The Hives

“them”. A simile in this stanza is used to compare a poem to a colour slide; the colour slide is just a picture. Both a poem and picture is considered art that is observed. The second stanza is one line, “Or press an ear against its hive.” Pressing an ear against a hive (beehive), a buzzing sound can be heard. This implies that readers should listen…

Little did I know, it turns out I had developed an allergy for strawberries! The next day I got a few hives. Two days later, my body was covered in hives. On that exact night I had to go to the emergency room because my throat was starting to close. Luckily, I was given a lot of medication. Sadly, I didn’t get home until 3:00 in the morning and I had to perform that day! Courageously…

worker bees abandon their perfectly stable bee hives, decreasing the hive’s chance of survival through the winter months. Now known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the worker bees abandon the colony leaving the it unprepared for the upcoming winter, and has contributed to the 30% decrease of bee hives yearly stated earlier. Some of the first sufferers of CCD were keepers who rented out bees to local growers: These beekeepers found that bees hives returning from farmers who had neighbors with…

mysteriously vanished. After years of being pampered and attended upon, she is left to her own devices and forced to leave behind her life of luxury in order to gather nectar from flower and find her loyal subjects. Can Queen Garnet survive beyond the hive? The game’s art style is evocative of water colors and brush strokes. The art style is evocative of films such as The Tale of Princess Kaguya, Ernest and Celestine and video games including Okami. A brush stroke effect occurs whenever moving…

As a homeowner, do you wonder what to do about the bees on your property? Are you curious as to the best way to deal with a potential infestation? Here are some questions and answers to help you learn more about how to deal safely with bees on your premises: If I see bees near a small gap in my home's exterior, should I fill the hole with caulking foam or cement? Although it may seem logical to block the bees from entering your home, sealing their entrance area can be one of the worst ways…

upon them for reproduction,” (Tepedino 139) yet more and more people are discovering hives of bees are dying out with reasons unknown. With the loss of hundreds if not thousands of bees dying out scientists have started researching the causes of these deaths. They are finding pesticides, bee mites and even disposable…

meanings can only be revealed over multiple readings with careful interpretation. In the second stanza, a poem is compared to “a hive.” He says we need to “press an ear against its hive.” In this stanza Collins is telling us to listen for the sounds of the poem, and what they convey (danger, excitement, sadness, etc.). The importance of words in poetry is represented by the hive that Collins wants us to press our ear against. Traditionally readers do not think to listen to the words and sound…

affected by deformed wing virus and acute paralysis virus, the acute paralysis is a chronic problem and therefore resides rather permanently in a hive, however acute paralysis required over 10,000 mites to be introduced for a large scale infection to occur. The less imperative pathogen, deformed wing virus, required only 2,000-3,600 mites to be introduced to the hive to have an effect on the colonies overall health. Cycles that both the mites…

repopulation of bees. Although this phenomenon explains some of the issues of the disappearing of bees, it does not show where the mass amount of dead bodies of bees go. If global warming was the factor, many beekeepers will notice dead bees around their hive or near the pollination spots. But with the pesticide neonicotinoids, it is possible that the parasite might have sucked out all of the bees blood and have left the body on the ground ready to…

pesticide called “Imidacloprid” (Pettis, 2012). The bees were also introduced to a gut parasite called Nosema, which is a pathogen to the Honeybee (Pettis, 2012). It was shown that Nosema infections increased in the hives that were being treated with pesticide compared to the control hive (Pettis, 2012). It was concluded that the interactions between pesticides and pathogens could be a major contributor to the declination of bee populations (Pettis,…