Posts Tagged: Proceedings of the Royal Society B
UC Davis Researchers Zero in on Sugar Water in Hummingbird Feeders
(Proceedings of the Royal Society B) DAVIS--If you're like many Americans, you've set up a...
Calypte anna (Anna's hummingbird) nectaring blossoms. (Photo by Scott Logan, Wild Wings Ecology)
Calypte anna (Anna’s hummingbird) sipping sugar water from feeder. (Photo by Scott Logan, Wild Wings Ecology)
Experimental feeders at a field site in Winters, Calif. The researchers assigned hummingbird feeders to one of three treatments: (1) access by both hummingbirds and insects (open feeders), (2) restricted access by birds but access by insects allowed (caged feeders, 1.5 cm square mesh), or (3) restricted access by both birds and insects (feeders bagged using gallon paint strainer bags), with two replicates of each treatment set up at each site. (Photo by Casie Lee)
The Untold Story About Parasites, Flowers and Bees
Who knew? UC Riverside entomologist Peter Graystock and colleagues Dave Goulson and William...
A honey bee foraging on a pansy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, and a honey bee, Apis mellifera, share a purple coneflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, heads toward a pansy blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)