Honey

Burns, Loree. (2002). The hive detectives: Chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe. Illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dave Hackenburg, a beekeeper, is horrified when he discovers that many of his bees disappeared. Those bees are the first ones to die in the mysterious calamity which still affects the honey bees today. Without bees there would be no fruit and vegetables; there would be no honey or beeswax. The bee wranglers and the bee scientists are trying…

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,…

2.RELATED WORK The artificial bee colony (ABC), an optimization technique is based upon the intelligent moving behavior of honey bee swarm was proposed by Karaboga in 2005. This kind of new Meta heuristic is inspired by the clever foraging behavior of honey bee swarm. The criteria presented in the work is for numerical function optimization. The advantage of ABC is that the global search ability in the algorithm is implemented by introducing neighborhood source production mechanism. Rao et al.…

There are many different speculations of why the honey bees are disappearing. Research suggests that one cause of the disappearance of the honey bees are diseases. One of the biggest threats to honey bees is Varroa Destructor “a large external parasite that attaches and sucks the blood from the bee. The Varroa mite, introduced by accident in 1987 by the Asian Honey Bee, has since developed a disastrous relationship with the American honey bee resulting in a significant loss from coast to coast…

off of it’s honey bee population. Some causes being, environmental changes, parasites, genetic changes to honey bee colonies and other causes being human made. The use of the pesticides known as neonicotinoids, are very widely used by crop farmers across Colorado, because of the way the pesticide works. Neonicotinoids stay in the plant as it develops, eventually making its way into the nectar of the plant, making it a very cost effective pesticide for crop farmers, but detrimental to honey bees.…

to animal extinction, If honey bees go exctinct we will greatly louse our food suplies and our population will begin to decend downward. We would end up being stictly put on a diet of grains weats and oats. Since thouse food products are not pollinated by honey bees. Thoughes with gluton free diets or have alergies to specific foods such as grains, may possibly die off. Adapting to such a disaster would be difficult. Many animals who relie on specific foods produced by honey bees will die off,…

in its honey bee host. Breeding for tolerance is only just beginning but looks promising once more research has been conducted. In the meantime, treatment by apiculturists can be done and involves techniques such as the administration of synthetic acaricides of varying potency, herbal agents, and propolis, or various biotechnical methods including the application of ultrasound, strategic heat, traps, or the introduction of a predator or parasite of Varroa. Without these treatments, most honey…

The Behavior of Bees Behavior Patterns in Bees Honey bees are reasonably smart enough to learn such things as operant conditioning and color discrimination; the bees are also sensitive to taste, pheromones and UV. Bees can also store cognitive maps of their surroundings, location of food and knowing the times to look for food. A study published in 1983 in Science new journal showed that bees communicated much clearly with other bees in the same location. Foraging bees usually communicate with…

Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is killing off honey bees due to being fed affected High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) with the deadly contaminant. The experiment should be Bruce and his father testing the HFCS in different temperatures and different areas, to see how the HMF forms. For Bruce and his father’s hypothesis: At different areas and temperatures, the HFCS develops the contaminant, HMF. The independent variable of this experiment is the HMF and the dependent variable is HFCS because the HFCS…

It is necessary to produce about one-third of the food that humans eat. No, it is not high fructose corn syrup, but pollination by honeybees. Brad Plumer of the Washington Post quotes, “The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization estimates that ‘out of some 100 crop species, which 90% of food worldwide, 71 of these are bee pollinated.’ Around the World, these crops are worth at least $207 billion.” One fact even more bizarre is that honeybees are disappearing and no one seems to know for sure…