate to create something new.
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They pollinate plants, consume decomposing bodies, eat the sludge in your drainpipes, damage crops, spread disease, kill spiders, hunt dragonflies.
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For those expecting anything typical, it will be underwhelming, as you are just wind in a field, helping flowers pollinate.
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Depending on the season, bees are trucked as far as 3,000 miles from Florida to California to help farmers pollinate crops.
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In places such as California, there are not enough local bees or other pollinating insects to pollinate the massive almond orchards.
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Populations of bees are declining because of the use of insecticides, he told KTRK, leaving fewer bees to pollinate certain crops.
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They found that the number of insects visiting flowers to pollinate them was 62% fewer on plots subjected to artificial light.
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Animals, mostly insects, pollinate 87% of flowering plants, according to a recent study by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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More than 70 percent of the nation's commercial honeybees are shipped to pollinate California's million acres of almond orchards every winter.
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In the U.S., they are shipped across the country to pollinate crops, and wild bees help plants reproduce across the globe.
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And that's coming back to bite (or sting) us: Bee populations, which we rely on to pollinate our crops, are plummeting.
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It's part of an ongoing trend in which honeybees—which pollinate roughly a third of the food we eat—are disappearing.
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The pesticide is also sprayed at night so that bees, which are necessary to pollinate flowers and crops, are not endangered.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded Wednesday that applying a common pesticide to certain crops harms the bees that pollinate them.
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Sitting on roughly 13 acres, the grounds have ample room to house many flowering plants — and the bees to pollinate them.
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About 2000 percent of the Adee bees are dispatched to Oregon and Washington State, where they pollinate cherry and apple trees.
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Farmers in the Midwestern United States are planting corn several weeks early so their crops can pollinate before the hotter summers.
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Next week's warm-up arrives just as the corn crop is starting to pollinate, the most critical stage for determining yield.
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A global assessment warned of dangers to the creatures that pollinate the earth's plants: bees, birds, butterflies, moths, wasps, beetles and bats.
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The first global assessment of dangers to the creatures that pollinate the earth's plants warns of declines that could threaten food supplies.
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Hsiang said goal for the app is to "cross-pollinate" Lyft riders and Starbucks coffee drinkers to bolster both companies' foot traffic.
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Those in the Asian country aren't only losing their colonies, they also don't get paid by farmers to help pollinate crops there.
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People close to the firm are divided on whether SoftBank wants to consolidate rivals or simply cross-pollinate lessons among the group.
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Plus, it could drastically alter the food chain, starting with insects and other animals that depend on the plants that bees pollinate.
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In one episode, autonomous drone bees—tiny mechanical insects that pollinate flowers—are hacked to assassinate targets, using facial recognition. Far-fetched?
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The tractor-trailers that carry hives across the country to pollinate crops are typically moving about seven million bees at a time.
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It wasn't senility melting the edges of form and letting the clowns and tragedians cross-pollinate; experience and mastery were doing that.
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She does not spray chemicals to get rid of what others would consider weeds, she says, because bees need them to pollinate.
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Many trees depend on birds, bees, butterflies, and other species to pollinate their flowers, a necessary step to the formation of fruit.
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One is that farmers in part of China now have to pollinate apple crops by hand because wild bee populations have vanished entirely.
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Tiny insect-like drones may one day pollinate plants; big ones might carry not just cargo but people in self-flying sky taxis.
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This approach lets us cross-pollinate our industries and our disciplines, so creative development and innovation become rising tides rather than isolated spikes.
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Nearly all bees feed on nectar and pollen, and thus would be negatively impacted by extreme weather, as would the plants they pollinate.
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In general, trees will pollinate first in the early spring, and you'll start to react to grasses and weeds later in the season.
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Miyako thinks his drones could one day help farmers pollinate their crops when honeybee populations are too small to do the job properly.
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Bumble bees pollinate wildflowers and about a third of U.S. crops, from blueberries to tomatoes, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
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Each year, beekeepers from around the country travel to California's almond farms, bringing more than 31 billion honeybees to pollinate the almond trees.
