European honey bee

Preservation of the Honey Bee Our planet is run by big time corporations such as Monsanto, to mass produce genetically modified fruits and vegetables that produce their own form of pesticides and insecticides which successfully kill and deter said pest. Yet the organisms who’s primary function is to pollinate, unfortunately find their way into the crossfire of the ongoing war of biological interference. The organism most affected by the mass production of GMO’s are the widely spread and…

and so they started capturing them and keeping them to pollinate and make honey and instead of using pollen, beekeepers started using substitutes to feed the bees. Huang states, “Honey bees are unequivocally the most important insect pollinator for humankind” (2012). If society does not take care of its bees then we will not have a future and the best way to do that is through pollen. There are types of amino acids that a bee can only digest them as free amino acids or they would have to be…

Honey bees are the small, fuzzy winged creatures that tell me when spring and summer are about to arrive. These tiny insects that are seen flying through the air inhabiting vegetable and fruit gardens, pollinating flowers, and farmer’s crops have provided people with honey and food around the world for centuries. In the United States these angles of agriculture, have provided pollination for 130 fruits and vegetables which supports the foundation of nutritional diets for Americans. “Fruit,…

easily threatened and according to the article “How do killer bees kill” “if a killer bee colony senses a threat, on the other hand, the victim could be stung around 2,000 times.” When killer bees feel threatened they chase people or animals up to fifty yards so they do not play around. According to wikipedia “they have killed some 1,000 humans, with victims receiving ten times more stings than from European honey bees.” Killer bees are attacking people in every state there have been sightings…

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…

Ashley Kuroki Science 9/8/15 Insect Olympiad Jigsaw Group B: The Difference between Problematic Insects Moths and butterflies- Moths and butterflies don’t have that many differences. However, moths have feathery antennae while the butterflies have thin antennae. Moths are nocturnal and butterflies are active during the day. Those are the main differences. Even though butterflies have better looking wings than a moth’s, there are some moths that look exactly like a butterfly like the Madagascan…

very least, imagine these everyday food items as high-priced luxuries. These dire predictions are not science fiction, but rather a very ominous and likely scenario if the honey bee population throughout the world continues to dwindle as it has been over the past decade. Although most people know we need bees to produce honey, relatively few people realize the importance of bees for the production of food crops and other agricultural staples. All plants – ranging from agricultural food crops to…

To Bee or Not to Bee “According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible” (script-o-rama.com). Large amounts of bees are dying all around the world due to pesticides and fungicides on crops that contaminates pollen they collect. Bees are responsible for the pollination of more than half of the crops…

or partial shade, preferring moist environments, that lack trees and can grow well after a perturbation. Mostly pollinated by butterflies, bees and other insects (because it provides pollen and nectar) it is commonly use as bovine food, to produce honey or as a medicinal plant (for urological purposes). Linria vulgaris (Butter and Eggs) is an invasive species that grows on disturbed, cultivated soils exposed to sunlight and situated in dry open habitats (found in western Asia, around the…

their hives for the honey. Unlike beekeepers who use smoke on the bees to relax then to retrieve the honey they just kill them and don't think twice. We need to think about what we are killing, and their impact on the world around us before we kill them. Something we can do to save the bees and get their species off of the endangered list is to have farms reserved for them their hives. This way they could still fly around and pollinate but have a safe place to produce the honey and stay.…