Beekeeper

This semester in English II pretty good. We learned about a lot of topics. However, the three that stuck out the most to me were the debate, the Hero’s Journey, and we read a book over the summer titled “The Secret Life of Bees” which taught me quite a bit about bees. So, those are the three things that will be covered. First and foremost, the the Debate. The Debate was the most fun/educational one of the three. The Debate taught us how to have a civilized argument. It taught us how to analyze…

found in central Asia. The giant honeybee (Apis Dorsato), which is found in India, Indonesia, and parts of China. Can build honeycombs that are more than nine feet in diameter. Another type of honeybee is the Eastern Honeybee, or Apis Indica, which beekeepers in parts of Asia raise. Probably the more 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…

The Plight of the Honey Bee A keystone species is any species that the environment relies upon so heavily that if the species disappeared, the environment would crumble. Honey bees are a keystone species. The honey bee is crucial to the agricultural industry and to the survival of the world. These insects are dying off in massive numbers, and people are not knowledgeable enough to assist this keystone species. Honey bees are being killed by environmental changes, mites, insecticides, diseases,…

MLA Template “The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.” (Schaff 420) The honeybee is an insect that has provided humans with sustenance, medicine and sweetener. In some early cultures the only sweetener available was honey. The importance of honey in America is more than just its saccharine properties. Honeybees are crucial to the current functioning of agriculture in America. We need to find out what is causing bees to be destro…

honeycomb, the bee encloses the liquid within it. Using a small amount of liquid from their abdomen, which eventually turns into beeswax, the bee caps the honey in the honeycomb. Once hidden from air and water, honey can be stored away until the beekeeper is ready for extraction.…

We treat bees like machines instead of animals. In 1984 a new parasite, the Tracheal mite began to diminish both wild and commercial honeybees in the U.S. In 1987, American beekeepers experienced some of the heaviest losses on record from the Varroa mite. Because of CCD it has been noted that losses as high as eighty percent are occurring overnight (Rich and Morley). Even with all of these things decreasing the population,…

Owens lived at a peach farm in North Carolina with her abusive father and black housekeeper Rosaleen. When Rosaleen gets arrested and the abuse is getting too much for Lily they run away to Tiburon, North Carolina and end up living with 3 black beekeepers. Living with people of a different race than her really caused Lily to open her eyes with racial segregation and the inequality between whites and blacks…

Savannah, Georgia is a populous city filled with people of all different cultures, but surprisingly there are areas which unknowingly combine several sub-cultures together to form one large culture in Savannah. Keller’s Flea Market, which is a family owned business started in March of 1965, is a prime example of a multicultural society that can be compared on a continental or global scale. The experience of the flea market began when I missed the turn to the parking lot. Instead, I was required…

Another metric of hive strength, honey production, was also at higher levels after 2008. This data would seem to suggest that CCD had little effect on bee output. Why, despite higher rates of bee mortality, did bee production not suffer? One way beekeepers can hedge CCD is to acquire several “queen packages” A collection of a queen and several workers from bee breeders. Following the onset of CCD the cost of “queen packages” has risen, stemming from an increased demand in protection from CCD. …

The Importance of Bees in the Environment and a Guide to Beekeeping Honey bees live in highly intricate communes or colonies of as many as 100,000 bees; the largest population of bees in a beehive are worker bees, which are unfertile females. Worker bees also perform most of the work in the beehive. The work includes gathering nectar, water and pollen and cleaning and feeding the queen. The other functions performed by the worker bees are cooling or heating the beehive, whenever it is necessary;…