Honey bee

Summary: Over the past two years, the bee population has decreased dramatically and has immensely affected the pollination of plants. The question they are trying to answer is are bees dying because of the Varroa mite and deformed wing virus or pesticides? The scientist’s hypothesis was that the sudden decrease of bees was because of the Varroa mite and deformed wing virus, not because of pesticides. Their experiment was to produce and infect the larvae, pupae, and fully developed bees with an…

hornets skin type is like a shell. This bug could harm someone really bad. It is also in the wasp family. Here are some facts that you didn’t know. The insect could really kill someone if they were stung by this. It is also known as the Giant sparrow bee. Also it is the largest species of hornets. This hornet can be found in eastern Asia. They are very aggressive carnivores hunting other insects even bees. The queen makes nest on the ground. The blue…

Honey bees play a significant role in the production of the various crops humans consume on a daily basis. Without the pollination services of the honeybees, 35 percent of the human diet would disappear. The bees assist in producing fruits, vegetables, almonds, hay, cotton, and other crops which provide nutrients that are necessary for survival. However in recent years, bees have been dying at an alarmingly high rate. This is a problem that must be acknowledged and addressed because it is…

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…

What the Buzz? Over the last 28 years, the United States bee population has dropped by around one million. In 1989 the United States reached a peak of 3.5 million bee colonies, whereas today we are sitting at around 2.6 million. While the effects are evident, the cause behind them is not. There are many factors believed to be aiding the decline of the bee population, however no one participant can take all the blame. One of the most commonly sought reasons for their decline relates to new…

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…

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…

and other species of animals with many products that are used everyday such as fruit and are important to American agriculture. Because of how necessary the bees are there, should be precautions taken in order for the bee population…

This article is about honeybees (Apis Mellifera) and how they are beginning to vanish. Since 2006, beekeepers would open their hives to find no bees, only honeycomb, wax, and honey. One- third of the U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared during the past winter. The disappearance of bees caused food items in the Rhode Island Whole Foods to vanish on the shelves (apples, lemons, zucchini, and etc.). The disappearance of honeybees has effected the Earth in many ways. People are losing their…

10/30/17 Christopher miles Save the world proposal The honey bee has many species to its name, so it is quite difficult to find which species of bee has been put as endangered the name of the Bombus affinis (the rust patched bumble bee) is seen on the list of endangered in the United States. The bee has seen a sharp decline since the 1990’s. the bees pollinate around 1/3 of the crops of the United States, this makes it a concern seeing as the bee is close to extinction. But what has led to this…