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Unlike coffee plants, bees that pollinate the coffee can spread to cooler areas north or south of the tropics, as well as uphill.
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Honeybees pollinate one in three crops and play a crucial role in the agricultural system, but their populations have plummeted in recent years.
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It's also bad news for all the plants that they pollinate and for humans who eat the fruits (and vegetables) of their labor.
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"Warmer temperatures allow the trees to pollinate earlier and for longer times," said Angel Waldron, the director of communications for the allergy foundation.
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Second, there are thousands of species of wild bees out there, such as bumblebees, that also pollinate flowers and crops all over the world.
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But the alternative—a future where there are no longer enough bees to pollinate our crops—is something we really don't want to imagine.
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Some have raised the possibility of sending bees or other insects into space to pollinate plants in space gardens, although there are other solutions.
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The role underlines how rarely he got to cross-pollinate his careers: his acting roles almost never take advantage of his musical performance skills.
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"Bees are important in cities as they pollinate plants which are helping clean the atmosphere," said Cestelos, manager of Apicultura, which runs beekeeping workshops.
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Though the bats that pollinate plants like tequila-producing agave haven't yet been affected, Cornelison told me that's a scenario they're working to avoid.
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One popular thread argued that attempting to cross-pollinate Twitter's ideological streams would only increase harassment while fortifying ideological polarization, rather than combating it.
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"You know what Einstein said about bees?" a hot girl says to Kareme, during a thoughtful talk about how black people pollinate the culture.
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In areas where bees have been wiped out, humans are forced to pollinate crops by hand, taking on a job that nature once managed.
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Dr. McAlister herself hates chocolate, but she is fond of the kind of flies that pollinate the cacao plant — a variety of biting midge.
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Tomatoes self-pollinate, but occasionally, Mr. Gates would come across a one-of-a-kind plant that had cross-pollinated naturally in his garden.
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Like many growers, he had been relying on rented honeybees to pollinate his cherry trees every spring, along with wild bees and other insects.
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If the safrinha planting is also pushed back, the crop could be attempting to pollinate and fill closer to the onset of dry season.
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Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat, including almonds, apples, avocados and grapes, but populations have been steadily declining since 2006.
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And over time, Facebook will look for ways to cross-pollinate ideas between its high-end Oculus headset and its low-end smartphone app.
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Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat, including almonds, apples, avocados and grapes, but bee populations have been steadily declining since 2006.
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Other crops like raspberries, blackberries, cherries, cantaloupes and apples aren't as lucrative to pollinate, but they beat the $2 per lb he gets for honey.
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The non-biting males are among the many insects that pollinate different types of plants, but are only major pollinators of one type of orchid.
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Soon, he, too, is mutilating himself after being invaded by an ADI, or drone insect, which is a futuristic bee alternative that can pollinate flowers.
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Some beekeepers have estimated their losses could reach $100,000 for the theft of hundreds of hives they rent out to pollinate almonds and other crops.
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They're trained to sniff out bacteria and tell if any larvae have been killed before the hives are shipped away to help pollinate other farms.
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Across the state, on Sanibel Island, the Sanctuary Golf Club ripped out concrete cart paths and brought in beehives to help pollinate the local wildflowers.
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He decided to go all in on bees, building up his hives, growing bees for sale and using them to pollinate crops and make honey.
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Over the last few years evidence has mounted that links the use of neonics to widespread die-offs of honey bees needed to pollinate crops.
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The decline in the bat numbers would affect "all the other animals that are dependent on the trees they pollinate - parrots, possums, koalas," she added.
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They pollinate plants, spread seeds, and eat a lot of insects, including pests like the corn earworm moth, which attacks sweet potato, spinach, squash, and watermelon.
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Environmentalists have been concerned for decades about the drastic drop in the number of pollinators: bees, butterflies, bats and other animal species who pollinate food crops.
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With a spike snapped from an orange tree, she delicately scrapes away the membrane separating the anther from the stigma in order to pollinate the flower.
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But the developers do know that the superfood does enables the bees to pollinate specific target crops that they would otherwise not necessarily be attracted to.
