Bees don't have knees as we think of knees. Daniel Prudek/iStock/Thinkstock A more obscure expression, "the bee's knees" means something is excellent. Magnificent. Top shelf. But do bees have knees, and if so, are they great? Like all insects, bees have six sections to their leg...
Most people learn about pterosaurs from the movies, but unfortunately these depictions do little to capture the diversity of these amazing creatures. The one in "King Kong" (1933), for example, was virtually the same as the one portrayed nearly 70 years later in "Jurassic Park III" (2001...
Sometimes, a beekeeper will capture a swarm that has gathered on someone's property. Beekeepers also stock their hives with queens and packages of bees purchased from a bee supplier. Disappearing Bees: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) CCD appears to affect large-scale, commercial beekeeping ...
Urban ecosystems can sustain populations of wild bees, partly because of their rich native and exotic floral resources. A better understanding of the urban bee diet, particularly at the larval stage, is necessary to understand biotic interactions and feeding behaviour in urban ecosystems, and to ...
How Utricularia Capture and Digest Prey First, the prey tickles the trigger hair. Lightning fast, the bladder opens a trap door and sucks the animal inside, where digestive juices dissolve it. The larger meals don't fit into the bladder; they get caught like an animal in a foot trap and...
Lawns filled with beds of vegetables and wildflowers are more than a trendy landscaping project – they promote an eco-friendly lifestyle. With the pollinator population threatened, many homeowners are making their yards ahaven for beesand butterflies. There’s no better way to do so than gettin...
Pollenity: A company that makes products that serve not only as infrastructure for beekeeping, but also as IoT-enabled devices. For example, Pollenity’sBeebotuses sensors to capture data about important hive events, and theiruHivesystem is a fully-functioning Langstroth hive equipped with sensors...
Dave popped the tailgate (后挡板) and the top open,___that the young red-railed hawk would get the message and___. But the bird didn’t move. In need of expert help, Dave___Raven Ridge Wildlife Center for assistance. Luckily, one of their capture transport volunteers was already...
L. Targeted sequence capture provides insight into genome structure and genetics of male sterility in a gynodioecious diploid strawberry Fragaria vesca ssp. bracteata (Rosaceae). G3 (Bethesda) 3, 1341–1351 (2013). 60. Wang, J. P. et al. Sequencing papaya X and Y-h chromosomes reveals ...
Pushbacks will split lines for you, tornatoads will pluck plants on your behalf, mini-deer will process and poop out new materials, and bees will replant mushrooms. With that, our tag line was born “Capture creatures, and add them to your assembly line”. Atrio: The Dark Wild is out...