Pollination syndrome

The species Callosobruchus maculatus is known to be pestiferous, and has the potential to cause significant financial damage to legume agriculture. In the past decade, significant progress has been made to identity different materials capable of controlling pestiferous insect infestation without causing damage to plants or negatively affecting animals and humans. Herein, we investigate the effects of glucose, ethanol, acetic acid, and sodium hydroxide treatments on the mortality and fecundity of…

Bumblebees and Blueberries Many plants require insects for pollination, and therefore reproduction. Blueberries are one such species of plant. They are also one of the main products of Maine. In 2007 alone, Maine gained around 250 million dollars from their blueberry industry (University of Maine 2007). One of the key pollinators of Maine blueberries are the native bumblebees. There are 17 known native bumblebee species in Maine, but there seems to be a problem. It is well known that there has…

My TEDtalk is about sharks and bees, animals that should not be feared and that humans need to stop killing. Both are important to the ecosystem, and without them, the world would be much worse off. Bees are disappearing, and without them, Earth is in trouble. Bees are responsible for most of the flowers and fruit that humans enjoy. They spread pollen so plants can reproduce. If bees disappeared completely, much of our food would disappear as well. This would cause serious problems for everyone.…

Increasing carbon dioxide levels are causing the bees to potentially have to find a new source of food. Pollen gives bees their only source of protein. This means that if pollen is somehow changed the bees could be affected by it directly. Supposedly the rising carbon dioxide levels “sap the nutritional quality of pollen”(Millius). Protein in the goldenrod plant species has gone down from eighteen percent to twelve percent over the last 172 years. During this time is is said that carbon…

what bees can do. Bees have special bodies and body parts to do the job that they were meant to do. Humans can’t pollinate flowers because, even with special equipment, humans would need several full time workers, who are specifically trained for pollination, to work almost 24/7 to get half of the work that bees do. Humans aren’t designed to pollinate anything. Bees have been helping mother nature for a long time and we just couldn’t…

50 percent or more. Furthermore, our region has experienced a steady 30 to 40 percent loss each year. Frankly, these statistics are quite unsettling. Though pollinators are small, they are not to be underestimated. According to the NRDC, cross-pollination helps at least 30 percent of the world's crops and 90 percent of our wild plants to thrive. Without them, we can expect the extinction of many everyday produce items. A few of the foods we would miss are apples, peaches, green beans,…

The important thing I learn is the CCD have declined substantially over the last five years. bee has dropped altogether and have named this perception the state fall issue (CCD). This is a potential risk towards agribusiness and human nourishment supplies. The role honeybees play in our diet goes beyond honey production. These seemingly tireless creatures pollinate about one-third of crop species in the U.S. Honeybees pollinate about 100 flowering food crops including apples, nuts, broccoli,…

Information about the Learners in this Class Class Population: 22 third graders: 13 Caucasian, 5 African American, 4 Hispanic (1 non English speaking) Students needing accommodations: Drew (reluctant reader, difficulty with handwriting, does not like working with teacher’s aide because of being self-conscious about difficulties) and Hayley (low vision, reads at a minimum font size of N20, does not read well from whiteboard, can use a screen reader) Standards AL.SC.3.7: Describe the life cycle…

Recently I have seen much ado on many social media platforms about a problem that is taken very jokingly. The problem that I am talking about is the exponential dying rate of bees. I see that many people will make “memes”, which are jokes that are passed around the Internet like a flu or a virus, metaphorically speaking, and contain anything from satire to funny videos with a good mix of joyous and crude humor. Now the problem that arises with that is few will actually take into effect the…

Approximately one-third of the food and beverages produced rely on honey bee pollination. As the honey bee population declines as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon that causes honey bees to flee their hive and eventually die during the winter months, the agricultural industry in the United States faces an economic loss nearing $20-30 billion dollars. The population decline has been attributed to many factors such as the parasitic Varroa mite, different types of viruses,…