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Instead of cutting out school time at the expense of liberal arts — English, history, government, music and more — we should cross-pollinate each to the other.
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Without bees to pollinate crops, yields on about 35% of agricultural land worldwide would suffer, and 87 of the world's leading food crops would be affected.
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" The Problem With Commercial Beekeeping"All of our beekeepers believe in non-migratory beekeeping, which means our bees are not kept commercially in order to pollinate.
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"We tried really hard to cross-pollinate from tech, entertainment, fashion, business...women who have disrupted industries or created industries where there weren't any," Fulenwider said.
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In his speech, Bolden highlighted the potential application of the West Virginia University Mountaineers' robot to help pollinate plants in face of a shortage of honeybees.
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After Mr. Merriam finished the Southern honey season this month, he transported the hives by tractor-trailer to Maine to help pollinate the wild blueberry crop.
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The decline of wild bees and other insects that help pollinate fruits and vegetables is putting up to $22 billion in annual crop production at risk.
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Natural ecosystems, they explained, provide invaluable material services to people, from mangrove forests that protect millions from coastal flooding to wild insects that pollinate our crops.
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Trillions of bugs flitting from flower to flower pollinate some three-quarters of our food crops, a service worth as much as $21 billion every year.
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So, in the summer after a fire, more flowers were open at the same time, and bees were better able to pollinate the coneflowers, he said.
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Over many iterations, the researchers' simulations confirmed, the bats help pollinate plants that produce more nectar, even if that nectar is more watery and less sugary.
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And that's everything from what you title it to how you link over to the next video to how you cross pollinate between channels we have.
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In February and March, when California's almond trees are blooming, his bees, along with about 30bn others, are drafted to pollinate California's 1.3m acres of almond trees.
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That's bad for agriculture and the economy: bees pollinate more than $15 billion-worth of crops in the US every year, including apples, berries, cucumbers, and almonds.
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The good news is, there are some common-sense measures we can take right now to start protecting the honeybees we rely on to pollinate our crops.
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If we want to protect and restore honeybee populations—and seeing as they pollinate at least 30 percent of our crops, we should—the science is clear.
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Honey bees pollinate $15 billion worth of crops each year in the US, including more than 130 fruits and vegetables, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
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There are hundreds and hundreds of hives being brought on flatbed trucks then shipped to places like Florida for citrus pollination, then to Maine to pollinate blueberries.
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In Maryland, a state employee is training dogs to inspect hives for harmful bacteria — a crucial job as honeybees are sent around the country to pollinate crops.
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Outside the ag labs, extreme measures to address the apocalyptic world-without-bees scenario include the deployment, in China, of armies of workers to hand-pollinate crops.
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The Gentian' a bright, royal blue trumpet-shaped flower—is especially important to the farm's ecology, because it supports the bee population and bees pollinate the apple trees.
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Almond farmers, who are planting more almond trees to keep up with surging demand for the nut, are especially struggling to get enough bees to pollinate their crops.
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But that's the tip of the iceberg for our buzzy little friends, who unlike their asshole cousins—wasps—only want to pollinate plants with their fuzzy little bodies.
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Honeybees, which are hired in hives to pollinate farmlands, are also facing colony collapse disorder, which happens when a significant amount of worker bees leave behind a queen.
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Mark may seem like a jerk for destroying ants wholesale, but fire ants are an invasive species, harming native wildlife and other insects that could pollinate native flora.
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Other activities will include plant-based art projects, guessing the amount of sugar in processed products and learning how monarch butterflies help pollinate some of our food sources.
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To explore the economics, Dr. Pitts-Singer and other scientists conducted a cost-benefit analysis of using blue orchard bees and honeybees to pollinate almond trees in California.
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Given a choice through experiments, bats choose syrupy nectars, with 60 percent sugar — but the plants they pollinate in the wild produce watery nectars with 20 percent sugar.
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The appeal of honeybees is they could both pollinate the first lunar or Martian gardens and provide nutritious honey for astronauts on a long-duration deep space mission.
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Based upon immigration trends presented by economic opportunities within the islands, a wide array of Asian fighting styles arrived to the islands and quickly began to cross-pollinate.
