Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
eine Blüte anfliegen
English translation:
visit a blossom/flower
Added to glossary by
Veronika Neuhold
Oct 4, 2019 20:47
4 yrs ago
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German term
eine Blüte anfliegen
German to English
Science
Botany
biodiversity
Im Herbst 2017 konnten konventionelle Landwirte eine sensationelle Hybridkürbisernte einbringen, weil viele nektarsammelnde Insekten aufgrund des immer schwächer werdenden Wildpflanzenangebots die Kürbisblüten auf den Hybridkürbispflanzen verstärkt **anflogen**.
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It seems that the usual expression here is "fly to a flower":
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="bees fly to flowers"&lr=&...
Can you confirm this, or is there a special term?
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It seems that the usual expression here is "fly to a flower":
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="bees fly to flowers"&lr=&...
Can you confirm this, or is there a special term?
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +3 | visit a flower | Alexandra Hirsch (X) |
4 +4 | were increasingly attracted to a [blossom] | Lancashireman |
4 +1 | significantly increased their visits to ... | Michele Fauble |
3 +1 | an unusually high number of pollinating insects were attracted to the blossom | Ramey Rieger (X) |
4 | fly to a flower | Cillie Swart |
3 +1 | flock to blossoms | Michael Martin, MA |
Proposed translations
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17 hrs
Selected
visit a flower
One way of expressing it in non-technical texts is "visit" ("besuchen").
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Anne Schulz
: with credit to Björn
47 mins
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neutral |
Lancashireman
: Looking at asker's context as quoted above, how would you envisage this fitting in? "increasingly visited a flower"? // This was a reposting of an answer submitted three hours earlier.
1 day 6 hrs
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agree |
Gordon Matthews
: How about "many nectar-collecting insects visited the (pumpkin) flowers increasingly often"?
1 day 22 hrs
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agree |
John Speese
: "Visit" is what I would use too. It's fairly common in this context.
2 days 4 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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1 hr
German term (edited):
eine [Blüte] verstärkt anflogen
were increasingly attracted to a [blossom]
The mode of approach (flying, walking or otherwise) is not at issue here.
(Re 'flocking': more appropriate to sheep or to fans at a large sporting or musical event)
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https://www.google.com/search?q=bees * attracted to the "&oq...
(Re 'flocking': more appropriate to sheep or to fans at a large sporting or musical event)
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Note added at 1 hr (2019-10-04 22:16:34 GMT)
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https://www.google.com/search?q=bees * attracted to the "&oq...
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Björn Vrooman
: It's all good. Next up: trying to figure out how many answerers "visited" the d-box.
53 mins
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Thanks, Björn. Sorry if I sounded overly sceptical in the DB.
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agree |
philgoddard
: There are many ways to say this. I agree about flocking, which doesn't sound quite right to me.
12 hrs
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agree |
Daniel Arnold (X)
: absolutely. were strongly attracted to ....
16 hrs
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agree |
Armorel Young
1 day 21 hrs
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Thanks. The German native-speaker asker went for the somewhat unnatural-sounding alternative.
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+1
10 hrs
an unusually high number of pollinating insects were attracted to the blossom
A slightly different structure would fill the bill, I do believe. For me, the issue lies with 'verstärkt'.
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Lancashireman
: Thanks for the support. The Germans decided to keep this one among themselves.
9 days
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+1
14 hrs
significantly increased their visits to ...
Or ‘greatly increased ...’
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Lancashireman
: OK, it's official. The insects "visited the flowers" (and paid their respects), but you got there first.
9 days
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thanks
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14 hrs
fly to a flower
I agree with this simple interpretation.
Reference:
https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=eine+Bl%C3%BCte+anfliegen
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25 mins
flock to blossoms
Nectar-gathering insects were increasingly flocking to pumpkin blossoms..
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You need a vivid verb here that mirrors the German, not some workaround. Contrary to commenters, "flocking" works perfectly well with insects:
"Insects are flocking to late-summer flowers."
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/gardeners-world/20190822/2816...
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Note added at 3 days 39 mins (2019-10-07 21:26:34 GMT)
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You need a vivid verb here that mirrors the German, not some workaround. Contrary to commenters, "flocking" works perfectly well with insects:
"Insects are flocking to late-summer flowers."
https://www.pressreader.com/uk/gardeners-world/20190822/2816...
Peer comment(s):
agree |
Lancashireman
: Especially if they were "shepherded" there: https://www.proz.com/kudoz/german-to-english/agriculture/671...
9 days
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Discussion
As an aside, more than one link below points to a science paper, unless that is also considered "non-technical."
Except for the last one, all of them are in reference to "flower visits." Here's the USDA's version of a children's book:
"Pollinators visit flowers to collect pollen or the sweet liquid called nectar. As they visit the flowers, the pollinators brush against the reproductive parts of the flower, dropping the pollen from another flower they recently visited."
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs142p2_0...
Indiana Department of Natural Resources:
"Clump plants so the bees can find and visit many flowers in one location"
https://www.in.gov/dnr/entomolo/files/ep-Gardening_for_Honey...
U.S. National Park Service:
"Another way many species of bees can coexist in a small space is to visit only certain species of flowers. About one-fourth of the Park’s bees are such specialists, visiting only one species or a group of closely related species of flowers."
https://www.nps.gov/pinn/learn/nature/bees.htm
This may not be the only instance of anfliegen in Veronika's book, so I think you can keep this as an option.
Best
"In restored sites, plants produced more flowers and attracted more visits from pollinating animals, which was linked with the production of more fruit."
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38800967
South East Wales:
"Standard pollinator observation techniques can be used to quantify visits to flowers, which provide a measure of the pollinator availability."
https://www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/app/uploads/2016/12/GIAPP.p...
University of Greenwich:
"Pollinator visits to flowers were much more frequent than by robbers but visits correlated negatively with nectar alkaloid concentration and declined sharply between 200-380ppm."
https://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/17458/3/17458 STEVENSON_Dis...
Thus, I think yours is much more common, though at least this suggestion is not that unusual.
Best wishes
The point about "approach" was that it really depends on the sentence (it sounds fine in the Guardian article).
As for visit (preferrably as a noun), here's the Botanical Society of the British Isles:
"Clearly pollinator visits to flowers of S. romanzoffiana during our time on Colonsay were infrequent."
https://archive.bsbi.org.uk/BSBINews106.pdf
Or The London Beekeepers' Association:
"It is estimated that honey bees need to fly 55,000 miles and make 4 million visits to flowers to produce a single pot of honey."
http://www.lbka.org.uk/forage.html
The Telegraph:
"...the former detective who invented the technique, have now used it to analyse patterns of visits to flowers made by foraging bees."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/334836...
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to visit flowers (and pay their respects) - hmm...
to approach a flower (and then back off when rebuffed) ...
"approaches a flower"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/21/bees-flo...
"visits a flower"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_is...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy66fg8/articles/zx4kt...
In your case, "frequent" as a verb may be an option:
"There are a large number of small solitary bees that also frequent domestic gardens e.g. masonary bees, mining bees etc."
https://www.trafford.gov.uk/residents/environment/pest-contr...
"Researchers have therefore been analysing which pollinators frequent certain crops..."
https://thefruitgrower.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/magazines/ma...
Or frequent visitors (to combine two of the suggestions above):
"While honeybees were the most frequent visitors to flowers of all species,
native bees made more visits to common than rare species..."
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/pls/portallive/docs/1/42749696.PD...
Cf. https://getgardening.richardjacksonsgarden.co.uk/love-lavend...
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