Michael Heile Nelson 3 English 11 Honors April 29 2016 Honeybee Population Crisis Bees are very crucial to our society. They pollinate over $14 billion worth of crops each year (Ballaro and Warhol). With that amount of money you could buy almost 15 new Viking stadiums each year. They are so valuable to our society and if the bee population goes down, the human population will soon follow. Although many people are unaware of the shrinking bee population, scientific evidence has proven it to be a major problem.…
I became interested in beekeeping while observing the behavior of bees while working in my garden over several days. The bees were working to increase pollination among the plants in my garden which resulted in an increase in yields from my fruit trees and vegetables. According to the American Beekeeping…
Mosltey all the bees in the hives collect honey. A lot of the time bees do their job in groups. My three most favorite bees are the Bumbnle bee, the Carter bee, and the Yellow faced bumble bee. The bumble bee is a member of the bee genus bombos in the family of apidae and the scientific name for this bee is bombus. The Carter bee is a speice of the bumble bee, you can find them mostley in europe in a wide vierty such as meadows, pastures, waste, gorund, ditches, embankments, roads, and feilds margins, the scientific name for this bee is bumbus pascuorum.m…
In addition, pollination by honey bees contributes to 15 billion dollars of agriculture production in the United States. In the last several years, honey bees have received global attention due to the losses attributed to many different factors.…
As I have grown up, a large majority of my time has been spent helping my parents and grandparents with our family farm. Along the way I have learned many important aspects of living a successful agriculturally driven life. I am the youngest of four siblings so while I was in high school my brother graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in environmental science. A short while after his commencement my brother began to grow an interest in the art of beekeeping. Having hives full of bees started off as a hobby, but not long after he partnered with my parents and began an entrepreneurship called Nate’s Nectar, selling natural raw honey.…
This can be done for the honey they produce, for pollinating nearby plants or crops, or simply to have them around. Beekeeping records go back as far as 7,000…
Bee’s are a very vital part to our world, and how it functions. They are the reason our flowers grow, and why the world has life. They keep the world green using a process called pollination. The bees do this by taking some of the pollen out of the the flower they get their nectar from and sprinkle it onto other flowers to make them grow. As you know the way that we get fresh air is from the trees through a process called photosynthesis.…
One can take a deep breath almost anymore and enjoy the smells around them, but what would happen if that was taken away? Once can go outside and see trees, flowers, and bushes surrounding them, but what if that was taken away? What would society do if there was no plants to make oxygen? How would we survive? Today, society takes bees for granted and so they started capturing them and keeping them to pollinate and make honey and instead of using pollen, beekeepers started using substitutes to feed the bees.…
Bees are amazing creatures and there are many health benefits to the bee pollen they collect, these amazing creatures are a huge part of the environment and without them we would be lost. Bee pollen contains a large amount of anti-oxidants and when they return to the hive they are providing the other bees with a huge source of protein for them to live from. The pollen is higher in protein than a great deal of other food sources and is incredibly good for you. The pollen is collected on the bee's legs as they go from flower to flower and when they return to the hive the pollen can be collected.…
Honey bees play a significant role in the production of the various crops humans consume on a daily basis. Without the pollination services of the honeybees, 35 percent of the human diet would disappear. The bees assist in producing fruits, vegetables, almonds, hay, cotton, and other crops which provide nutrients that are necessary for survival. However in recent years, bees have been dying at an alarmingly high rate. This is a problem that must be acknowledged and addressed because it is creating a rapid decline in crop production.…
Building Your Own Bee Farm: Everything You Need to Know Meta Description: Keeping bees may not be for everyone, but if you want to get in on saving the little pollinators – here’s how. Meta Keywords: Building a bee farm, Bee farming, Bee keeping, Keeping bees Everything You Need to Build Your Own Bee Farm Bees have been in the news in the past few years, much more than at anytime before except for maybe the killer bee scares of the eighties and nineties.…
Extensions of the Honey Bees Honeybees help produce 35% of all food in the world and have been around for millions of years. Yet, in recent decades, the honeybee population has been decreasing dramatically. On average a beekeeper will report 20% of annual losses, up to 90% on some occasions. Researchers have found that several factors have been causing the decrease in the honeybee population; a loss of habitat, introduction of new chemicals into the ecosystem, increase in the hive size and the rapid spread of diseases. Loss of Habitat…
It is reported that in the United States, more than one- third of crops rely on bees. Only if crops such as almonds, peaches, soybeans, apples, pears, cherries, cranberries, strawberries, melons get bees’ pollination, can they bear fruit. In the past, in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China, bees were extinct as the result of overuse of farm chemicals. If they had not disappeared, a hive of bees could have pollinated millions of flowers every day. However, a hundred people can only help pollinate ten pear trees.…
Unlike honey bees, estimates of the pollination services they render to agro ecological…
Some species including honey bees, bumblebees, and stingless bees live socially in colonies. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae. Bee pollination is important both ecologically and commercially;…