Stingless bee

“ 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…

Yesterday I was walking down the street when I experienced a minor tragedy; I was stung by a bee. For a moment in my despair I thought, “Oh, how I wish these insects would just die out.” Once the pain went away I realized that the disappearance of bees would be an awful loss. While people would no longer have to deal with bee stings, people would also no longer have flowers. Getting rid of the pain and suffering of the world would not be worth the inevitable loss in beauty and emotion.…

average of 30% of all honey bee colonies dies each winter. We rely on bees to pollinate 90% of the world's food and to increase the yield by up to 30%. Many fruits and vegetables would become scarce and prohibitively expensive without the bees. If bees became extinct most of our food will no longer exist and if it did, it wouldn't be very affordable. Scientists have pointed out several causes behind this problem, including global warming, habitat loss, parasites and a class of bee-killing…

The issue of invasive species first came to my attention by the creature in the photo on top. The creature is the cane toad (Rhinella marina), which I first got to know from a documentary from National Geographic, Killer Cane Toad. Much has been forgotten from the documentary, hence I looked up the internet to refresh my memory on the issue again. Here is what I found. Cane toad was first introduced into Australia in 1935 by Reginald Mungomery to tackle the issue of canegrubs damaging the cane…

Pesticides appear to play a great role in cases of colony collapse. For example, neonicotinoids appear to impact bee behavior in ways that easily provide the opportunity for illnesses and parasites to strike when a bee already has a poor diet and a hampered immune system. A neonicotinoid is a newer form of pesticide which is produced in the form of pellets and put into the soil. When watered, the crops absorb the chemicals from these pellets through their roots. This makes them pest-resistant…

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They like nice bright things and things that smells sweet, so calm down, they aren’t out to get you on purpose. Putting out bee-friendly flowers will allow them to pollinate, also setting out little dishes with drops of sugar water is very helpful, as sugar water helps hydrate your bee friends. Becoming a certified bee keeper is another way to help save the bees. With more bee farmers, you allow bees a safe habitat and home, where the bees can safely breed and repopulate. As Barry B. Benson once…

home. The decline in bee population has been written about for decades but it was not until recently it became problem. The United States Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection agency agree the noticeable decline started in 2006 when some bee keepers reported a loss of 30-90% of their hives. Some lost bees will always be normal as there will always be other animal populations that decrease every few years slightly, but this great amount lost had bee keepers worried for…

an article titled “No Bees, No Food” published on the California Environment website it talks about the current problem beekeepers are dealing with. It states that each year beekeepers are reporting that they are losing on average 30% of their honey bee colonies each year. They believe that there could be several…

Summary This essay begins by introducing the problem of declining bee populations and its significance. Varroa mites are discussed as a primary cause of declining bee populations. Next she discusses challenges to conventional forms of pest management including the Varroa mites development of resistances to traditional stand alone chemical treatments. Considering the limitations of conventional pest management, she then looks at some researchers, including Monsanto, and their attempts to use…