pollinators we wouldn't have fruit, cotton, or coffee. There are 4,000 species of bees. Most of you probably know this but there is a queen bee that stays in the comb. It can also be better for your health. They pollinate with flowers or plants. Speaking of plants they can be male or female even be both. . Now fiction movies aren't usually informational but the Bee Movie is a good movie to watch about pollination. There are many plants that we wouldn't have if bees,…
The hive detectives: Chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe. Illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dave Hackenburg, a beekeeper, is horrified when he discovers that many of his bees disappeared. Those bees are the first ones to die in the mysterious calamity which still affects the honey bees today. Without bees there would be no fruit and vegetables; there would be no honey or beeswax. The bee wranglers and the bee scientists are trying to understand the…
Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman, 2000) is an obligatory ectoparasite of the honeybee (Apis mellifera L). It caused severe damage to populations of this species world-wide in recent years (Le Conte et al., 2010). The direct negative effect of the Varroa on honeybee has well documented (Weinberg and Madel, 1985; Daly et al., 1988, Wienands and Madel, 1988; Marcangeli et al., 1992; Bowen-Walker and Gunn, 2001; Contzen et al., 2004; Yang and Cox-Foster, 2005; Belaïd and Doumandji, 2010;…
The Honeybee (Apis mellifera) is an astounding insect that pollinates on a global scale and thus ensures the prosperity of plant life and animal life alike. However, its baffling how this insect maneuvers its tiny self against earth’s gravity and wind resistance contrary to its considerably small size. The average female Honeybee (pictured above) weighs in at 277 to 290 mg at adult emergence. As their wings are almost paper thin, they still manage to support the bee’s un-aerodynamic anatomy and…
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. In case you missed all of the news…
research scientist in Brazil imported some bees from Africa to breed with European honeybees. African bees displayed greater resistance to disease and produced more honey than their European cousins. The researcher's goal was to create a cross-bred bee that would be productive under tropical conditions. However, 26 swarms, including queens, were accidentally released into the wild. The bees began breeding with native honeybees, and their descendants quickly expanded…
When the honeybee lands on a flower and that flower has pollen which is usually located somewhere near or inside the flower, the bee sucks up the pollen, and get the pollen on its body, and as the bee goes to another flower, that pollen mixes with the new flower and then seeds are produced and from there the flower starts to grow when that seed takes root somewhere. Without being pollinated, the crops cannot grow…
Killer bees have killed many people because they are easily alarmed by loud sounds or even people going near them. Killer bees are too aggressive because they are easily threatened and according to the article “How do killer bees kill” “if a killer bee colony senses a threat, on the other hand, the victim could be stung around 2,000 times.” When killer bees feel threatened they chase people or animals up to fifty yards so they do not play around. According to wikipedia “they have killed some…
Symbiosis or a symbiotic relationship is a close a relationship/interaction between two organisms of different species. The three main types of symbiosis are mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Mutualism is the symbiotic relationship where both the species benefits from the other. For example, clownfish live in sea anemones and because of this the clownfish eventually become immune to the paralyzing sting of the sea anemone. The sea anemone gives the clownfish a home and protects the…
Although bees are poisonous, the speaker presents a maxim on how a functional society should interact with a swarm of them because he realizes his dependence for their pollinating skill. The speaker states that he needs the bees in order to survive by performing ritualistic gestures to have them intermingle within his society: “Throw gravel over them and say:…/ Never to the woodland wild may you fly!” The speaker suggests using gravel against the swarm because the bees will work together to…