Pollinator

Honeybees are social insects that live in hives. Bees have a three body part, 6 legs, a pair of antennae, compound eyes, jointed legs, and a hard exoskeleton. The three body parts are the head, thorax, and abdomen. The thorax is the middle part of the bee that is between the head and abdomen. In the thorax is where the two pairs of wings and six legs get support from. Do you know how many wings a bee has? The answer is four. Two wings are attached in the front and two wings are attached in the…

Burt’s Bees is another very environmental company just as the webpage for Burt’s Bees mentions Bees thought them how to run a company that is one of their signatures as a company meaning that they are committed to make the world greener, cleaner and working with natural products making sure that nothing goes to the dump. They have monthly volunteering activities in which they contribute to recycling and making sure that everything gets done the correct way. This company really takes the…

Chemical control has to be done before blooming or when pollinators are not active.Treating early spring, and sometimes combine it with late treatment was shown to effectively control the strawberry blossom weevil (Tönnberg, V.,2014). Pyrethroids are an effective insecticide, but it also affect beneficial insects such as natural enemies or pollinators. If used they need to spray before flowering and after harvest. Mis-used of the product can lead to increased…

Building Your Own Bee Farm: Everything You Need to Know Meta Description: Keeping bees may not be for everyone, but if you want to get in on saving the little pollinators – here’s how. Meta Keywords: Building a bee farm, Bee farming, Bee keeping, Keeping bees Everything You Need to Build Your Own Bee Farm Bees have been in the news in the past few years, much more than at anytime before except for maybe the killer bee scares of the eighties and nineties. In case you missed all of the news…

is said that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere has increased from 280 parts per million to 398. The study shows that a bee with a one -third decrease in protein could drastically shorten a bee's life. The bees are one of our key pollinators, and a diet short of…

I. A Competitive Edge The best races have the best competitors, and angiosperms have certainly been described as having an extra edge. As discussed in the introduction, the fossil record shows that gymnosperms were quickly displaced by angiosperms upon their arrival. Yet despite the number of hypotheses (table 1) put forward to explain this shift in vegetation, gymnosperms’ competitors have not yet been discovered. Among the numerous hypotheses, three are discussed in depth here (summarised in…

"Rethinking Pesticides" by Scott Hoffman Black touches on the issues that pesticides have forced upon the ecosystem for millennia. Black mentions that even the Romans burned sulfur to kill insects and pests, and in the 1600s, people were even using a mixture of honey and arsenic to kill ants. Black’s overall goal in this article is to make people realize we need to study the effects of these chemicals on the whole environment before we simply use them for the “next quick fix.” He mentions that…

The Survival of Beautiful Blue Planet Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. Rachel Carson mentioned in her book Silent Spring that “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after…

has been achieved via endeavour, grit and determination. Term one sprang to life with the girls exploring nature’s life cycle. Titled, ‘Life and Living’ our young Science and Technology investigators; experimented, discovered and examined Bee Pollinators and used their I-Pads to photograph dissected flowers and annotate their diagrams. ‘A Long Walk to Water’, was read and studied. Its cultural importance and linguistic contexts were investigated, culminating in a new appreciation of Australian…

Organic food gets more popular every year. Many people decide to buy organic food instead of conventional food every day. But organic food is not only better for the human body, the organic food industry will also help overcome many problems. In the majority of our history, agriculture could be described as organic. But in the 20th century, scientist discovered a wide range of new chemicals which were useful for growing food. The organic farming movement started in the 1940s in response to the…