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    Imagine it is a beautiful summer day and you are sprawled out across a towel in the soft green grass, just soaking in the warm rays of the sun as you are reading your favorite book and enjoying a delicious snack of watermelon. The air is hot and humid, but there is relief from the heat comes in the form of a cool breeze that gently ruffles your hair as it passes by. You feel completely relaxed and content in your current position, and you feel yourself slowly drifting off to sleep when you hear…

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    The Honey Badger Family

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    of the members of this family. The Honey Badger: The Honey Badger's fossil record is bleak and is only found in Nagoya and Kenya. It has a long body that is thick-set and broad across the back. Its skin is loose which allows it to turn and twist freely within it. The head is small and flat, with a short muzzle. The eyes are small and it has short and sturdy legs. The feet have strong claws which are short on the hind legs and are long on the front legs. Honey Badgers can be found in the dry…

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    pesticides, so that they can produce honey and pollinate crops. These healthy bees were simply abandoning their hives in large numbers, never to return. If we do not fix the problem at hand then we might have to prepare for economic and environmental problems. To protect these busy bees humans need a greater awareness of what they do for us, what is killing them, and what people can do to prevent their deaths. The bees help us in more ways than one. They produce honey, for sure, but it…

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    Bishop pp. 1). Holley Bishop says that beekeeping seemed so great to her because she liked how “low-maintenance” it was and that the bees “did the farming for you and didn’t need to be walked, milked or brushed (2).” She also really loves to eat the honey that they produce (3). Holley enjoys the benefit of farming an animal that requires little effort. This small upkeep is something that might be very enticing to people. Kerry…

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    World with the Spanish explorers. In the centuries since, honeybees from the Old World comprised virtually all of the bees kept for pollination and honey production. In the 1950s, a research scientist in Brazil imported some bees from Africa to breed with European honeybees. African bees displayed greater resistance to disease and produced more honey than their European cousins. The researcher's goal was to create a cross-bred bee that would be productive under tropical conditions. However, 26…

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    Honey Bee Pollinators

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    factor is the role of certain species of animals known as pollinators in speeding up the breeding process of plants through pollination. One of the most important pollinators, the honey bee transfers the genetic info of male and female plants through pollen, and in return gets nectar to feed its colony (“Pollination”). While honey bees have been around for millions of years, “The yearly USDA-sponsored industry survey has recorded an average 30% loss of honeybee colonies in a defined window of…

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    Nine Stages Of Bees

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    “ When the flower blossoms, the bee will come. In the early days, bees were more like wasps, eating other insects rather than nectar & pollen. There are nine stages that a bee goes through to produce honey. The very beginning of the honey process depends upon a queen. Each hive must have a queen. She keeps the hive functioning when the colony is getting too large; the queen will begin laying queen cells. The nurse bees will take care of this cell. Next, comes the mating flight a queen cell that…

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    Bee Species Bio

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    our food supply, and they don’t deserve to be killed. Bees play an important part in our food supply. They are what give us the sticky, sweet, delicious honey. A lot of people use honey, whether it’s on biscuits or in a recipe. Without the honey that they provide for us, many recipes would go to waste. Bees produce honey, and we take the honey from them to sale at our local stores. Bees also spread pollen around when they take pollen off…

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    Essay On Honey Bees

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    Typically, honeybees will not leave the colony until the immature honey bees have “fully emerged from their honeycomb cells”. A healthy hive, normally, has an approximated 60,000 residents at a time. (Academic OneFile) Most colonies consist of 20 or 30,000 sterile adult females known as workers who carry out necessary tasks of the colony such as securing the hive, fetching pollen and nectar, and processing that pollen and nectar into honey. (Berenbaum) When CCD attacks, colonies that seemed…

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    Bee Movie Analysis

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    However actual bee populations only took a small dip and actually rose after 2008. Another metric of hive strength, honey production, was also at higher levels after 2008. This data would seem to suggest that CCD had little effect on bee output. Why, despite higher rates of bee mortality, did bee production not suffer? One way beekeepers can hedge CCD is to acquire several…

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