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Jepson said yellow-faced bees can be found elsewhere in the world, but these particular species are native only to Hawaii and pollinate plant species indigenous to the islands.
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SHIBIN EL KOM, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's beekeepers say their hives are under threat because of a shortage of sugar, as are the flowers and crops that their bees pollinate.
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The costs incurred by beekeepers fighting colony death is often passed on to US farmers who rely on the bees to pollinate $15 billion worth of crops per year.
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Haskell, whose previous works have attempted to inhabit figures as diverse as Jackson Pollock, Glenn Gould, and Steve Martin, has long been interested in literature's ability to cross-pollinate.
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"But some plants want to do it on the cheap, and they have the wind pollinate," Lewis Ziska, a plant biologist with the US Department of Agriculture, tells The Verge.
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Mr. Sage said he began keeping bees to help pollinate the many community gardens on the Lower East Side, since bees work within a three-mile radius of their hive.
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One possibility is by focusing on the "ecosystem services" that nature provides — the fact that bees pollinate our crops, or wetlands help stem floods, or coral reefs help sustain fisheries.
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The first global assessment of the threats to creatures that pollinate the world's plants was released by a group affiliated with the United Nations on Friday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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He draws on his years as a waiter for similes: watering Kew's trees is like being a sommelier; the beetles that pollinate Amazonian waterlilies are like revellers flitting between nightclubs.
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By restoring beekeeping, farmers increase the numbers of local bees available not only to pollinate their crops but also to reclaim their role as an integral part of surrounding habitats.
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He discovered the value of having characters cross-pollinate, and constantly encouraged Kirby to plot stories where the Fantastic Four would meet-up with the X-Men or Spider-Man.
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Yesterday, researchers at the University of Vermont announced plans for an app that allows farmers to virtually trial methods of encouraging bees to thrive and pollinate crops on their land.
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He pointed to the rapid disappearance of insect species around the world, including those that pollinate 75% of the world's crops, as a result of climate change and other pressures.
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He pointed to the rapid disappearance of insect species around the world, including those that pollinate 75% of the world's crops, as a result of climate change and other pressures.
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Plus, the team used remote controls and only tested the drone on one kind of flower—it's not like the drone crawled inside, as would be necessary to pollinate certain crops.
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Microscopic crustaceans and tiny marine worms help pollinate a tropical seagrass called turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum), according to research led by Brigitta van Tussenbroek at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Take, for example, the species we rely on to pollinate our food crops, he pointed out: Colony collapse disorder has been a major concern for years now, as bees die off.
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Warm spring weather, now coming as early as March, has led to fruit trees flowering before bees arrive to pollinate them, for instance, or fruit and vegetables ripening at unusual times.
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One-third of our food supply owes its existence to this incredible swarm of insects, which pollinate so many of the foods we love: things like apples, strawberries, avocados and almonds.
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The thefts come as nearly 2000 percent of all commercial beehives in the U.S. — about 210 million hives — come to California and pollinate the state's more than 2000,22 acres of almonds.
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That attracts bees that can pollinate crops, Davis said, and could help to roll back some of the 10 million acres of pollinator habitat lost nationwide over the past two decades.
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This week's movie, "Wings of Life," centers on the birds and insects (the bugs may not be adorable, though the butterflies are beautiful) that help pollinate flowers and keep ecosystems thriving.
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The researchers' drone was able to pollinate a very large flower, but there's still a lot more work to do before these machines can carry out the work of bees. 3.
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This season, they hope to bring a few hives to an almond farm, which provides some lucrative extra work for beekeepers as the bees will help to pollinate the farmers' groves.
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If they did, you would find yourself in a terrifyingly fecund primordial soup in which all sorts of ideas could develop, mutate, cross-pollinate, do battle, die off and be reborn.
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The mammals, also known as fruit bats, are hugely important to the country's forests as they disperse seeds and pollinate many tree species, including eucalyptus, the sole food source of koalas.
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Insects like bees, spiders, beetles and flies are vital to the world's environment, helping to pollinate plants, naturally decompose dead wildlife and perform other tasks key to the circle of life.
