Bee-eater

To bee or not to bee, how the buzz are scientist going to make an artificial bee? Although honey bees can really sting, they are also natures sweetest insect. Honey bees provide with a delicious golden nectar we call honey, but most importantly they pollinate all of our crops. So how are we going to create an artificial bee without knowing their jobs. Bee’s all have different jobs from the queen to to the worker bee. So how are these jobs done in the first place? Bees have a major role in our…

In Dr Deborah Gordon tech talk, “How Ant Colonies Get Things Done” she presents her findings from studying a collection of ant colonies in New Mexico for the past 25 years. More specifically, she focus on the Red Carpenter ant species. While colonies of ants may look at first glance like simply a bunch of ants running around aimlessly, a closer and more careful look shows substantial social organization. A colony can solve problems unthinkable for individual ants, such as finding the shortest…

The Western Honey Bee and its twenty sub species have been extensively spread across the planet due to economic benefits relating with pollination and honey production. Honey bees live in colonies and split the division of labor among individuals. There are three castes of Western Honey Bees: Workers, Drones, and Queens (Krell 1996). Worker bees are non-reproductive females that make up the largest group in the colony. They specialize in the collection of pollen/nectar and feeding the young.…

In Science magazine, Jonas Geldmann and Juan P. González-Varo wrote a piece talking about the loss of western honey bees. It is done by compiling evidence performed by tests and other articles on the subject. They bring attention how society has grown to know that the loss of bees, or natural pollinators, has been an epidemic. They reference this to bring the attention that, “pollinators for global food security; ~75% of all globally important crops depend to some degree on pollination.” While…

in the exposed group this behavior is not seen. A. mellifera exposed to the pesticides have been observed to leave, and sometimes even abandon the hive during the winter, resulting in death due to the harsh weather conditions of winter for which the bee is ill suited. The specific mechanism being affected by the pesticides is not yet known, but it is apparent that neurological status and behavior is being altered. A. mellifera death during winter occurs naturally, but in instances where the…

are bee pollinated.’ Around the World, these crops are worth at least $207 billion.” One fact even more bizarre is that honeybees are disappearing and no one seems to know for sure why. Despite their highly evolved and complex anatomy and colony life, honeybees are susceptible to environmental and manmade threats. The economic and agricultural impacts of their disappearance are far-reaching. Honeybees have an incredibly unique…

Reading is essential to everyday living, the failure to read will restrict student’s ability to understand basic Math, Language Arts, Science or Social studies. Students with reading difficulties need support for their deficit in a specific skill with different strategies. The two reading difficulties for ESE students and how I will address the difficulties in my future classroom are difficulty with high – frequency sight words using a multi-sensory approach that combines language experience…

Imagine a world where your garden isn't plagued by ravenous Japanese beetles who eat every plant in sight. If you lived in America prior to 1912, you wouldn't have to imagine this scenario because you would be living it. As their name suggests, Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) are native to Japan. The water surrounding the island and the insect's natural predators kept them contained there until the fateful day that a plant was shipped from Japan to the United States. Hiding in the soil of…

Introduction to Horse Flies (Tabanidae) Horse flies can be found in most areas of the United States with more than 160 species. They can grow up to 1 ¼ inches long and are generally black and gray in color. Female horse flies have blade-like mouthparts used for blood feeding which slash tissues and blood vessels in order for blood to flow to wounds. After which, they use their sponge-like mouthparts for sucking up blood. Male horse flies have weaker mouthparts compared to females and only feed…

“The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication-on an innate ability to send and receive messages, to encode and decode information” (Kidd 165). This quote shows one similarity that bees and humans share. And most people don’t think about bees and humans having anything in common. However, if you look at the facts they actually have a lot of similar qualities. And using facts and comparisons, the author incorporates this main idea into the book. What the author is trying to…