“The way humanity manages or mis-manages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,” UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner said.. “The fact is that of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees.” ("Humans Must Change Behaviour to save Bees, Vital for Food Production). Bees as pollinators play a major role in the world’s agriculture and the close…
Robots have been something scientists have been talking about for years with the present being a very big advancement in research. Harvard has made a “robobee” prototype that hasn't been perfected yet. While they are still an estimated 10 years away from a successful bunch, the robobees would function much like regular bees with the ability to pollinate whole crops, communicate, and make simple-decisions. This would be the ideal solution to the slow extinction of bees but even the scientists…
In the year of 2016 many of the bee species have decreased in population. Some of the bee species were even placed on the endangered list. Many people don’t think it’s that big of an issue, because they are just pests that sting people, but they really do more than we think. Bees have a big importance to our food supply, and they don’t deserve to be killed. Bees play an important part in our food supply. They are what give us the sticky, sweet, delicious honey. A lot of people use honey,…
Bees are one of the most important insects we have, they help our environment by pollinating and helping plants. They pollinate plants that we need, like corn, tomato, peas, peppers, peach trees, apple trees, onions, and many more plant that we has humans need to live a healthy life. They also made the delicious honey that we all love, with what they take from the plants they make the food for their queen and the honey. Although many people can’t stand bees, they are very helpful to us, but…
nectar is then stored in what is called their extra stomach. In their stomach, the nectar mixes around with enzymes that transform the nectar into a substance that is able to last longer in the hive. When the bee returns to the hive, full of nectar, it then goes on to pass the nectar to another bee by puking the liquid into the other bee’s mouth. This process repeats until the nectar is finally placed into a honeycomb. After being placed in a comb the nectar looks nothing like the golden honey…
familiar species of all is the Domestic Honeybee, or Apis Mellifera. The Domestic Honeybee is about half an inch in length, although there is some variation. There is short stiff hairs on the bee’s head and thorax, which is the middle of the body. The bee has two large compound eyes and three…
Why does that one bee get to stay in the beehive while the rest of them have to fly around all day for nectar and then bring it back to the bee? Why? This was a question that I asked my dad when I was seven years old. He told me that I would have to find that answer out myself. Now, I know why, because the bee that stays in the beehive is the queen of those bees. She’s the most powerful bee in the beehive, and everybody has to obey her. Every bee has to collect nectar for her and deposit it in…
What most people do when they see a bee is they try to kill it, but that is the wrong thing to do bees have it hard without people trying to kill them. Bees are a necessity for humans to live. This essay will be covering three main topics, why so many bees are disappearing, the history behind the reason, and what can be done to stop the issue. The reason why so many bees are disappearing is due to stress that people put on them. For example, in the article “The Head-Scratching Case of the…
“ When the flower blossoms, the bee will come. In the early days, bees were more like wasps, eating other insects rather than nectar & pollen. There are nine stages that a bee goes through to produce honey. The very beginning of the honey process depends upon a queen. Each hive must have a queen. She keeps the hive functioning when the colony is getting too large; the queen will begin laying queen cells. The nurse bees will take care of this cell. Next, comes the mating flight a queen cell that…
Yesterday I was walking down the street when I experienced a minor tragedy; I was stung by a bee. For a moment in my despair I thought, “Oh, how I wish these insects would just die out.” Once the pain went away I realized that the disappearance of bees would be an awful loss. While people would no longer have to deal with bee stings, people would also no longer have flowers. Getting rid of the pain and suffering of the world would not be worth the inevitable loss in beauty and emotion.…