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    The Disappearance of Bees What would be the agricultural significance if our bees, the world’s most important pollinators, gradually disappeared over time? The answer: the agriculture industry will experience shortages in food, lose profits, and heavy pressure will be placed on farmers who won’t be able to meet demands for food. The world is seeing an increase of bees missing every year, and it’s all thanks to a mysterious phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder. In order to prevent the bees…

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    pollinate about 80% of wild plants and 84% of human grown crops in terrestrial ecosystems (Brown, 2009). The ecosystem service of pollination has the economic value in the agricultural industry worth $1.7 billion (Brown, 2009). However, global honey bee populations are in decline (Potts, 2010). With the given projections for human population growth to reach around 9 billion by the year 2050, the importance of bees to human survival is vital (Brown, 2009). The US Fish and Wildlife Service has…

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    strange behavior, Hafernik put them in a container. John Hafernik discovered that the bees have died in the container and with them were tiny brown pupae. Hafernik figured out that when a female zombie fly lands onto a honey bee, the fly starts to inject fly eggs into the bee. The honeybees showed signs of strange zombie-like behavior when they get injected with the fly eggs. I agree with their belief in how the bee’s behaviors are related to zombie…

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    Beehive Location

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    water source be shallow to avoid bee fatalities by drowning. This can be accomplished by filling the majority of the container with gravel or pebbles and filling it with just enough water to lap against the rocks, but not submerge them. The bees can easily gather from the pools of water or suck the moisture from the surface of the rocks. Shelter A bee shelter is necessary to help keep the beehive shielded from the elements and creatures that could harm it. A bee shelter is a relatively simple…

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    “King P?” cried his troops. “King P?” The Pollinators were being invaded my evil King Felix and the Zecks. Every time the low hum was to be heard, that meant trouble. “Into place! Now! Get your stingers ready to barricade the Pollinators!” “Yes Sir,” the Zecks replied on the demand. This was the third time in one week, that the evil was attempting to stampede the North Willow. For the first time, they glided right past their tree, and tried talking to the honey bee’s. “Oh, their colony is…

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    Bee Movie Research Paper

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    pollinators we wouldn't have fruit, cotton, or coffee. There are 4,000 species of bees. Most of you probably know this but there is a queen bee that stays in the comb. It can also be better for your health. They pollinate with flowers or plants. Speaking of plants they can be male or female even be both. . Now fiction movies aren't usually informational but the Bee Movie is a good movie to watch about pollination. There are many plants that we wouldn't have if bees,…

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    The hive detectives: Chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe. Illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dave Hackenburg, a beekeeper, is horrified when he discovers that many of his bees disappeared. Those bees are the first ones to die in the mysterious calamity which still affects the honey bees today. Without bees there would be no fruit and vegetables; there would be no honey or beeswax. The bee wranglers and the bee scientists are trying to understand the…

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    The Varroa Destructor

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    Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman, 2000) is an obligatory ectoparasite of the honeybee (Apis mellifera L). It caused severe damage to populations of this species world-wide in recent years (Le Conte et al., 2010). The direct negative effect of the Varroa on honeybee has well documented (Weinberg and Madel, 1985; Daly et al., 1988, Wienands and Madel, 1988; Marcangeli et al., 1992; Bowen-Walker and Gunn, 2001; Contzen et al., 2004; Yang and Cox-Foster, 2005; Belaïd and Doumandji, 2010;…

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    The Honeybee (Apis mellifera) is an astounding insect that pollinates on a global scale and thus ensures the prosperity of plant life and animal life alike. However, its baffling how this insect maneuvers its tiny self against earth’s gravity and wind resistance contrary to its considerably small size. The average female Honeybee (pictured above) weighs in at 277 to 290 mg at adult emergence. As their wings are almost paper thin, they still manage to support the bee’s un-aerodynamic anatomy and…

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    Building Your Own Bee Farm: Everything You Need to Know Meta Description: Keeping bees may not be for everyone, but if you want to get in on saving the little pollinators – here’s how. Meta Keywords: Building a bee farm, Bee farming, Bee keeping, Keeping bees Everything You Need to Build Your Own Bee Farm Bees have been in the news in the past few years, much more than at anytime before except for maybe the killer bee scares of the eighties and nineties. In case you missed all of the news…

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