Honey

“Save The Bees”... But no, really, Save them. Bees: A flying insect known for pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. These small insects get a lot of bad reputation for ludicrous reasons. The phrase “No Bees, No Food” has been floating around the internet in recent years and for a very valid reason. Millions of bees are perishing around the world, causing our food supply to shrink and environment being harmed drastically. Why are bees “so important” to our food supply? Well, bees…

Native pollinators and European honey bees have experienced widespread declines in the Midwestern United States in recent years. These insects play a significant role in the ecosystem and provide important ecosystem services by pollinating vegetable crops. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency recently developed the CP-42 conservation planting practice to restore habitat for pollinators. The goals of the program are to provide at least three pollinator-friendly wildflowers…

for granted. One of earth’s greatest assets is deserting its domain. Collectively, humans around the globe need to take responsibility for the declining honey bee populations, and aid in their rehabilitation by limiting human and natural impacts on its richness. Bees are commonly known for their role in pollination, as well as producing honey and beeswax. Impacting biotic life to the extent that this decline will lead to death among species that have come to rely on them with their lives,…

Extensions of the Honey Bees Honeybees help produce 35% of all food in the world and have been around for millions of years. Yet, in recent decades, the honeybee population has been decreasing dramatically. On average a beekeeper will report 20% of annual losses, up to 90% on some occasions. Researchers have found that several factors have been causing the decrease in the honeybee population; a loss of habitat, introduction of new chemicals into the ecosystem, increase in the hive size and the…

hatched bee will clean for the first three days that it is alive, then it will feed the larvae and queen. After approximately 10 days the new bees wax glands mature which allow her to build honey combs. During the last few weeks of her life she will fly back and forth from the hive and outside world collecting honey to bring back to the…

bugs out. We take out the drawers where the honey accumulates underneath, which is protected by wax made by the bees. We bring the drawers into the pool house and take a hot knife to burn off the wax sealing the honey inside. Once the wax is burned off, we put the drawers into a spinner; we put the lid on, the container spins and the honey is forced out. The honey drips out of the bottom into a container, which we bring inside. We then put the honey through a strainer to extract any…

earliest depiction of gathering honey from a bee was found. The painting shows a human figure on a rope harvesting honey from a wild bee hive, using smoke in order to divert the bees (Berrod). Thousands 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…

Introduction to Horse Flies (Tabanidae) Horse flies can be found in most areas of the United States with more than 160 species. They can grow up to 1 ¼ inches long and are generally black and gray in color. Female horse flies have blade-like mouthparts used for blood feeding which slash tissues and blood vessels in order for blood to flow to wounds. After which, they use their sponge-like mouthparts for sucking up blood. Male horse flies have weaker mouthparts compared to females and only feed…

Every country in the world requires food in some form and the quantity of food required in each country is growing exponentially because the population worldwide is growing exponentially.. The source of the food is from plants that are eaten directly by people or either eaten by animals that will later be food for people. A third of the food we eat is from the pollination of bees and other insects. Without bees, nothing can be pollinated to make plants grow. Without bees, it will be very hard to…

The films “Food Machine” and “Farmland” we watched in class were both very educational about agriculture. Food Machine was more of an indirect communication, whereas Farmland sent a very direct message. Both of the films brought life to the production of the foods we consume everyday. They showed their audience how these foods are grown and harvested. The film, Food Machine, scratched the surface of food production. The film was based on some of the United State’s largest places of ag…