Beekeeping

Campaigns and hashtags featuring phrases such as “save the bees” and “bring back the bees” have been flooding social media and covering all types of products lately. Brands, such as Honey Nut Cheerios with their disappearing Buzz the bee mascot, have recently began encouraging citizens of the world to contribute to saving honeybees so they will not face extinction. However, are the companies misinforming society on the real status of the bees? On the Cheerios’ website, two specifically…

A major theme in the novel “The Bees” is an individual’s inherent role in society and their ranking or class-level within that society. This theme can also be seen as an allegory for the different social class distinctions that exist in human society as well as the author’s perspective on the lives of real bees and their possibly social hierarchy and “hive mind” within their hives. The novel follows a young bee named Flora 717, with her name indicating her “kin” or social class level and her…

“The Father of Beekeeping” Lorenzo L. Langstroth was born on December 25, 1810, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Lorenzo was an adventure boy, who he loved to study small insects. Wretchedly, as he began to grow up he forgot about his love for bugs. In the year 1831 Lorenzo graduated from Yale University with a degree in theology(ExploringPahistory.com). He put his degree to good use and became a pastor of numerous congregational churches in Massachusetts, two of these churches were the South…

years), gender (given by the sex of household head (male=1, female=0), education level of household head (number of years of formal education attained by the household head). Others were: farming experience (measured number of years in farming), beekeeping experience (recorded in years), non-farm income (measured as binary response on availability of other non-farm income on the farm (if yes =1, otherwise = 0), and household size (given by the number of household members). Also included…

life. I am the youngest of four siblings so while I was in high school my brother graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in environmental science. A short while after his commencement my brother began to grow an interest in the art of beekeeping. Having hives full of bees started off as a hobby, but not long after he partnered with my parents and began an entrepreneurship called Nate’s Nectar, selling natural raw honey. As many already know, honeybees are a main source of cross…

of years after the painting was created in the cave, the first evidence of beekeeping was found in ancient Egypt dating back to five thousand years ago. Wild honey was valued in Egyptian society so much that Egyptians would travel with their hives and would be found with honey in their tombs (Baessler). Beekeeping was so popular throughout the course of history that both Aristotle and Virgil studied and wrote about beekeeping some three hundred years apart (Dick, Allen). Aristotle’s studies…

know the whole story behind both Lily and Rosaleen. In order to help her develop her identity she reveals life lessons through beekeeping. “Don’t be afraid, as no life-loving bee wants to sting you. Still, don’t be an idiot;...Anger agitates, while whistling melts a bee’s temper. Act like you know what you’re doing, even if you don’t” (Kidd). These lessons in beekeeping are pivotal in Lily’s identity development. By telling Lily to act as if she knows what she is doing even if she does not have…

of typhoons, all affect the beekeeping industry in the Philippines specifically in Region 1 and the Cordillera Administrative Region. The volume of honey production, the number of colonies and queens to be produced are all dependent not only on the skills of the beekeepers, but more importantly on the prevailing weather and climate conditions. Climate change appears to be a major concern for agriculture in general and may also have worrying implications for beekeeping. In particular, it has…

calendar sisters, Lily and Rosaleen act like a family would on a hot day in South Carolina despite their racial differences in the 1960s. This passage is during a hot day in Tiburon, South Carolina and after August and Lily come back home after beekeeping they see May and Rosaleen in the sprinklers and join them and June soon joins in later on to show that they are a family. She let and sprawled back on the grass in convulsions of laughter. I plopped down next to her and laughed,too. We could…

are many contributing factors to the decrease in the bee populations. He mentioned that some of the threats are pesticides, environments having less wildflowers, urbanization taking over natural habitats, diseases, and parasites. He states that starting a beehive in your backyard is really simple, but it is harder to “keep [it] going.” Winston mentions that the future is going to be hard without changes made in agriculture. He is very concerned about the chemicals and fertilizers used in…