Bee Gees

large hives had deniably more bees than the small hives. After a few months they noticed the “first sign of disease in some of the larger hives”(Smith, Carter and Seeley). Within a month the disease went rampant throughout the hive, killing the queen bee. This caused the colony to “collapse”(Smith, Carter and Seeley) and most of the bees to die-off. While the small hives did show some signs of disease but were able to fight it off. This study helps support the importance of small hives…

Samantha Bee is a forty-seven-year-old comedian who was born and raised in Canada. Sam climbed the ladder of success, moving from her involvement in the Daily Show with John Stewart as a correspondent to the recent achievement of hosting her own show titled “Full Frontal.” The journey to celebrity status was not one without its challenges and bumps in the road. Just after her birth on October 25, 1969, her parents split, leaving her to be raised by Sam’s Grandmother. Sam said in an interview…

pollination, bees are a vital contributor to food production. Unfortunately, the bee population has been dropping steadily for the last 60 years due to factors such as, pesticides, invasion of pests, and climate change (Walters 375). Neonicotinoids, an insecticide introduced into the market in the early 1990s (Lundin, et al.), has been largely blamed for this drop. The Ontario government, as an attempt to prevent the bee population in its province from further decline, issued regulatory…

Akeelah and The Bee is centered around the story of an 11-year-old African American girl, Akeelah. Despite being cunning, she attends a school that appears to be have a history of low academic achievement. She is encouraged by her principle to participate in a spelling bee, and later qualifies for the nationals. This movie is a portrayal of Akeelah’s voyage to a national title, with the help of her coach Dr. Larabee, and later on, the help of her family and community (Fishburne & Atchison, 2006)…

Summary House flies are a general annoyance to homeowners and carry the potential for transmitting harmful pathogens. This report covers the method of using fly screens to prevent house flies from entering the house and becoming a pest. The outlined method for testing fly screens would be to place them in isolation with the exit being through a wire mesh with varying wire thickness and gaps. Pulling data from a similar experiment (Busvine, 1965), we can assume that 10 wires per linear inch…

Wasps make up an enormously diverse array of insects, with some 30,000 identified species. We are most familiar with those that are wrapped in bright warning colors—ones that buzz angrily about in groups and threaten us with painful stings. But most wasps are actually solitary, non-stinging varieties. And all do far more good for humans by controlling pest insect populations than harm. Wasps are distinguishable from bees by their pointed lower abdomens and the narrow "waist," called a petiole,…

Introduction Nepenthes gracilis, also goes by the name Slender Pitcher-Plant, is a widespread pitcher plant mostly found in Southeastern Asia. This plant distinguishes itself by the presence of a long tube-like, stretched pitcher which contains acidic fluid and enzyme to digest preys. N. gracilis also make use of its special trait, the lid on top of the pitcher to act as a trapping mechanism for preys looking for shield under its lid, and the nectar glands on the lids help in attracting preys…

Swarm behavior is one of the main characteristics of different colonies of social insects (bees, wasps, ants, termites). This type of behavior is first and foremost characterized by autonomy, distributed functioning and self-organizing. Swarm Intelligence, SI, is considered to be the area of Artificial Intelligence that is based on studying actions of individuals in various decentralized systems~\cite{bonabeau1999}. However, there is still today big discrepancy between two schools of thought in…

1. In the article “ The great Poop Disaster” by Anna Starcheski, there are problems with bird poop and they also had solutions. One of the main problems in the article is, there are too many birds in one area. The article says, “ In New York City, for instance, the pigeon population was estimated to be as high as 7 million birds.” ( Starcheski,18) A solution to solve this problem would be to ban people from feeding birds. This would affect the population in a certain area because not as many…

Both the reading passage and the listening lecture are discussing methods to eliminate cane toads from their new environments in Australia. The writer asserts that there have been successful method in getting rid of the cane toads from the sugar cane fields of Australia. However, the lecturer disagrees with the writer's opinion by claiming that the three methods were not successful at all. First, the author claims that humans physically capturing and killing the cane toads has been effective.…