As we can see from previous paragraphs, bees help us live a healthier life without the need to use any chemical in the food we consume on daily basis. Therefore, it is important for us to be inform and worried as to why many bees are vanishing. Our bee colonies are going through a massive breakdown which was discovered in 2006. Near the end of 2006, well known commercial beekeeper David Hackenberg stepped outside to supervise his 3,000 beehives and was surprised to find that 400 of his hives…
for the bee population. Starting at six days old, young bees start to feed younger larvae in their hive. The adult bees do other tasks such as scavenging for the other honeybees. In a hive, there is no simple hierarchy, unlike human beings who have business hierarchies for large businesses. Each bee does something to benefit another bee. The queen may be valuable, because there is only one in each hive, but the queen does not rule the hive. Worker bees send orders by signaling to the queen bee…
sole topic. In the beginning of my research, I feared I would not have enough information to get 8-10 pages, so I did multiple topics related to the honey bee. I found out later that there is a multitude of special behaviors exhibited by honey bees, and I would have had more than enough to make an 8-10-page paper solely on the topic of honey bee behaviors. 3.…
tiny creatures, we would suffer a great loss in produce. Throughout this paper, we will explore what a honeybee is, it’s job, and how we can stop its extinction. The western honey bee is a member of the Apidae family. There are over 20,000 known species of bees; the western honey bee is the most popular of the bee species. The western honeybee is a small insect covered in black and yellow stripes. Honeybees can come in many different colors depending on their species, but most bees are…
social media and covering all types of products lately. Brands, such as Honey Nut Cheerios with their disappearing Buzz the bee mascot, have recently began encouraging citizens of the world to contribute to saving honeybees so they will not face extinction. However, are the companies misinforming society on the real status of the bees? On the Cheerios’ website, two specifically bee-related facts are mentioned before they state “more than two thirds of the world’s crop species rely on…
Aethina Tumida, Small Hive Beetles (SHB), is native to sub-Saharan Africa, and it is a regular pest to the African subspecies of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus. Be that as it may, the beetle has been located outside of its natural habitat, where it is known to cause extensive damage to the plethora of colonies of the European subspecies of honey bees. In 1996, the small hive beetle was first sighted in the United States across a variety of states. There is no clear answer to how…
the only members of these four bee groups that aren’t social. Honeybees are responsible for cross-pollination, which is the transfer of pollen from one plant…
specialized forager bee with her tube-like tongue sipps up nectar from the flowers. As she does that, her hairy body traps pollen and carries it between flowers helping plants to reproduce - this process is called pollination. A honeybee visits between 100 and 1500 flowers before her honey stomach is full. Yes, honey stomach. Bees have two stomachs: one for digesting and one that is used as a honey sac, where the enzymes begin to break nectar down into simple sugars. A tiny bee fills up her…
caused the highest level of hive decrease since 2006. The phenomena of CCD has generated a large amount of public interest, in turn increasing interest in honey bee management or beekeeping worldwide. This interest has also led to an increase in research. Wild…
The lesson called Home Grown Caterpillars is a lesson about the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly (life cycle process) while creating a three dimensional piece of art to express idea, experience, or story. The story associated with this lesson is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The art piece is a replica of the caterpillar during a butterfly’s life cycle made out of grass seed, soil, stockings, pipe cleaners, and googly eyes. This lesson would be considered an art enhanced lesson…