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In this way, we're a lot like certain types of bats who have shaped the evolution of the plants they pollinate by making proportional judgments about what they're willing to eat.
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I feel like, if anything, maybe I can cross-pollinate some people who are familiar with my work and introduce them to the great things that are happening at the museum.
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Billions of bees are transported to California each year to pollinate almond groves, before moving on to prunes or plums, then cherries, and finally dispersing to crops like melons and blueberries.
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More convincing evidence of insectoid pollinators dates back 165 million years, to the Middle Jurassic, in the form of fossilized scorpionflies, who likely used their long proboscis to pollinate non-flowering plants.
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This apian fiesta involves up to 90% of the commercial bee population in America, leaving few bees to pollinate everything else that requires their attention, a source of controversy in agricultural circles.
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Hive losses don't affect just the nation's honey supply: Honeybees pollinate more than $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts, and vegetables a year, largely in California, according to the Department of Agriculture.
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Researchers at the USDA's Economic Research Service described the dataset as valuable and important for beekeepers and other stakeholders like the honey industry and farmers whose crops rely on honeybees to pollinate them.
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Bee Vector Technology, or BVT, has designed a system that allows bumblebees to walk through a tray of a natural, mold-fighting fungus on their way out of the hive to pollinate flowers.
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The veterans are easy to spot: they ignore all borders, cross-pollinate piles of fried noodles with a few rounds of salmon maki, and dip french fries in their sweet and sour shrimp.
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Plus, the first global assessment of dangers to the creatures that pollinate the earth's plants warned of declines that could threaten food supplies, and the comedian Aziz Ansari chronicled a trip to India.
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The wacky political satire of Dick suggested a world where teen comedies could somehow cross-pollinate with Richard Nixon takedowns, while The Iron Giant is one of the finest American movies ever made.
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Bumblebees are particularly effective pollinators because, though they seem to prefer native flowers, they will pollinate pretty much anything and can fly in lower temperatures and lower light conditions than many other insects.
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Hoping to help improve the yield of small-scale farmers, three researchers decided to figure out what kind of creatures pollinate the durians in Sulawesi, a large island at the center of Indonesia.
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She selected broccoli, golden peas, French sorrel, sonora wheat, and rapeseed as botanical test subjects, in part because these plants are multifunctional, resistant to colder temperatures, and do not require insects to pollinate them.
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To complement renewed political commitment it is clear that that to move towards the goal of the elimination of many diseases including TB, we´ll need to cross-pollinate ideas across discipline and sectors.
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To figure out which scenario was happening, his team ran evolution simulations in the field, on the computer and in the lab, assuming that the bats were choosing certain plants to pollinate over others.
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My husband read up on eggplants, learning that they are bisexual and that they self-pollinate, and when the first tiny one appeared, I named it baby ganoush and documented its growth on Instagram.
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The younger Mr. Stevens, a self-described "hard-core" science-type who teaches pineland ecology at Rowan University, has recently planted 6,000 square feet of wildflowers to attract native insects to pollinate the plants.
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If you ask bee experts why we should worry about all those honeybees and wild bees that are famously dying off, they'll often give a simple answer: because bees pollinate so many of our crops.
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Regardless, we know we have a pollinator problem, and we rely on these little insects to pollinate 70 percent of our crops, according to a report prepared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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"Additionally, most [bee] species are fuzzy, and those hairs attract pollen grains, making the bees even more likely to pollinate," says Jessica Beckham, a post-doctoral researcher studying bumblebees at the University of North Texas.
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He added that the finding may provide evidence that the iconic way moths and butterflies pollinate wildflowers today, flying from petal to petal, evolved millions of years ago with a completely different type of plant.
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Climate change may also be shrinking the bees' habitat, because of drought, rising temperatures, more storms and mismatches in timing: Plants may start to flower at times when the bees are not ready to pollinate.
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Colony collapse disorder—CCD—is complicated, and there are different theories, but most point to a multi-faceted cocktail that migratory bees (bees living off a semi-truck to pollinate large crop fields) get fed daily.
