nectar
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They produced a bumper amount of honey this year - enough for 150 jars of the sweet nectar - and local school children are helping design the labels.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Warm, dry spring weather improves a nest’s chance of survival as it ensures a good nectar supply for the queen to develop her ovaries and good prey populations for her to feed the brood.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
These included the date of the first flower, flower size, nectar sugar, flowering time, and the distance between flowers' anthers, or the pollen-producing part of the flower, and the stigma, the structure that receives pollen.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The nectar return has to make the expenditure of energy worthwhile.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
In England someone wondered what happened when bees made use of nectar from plants treated with systemics.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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She also hasn’t worked with N. khasiana specifically, and nectar components vary between species—a fact she can personally confirm from tasting the nectars of several pitcher plants.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 29, 2023
Researchers wondered whether pollinators might be deterred by such nectars, but they discovered the opposite.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2023
Look one way and you’ll see Gina mango nectars and Calamansi fruit sodas.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
It can also make luscious, ambrosial nectars that are syrupy sweet while still lively and refreshing, which can likewise grow more complex for decades.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
After the Georgia legislature declared a prohibition against alcoholic beverages in 1907, Papa quit making or drinking beer—he believed in being law-abiding—and the churches started using fruit nectars instead of wine.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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