Bee-eater

Jacob Weishuhn 11/1/15 BIO 4416-L01 IA: Nathan Custer Which Food Choice Attracts Hummingbirds After a Major Drought? Artificial vs. Natural Introduction Two species of hummingbirds that breed during the summer in Texas are the Black-chinned Hummingbird and the Ruby-throated Hummingbird and, throughout the year, many other species are migrating through this area. The Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) is a small green-backed hummingbird with a few distinct colors except for thin…

The Bee shown in the image displayed on the course website is of the Rusty Patched Bumblebee (Bombus Affinis). This unique bumblebee has recently received attention from many environmental agencies. On January 11th, it received protections given by the U.S. Endangered Species Act. This is the very first variation of bumblebee to be place on the list. Rusty patched bumblebees are considered as a very social insect, living in colonies led by a single queen. Workers and males are designated by…

The species Callosobruchus maculatus is known to be pestiferous, and has the potential to cause significant financial damage to legume agriculture. In the past decade, significant progress has been made to identity different materials capable of controlling pestiferous insect infestation without causing damage to plants or negatively affecting animals and humans. Herein, we investigate the effects of glucose, ethanol, acetic acid, and sodium hydroxide treatments on the mortality and fecundity of…

Bumbled is a 3D platformer/art game inspired by games such as flower, Mister Mosquito and Nights: Into Dreams. In Bumbled you control Queen Garnet, a queen bee whose loyal subjects have all mysteriously vanished. After years of being pampered and attended upon, she is left to her own devices and forced to leave behind her life of luxury in order to gather nectar from flower and find her loyal subjects. Can Queen Garnet survive beyond the hive? The game’s art style is evocative of water colors…

Bumblebees and Blueberries Many plants require insects for pollination, and therefore reproduction. Blueberries are one such species of plant. They are also one of the main products of Maine. In 2007 alone, Maine gained around 250 million dollars from their blueberry industry (University of Maine 2007). One of the key pollinators of Maine blueberries are the native bumblebees. There are 17 known native bumblebee species in Maine, but there seems to be a problem. It is well known that there has…

out to sting them or their loved ones. Bees sting once and then die; their stinger is simply a defense mechanism. If people learn to not be scared of bees, then they will be less likely to kill them on sight, and more likely to plant gardens full of bee-friendly plants, which could go a long way towards saving these…

Bees are extremely vital to our planets pollination cycles and we would really be in trouble if neonicotinoids were one of the reasons they are being wiped out (Decourtye, 2010). The use of pesticides has started to show a devastating effect on the bee population. The pesticides are being sprayed onto crops and they are being carried or transferred by the bees who end up ingesting them without realizing it (Decourtye, 2015). These neonicotinoid pesticides are able to last longer on plants or…

goldenrod plant species has gone down from eighteen percent to twelve percent over the last 172 years. During this time is is said that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere has increased from 280 parts per million to 398. The study shows that a bee with a one -third decrease in protein could drastically shorten a bee's life. The bees are one of our key pollinators, and a diet short of…

are responsible for pollinating everything from strawberries, almonds, to alfalfa used to feed dairy cows. This is where the term “No Bees, No Food” comes in and why we should be aware of this drastic incline of bees in recent years. In Wisconsin bee…

Bees are one of nature’s greatest gifts; they pollinate flowers, they make honey, and they keep many ecosystems healthy. I believe that we should be putting more effort into saving bees for those very reasons, and I believe that we couldn’t do it without them. The first reason we need bees is that we can’t do what bees can do. Bees have special bodies and body parts to do the job that they were meant to do. Humans can’t pollinate flowers because, even with special equipment, humans would…