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Along with other dangers facing bees, like pesticides and the loss of forage lands, the viruses these mites carry threaten the bees we rely on to pollinate many of the fruits, nuts and vegetables we eat.
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Bees help pollinate a third of the crops we eat, including almonds, apples, avocados and grapes, and the steady decline in bee populations has caused alarm not just in the US but in Europe as well.
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"There are more jobs, new crops, which is always great for the region," said small-scale local farmer Helder Martins, whose beekeeping business has improved since almond growers started hiring his hives to pollinate their trees.
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"Even something as seemingly simple and beautiful as flowers blooming earlier can disrupt the critically important link between wildflowers and the arrival of birds, bees, and butterflies that feed on and pollinate the flowers," the USGS warns.
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Art Series aims to cross-pollinate the disciplines of performing and visual arts – and their audiences – by inviting a contemporary artist to create a site specific work of art at New York City Ballet's Lincoln Center home.
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If the technology can be adapted to fight a multitude of infections, experts hope it can provide one solution for the array of problems facing bees, which pollinate about one-third of food in the United States.
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Stefani surprised Shelton's fans with a performance of their duet at one of his recent tour stops, and "that was a really cool thing to be able to get up and cross-pollinate in another world," she says.
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Many species of wild bees, butterflies and other critters that pollinate plants are shrinking toward extinction, and the world needs to do something about it before our food supply suffers, a new United Nations scientific mega-report warns.
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Natural ecosystems, they explained in extensive detail, provide invaluable material services to people, from mangrove forests that protect millions from coastal flooding to wetlands that help purify our drinking water to insects that pollinate our fruits and vegetables.
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In the space, works by nationally known artists like Martine Syms and Nastassja E. Swift are roommates with emerging and established Pacific Northwest artists Marita Dingus and Henry Jackson Spieker to cross-pollinate Blackness both physically and conceptually.
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This accounts for anywhere from 70 to 100 percent to all colonies there, which might be moved multiple times to pollinate different crops (creating a whole new kind of hazard to motorists, when bees spill out onto the highway).
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They learned, among other things, where most of the country's honey bees go in the late winter (California, to pollinate almond trees), and where they go in the summer (North Dakota, the number two colony state in the country).
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In addition to playing, writing, and reporting about games, my other hobby is closely tracking the film rights to comic book franchises and how it impacts the ability for media conglomerates to cross-pollinate characters in a shared cinematic universe.
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Because Lee encouraged Kirby and Ditko to cross-pollinate their narratives, Marvel Comics started to gain the cohesion of a shared universe, an innovation in popular culture that would later be replicated when Hollywood producers shaped the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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"Bees are said to pollinate one out of every three bites of food," said Emma Taliaferro, a program associate at City Growers, an organization that uses its two urban farms to teach young New Yorkers about agriculture and food systems.
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In a greenhouse at West Virginia University, a machine called the BrambleBee is learning to roll around pollinating blackberry bushes, knocking their flowers around (blackberry flowers self-pollinate, so bees or robots just have to jostle them to spread around the pollen).
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For the last ten years, London's Hackney Wick neighborhood has been a creative epicenter, drawing in array of performers, craftspeople, musicians, illustrators, and many other creatives and artisans who work and cross-pollinate in this area of light industrial units and messy yards.
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Some species will benefit; others will lose out: Even something as seemingly simple and beautiful as flowers blooming earlier can disrupt the critically important link between wildflowers and the arrival of birds, bees, and butterflies that feed on and pollinate the flowers.
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According to the U.S.D.A.'s Cost of Pollination Survey, an annual tracking of honeybee health and pollination costs that started in 29, 43 million colonies were used to pollinate almond trees in 24; an estimated two million colonies were needed in 2000.
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Detasseling corn was a rite of passage in this Nebraska town: In order to cross-pollinate top-notch seed corn in those days, you needed people, lots of them, to walk through the fields to pull corn tassels manually from individual rows.
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Water still courses through streams and seeps into aquifers, bees still pollinate our roof-deck zucchini plants, and an inestimable number of raccoons and opossums thrive in perpetual gratitude for our uniquely human habit of throwing garbage into convenient dispensers lining the sidewalks.
