Bees, bees, bees
About Bees
Honeybees live in highly complex colonies of as many as 100,000 bees; most of these bees are worker or unfertile females who do most of the work in the beehive. The work includes gathering nectar, water and pollen and feeding and cleaning the queen. The workers also cool or heat the beehive when needed fee d the developing larvae and use beeswax to fortify hive cells. When the bee hive is busy during a typical peak season, the worker bee will live for only six week before dying from exhaustion. The handful of male bees found in the beehive is the drone. Some of the characteristics of the male drone include big wings and large eyes. The drone does not perform any work, instead they fly around to seek mating opportunities …show more content…
Some critical bee preservation strategies that have been undertaken to maintain biodiversity include; supporting bee keeping; limiting the amount of pollinators such as chemical fertilizers insecticides and fungicides use and ensuring the existence of sufficient food supply to encourage pollinators. This is in addition to raising awareness amongst all stakeholders in the industry to encourage good farming practices and maintenance of public spaces and gardens. A case study on improve bee and biodiversity co-existence should cover activities such as beekeeping activity, land management and information and education.
1. Information and education – information dissemination amongst all the stakeholders should provide a great platform to learn more about the relationship between the bees and biodiversity. The critical areas of study include finding the cause of current bee mortality and the benefits of preserving bees and other pollinating insects. On the other hand, the sensitization process should include children education, dispersing communication education, creating and enabling education infrastructure and organizing periodic workshops and
About Bees
Honeybees live in highly complex colonies of as many as 100,000 bees; most of these bees are worker or unfertile females who do most of the work in the beehive. The work includes gathering nectar, water and pollen and feeding and cleaning the queen. The workers also cool or heat the beehive when needed fee d the developing larvae and use beeswax to fortify hive cells. When the bee hive is busy during a typical peak season, the worker bee will live for only six week before dying from exhaustion. The handful of male bees found in the beehive is the drone. Some of the characteristics of the male drone include big wings and large eyes. The drone does not perform any work, instead they fly around to seek mating opportunities …show more content…
Some critical bee preservation strategies that have been undertaken to maintain biodiversity include; supporting bee keeping; limiting the amount of pollinators such as chemical fertilizers insecticides and fungicides use and ensuring the existence of sufficient food supply to encourage pollinators. This is in addition to raising awareness amongst all stakeholders in the industry to encourage good farming practices and maintenance of public spaces and gardens. A case study on improve bee and biodiversity co-existence should cover activities such as beekeeping activity, land management and information and education.
1. Information and education – information dissemination amongst all the stakeholders should provide a great platform to learn more about the relationship between the bees and biodiversity. The critical areas of study include finding the cause of current bee mortality and the benefits of preserving bees and other pollinating insects. On the other hand, the sensitization process should include children education, dispersing communication education, creating and enabling education infrastructure and organizing periodic workshops and