African bee

Humans should take action against killer bees because they kill and injure too many people and they are too aggressive. 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 1,000 humans, with victims receiving ten times more stings than from European honey bees.” Killer bees are attacking people in every state there have been sightings of people being killed in Texas, Phoenix, and Arizona.…

decline in bee populations. Beekeepers are used to a certain amount of bees and hives dying off but the winter and spring of 2006-2007 brought about the most precipitous decline in decades. The historical rate for overwintering losses is 10-15% but from 2007-2011 this rate has been 28-33% (The Situation, n.d.). This event from 2007 has been coined as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and affecting as many as 35 states and causing colony losses as high as 80-100% for some beekeepers the disorder…

Two of the main honey manufacturers and distributors in Canada are McCormick Canada (Billy Bee), and BeeMaid. McCormick Canada’s Headquarters is located in London, Ontario, and is division of McCormick & Company, Inc. based in Baltimore, MD USA. It is the largest spice, seasoning and specialty food and flavour business in the Country (McCormick in Canada, n.d.). They offer a range of food products under the brands Billy Bee, Club House, Doyon (Honey brand in Quebec), etc.. BeeMaid is a Canadian…

A real-life example of how a honeypot can be used to a network administrator's advantage is as follows: one of the first ever honeypots was spawned in 1991 to defend against a group of Dutch hackers who attempted to break into a system at Bell Labs. The incident spanned over five months and was documented by Bell Labs employee Bill Cheswick. The intruder referred to as Berferd was monitored by Cheswick; Cheswick noted “I could buy them some time to lock down machines, build tools, and trace…

This issue is extremely important towards the outcome of our future yet not too many people know about what 's happening. It’s not too late for the bees if we start making some major changes in the near future.One of them being the reduction of the use of pesticides. Pesticides alone do most of the damage on the bee population. Bee populations would slowly start to increase once pesticide toxicity doesn’t become a problem anymore. Also, climate change is a major factor to the bees. World Leaders…

10 Reasons to hate about summer! Bees Bees are the only insects that make food for humans but they are still a reason to hate summer. Yes, we love their honey but we hate their sting. To be stung by a bee is not fun at all in fact it hurts. A bee will follow you around if you wear a perfume or cologne they like, especially if it is a flowery scent. When this happens you are not supposed to swat at it, but let’s face it we all do it. To avoid being stung by a bee you should not wear bright…

The honeybees with which Americans are most familiar are European honeybees that began arriving in the New World with the Spanish explorers. In the centuries since, honeybees from the Old World comprised virtually all of the bees kept for pollination and honey production. In the 1950s, a 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…

Among the farm settlements sampled, Agbofiati had the highest number of respondents 18 (36%) while Akufo had the least number of respondents 4 (8%). This may be due to the fact that these settlement respondents (18) resided in forest clustered areas in close proximity with the area while the least number of respondents found in Gbekuba (4) settlement area had gradually transformed into semi-urban areas, thus limiting the number of people that could be involved in meliponiculture. Farm…

their physical and genetic attributes. Due to the invasion of African honeybees in North America, hybridization has increased between African and European honeybees. The hypothesis is that the four unknown bees are hybridized with a European mother and an African father. The wing-lengths of European, African, and unknown bees were measured, and the mtDNA of eight different bees were subjected to gel electrophoresis. The results showed that African bees were small with one band of mtDNA, European…

Why Honey Bees Affect Agriculture You may see a bee buzzing by, landing on a flower and not even think of the huge effect they have on ‘the world’ around us. Today, I will be talking about how and why honey bees affect Agriculture. The first reason is that honey bees are a big part of pollination everywhere around the world. Providing pollen to farmers' crops and other wild plants. The second reason is that honey bees make honey. Providing food for us and other animals. For example Bears.…