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Worry not, comfortable-but-not-loaded urban dwellers: Check out the affordable, $1,000/month "Japanese-style" sleeper pods (perhaps like these?) at Haven, a Venice, California "wellness community" that touts community-building, yoga, and "the freedom to 'cross-pollinate ideas'" among its benefits.
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We rely heavily on bees and other species to pollinate our plants, and though there isn't global data, there have been enough local die-offs to spark widespread concern, according to a report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.
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Ray Sage, 65, is an electrician who says he began keeping bees to help pollinate the many community gardens on the Lower East Side (bees work within a three-mile radius of their hives.) He strapped two buzzing boxes to the rack of his bicycle.
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The Cost of Pollination survey, which tracked how farmers pay for honeybees to pollinate their crops, was suspended in 2018, and the Honey survey -- which gathers information on honey production -- has been scaled back to cut data collection on beekeeping operations that have less than five colonies.
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Their abundance, variety (there could be as many as 30 million species), and ubiquity mean insects play a foundational role in food webs and ecosystems: from the bees that pollinate the flowers of food crops like almonds to the termites that recycle dead trees in forests.
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Bees get a lot of attention here for two reasons: They're highly efficient pollinators — a single hive can house 40,000 bees, and a hive of just 20,000 can pollinate an entire acre — and they're under threat from climate change, agricultural practices like monoculture, and, chiefly, pesticides.
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The world's largest retailer applied for six patents last year on drones that aim to prevent damage to crops, control pest attacks on farms and cross-pollinate plants, according to U.S. Patents and Trademark Office documents that were made public last week and seen by Reuters.
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Now when the part of Claudia came up in "The Americans," Joe and Joel were concerned about casting someone who's so identified with "Justified," and Landgraf said, "That's part of the FX thing, we love to cross pollinate," put Walton on "Sons of Anarchy" as Venus Van Damme, you know.
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Reports of people apprehended for immigration violations pollinate the news daily: a father arrested right after dropping his daughter off at school; a battered woman arrested in the courthouse where she had gone to seek protection from her violent boyfriend; an immigrant kept in a detention center despite having a brain tumor.
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Bauhaus teachers included some of the most important artists of the modern era — Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, to name a few — many of whom fled Germany after the school's closure under pressure from the Nazis, leading them to pollinate Bauhaus ideas throughout the world, primarily in the United States.
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The delicate, colorful insects that help to pollinate many an English garden may not live very long (the monarch butterfly has a life span of two to six weeks), but knowing how well their colonies are faring and how many are flitting around can be crucial indicators of a calamitous or a thriving environment.
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Normally, beekeeper Jue would be tending to his bee colonies now to prepare them to pollinate apricots in Turpan in March, before they go on a flower-chasing journey starting from pear orchards of Korla, the No.2 city of Xinjiang, in spring to Ruoqiang to collect nectar from the famous red dates in May.
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And for obvious reasons our romanticization of nature feels urgent in a way it didn't even a few years ago, an acknowledgment of the terrifying Antarctic iceberg breaks, the perennially disappearing honeybees and all the flowers they won't be around to pollinate — facts only heightened by our recent withdrawal from the Paris climate accord.
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And to create a social experiment where we can cross-pollinate as many of the most cutting-edge artists, crews, collectives, and creatives in an environment where they could be inspired to learn from each other and share without it being forced or phoned in, and give access to anyone in the world to peek in and watch.
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"Declines in your common sparrow or other little brown bird may not receive the same attention as historic losses of bald eagles or sandhill cranes, but they are going to have much more of an impact," she told the NYT, noting that birds often help spread seeds, rid the area of any pests, pollinate flowers, and regenerate forests.
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More than 300 of Florida's 4,000 registered beekeepers move their hives into the state for the winter—"like people from New Jersey," Hayes says—and then, as spring approaches, pack them on trucks, 480 hives per semi, and head west and north to pollinate almonds, cherries, apples, blueberries, cranberries, vine fruits, pit fruits, onions, legumes—over $15 billion of US crops a year.
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