The Hives

The hive mind is quite the creepy psychological phenomenon. It degrades others; causing them to be assimilated. Being yourself is truly the greatest accomplishment anyone can receive. In being original, you can experience the situation for what it really is. Also in nurturing that uniqueness, one can be a component of progress instead of stagnation. But, in being original, it causes negative social consequences. Simply ignore it. By impersonating someone in an effort to elude reality, and…

Burns, Loree. (2002). The hive detectives: Chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe. Illustrated by Ellen Harasimowicz. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dave Hackenburg, a beekeeper, is horrified when he discovers that many of his bees disappeared. Those bees are the first ones to die in the mysterious calamity which still affects the honey bees today. Without bees there would be no fruit and vegetables; there would be no honey or beeswax. The bee wranglers and the bee scientists are trying…

When I was 12, going into 6th grade I went to summer camp. The camped was called Aloha Hive In Fairlee, Vermont. This was an all girls camp geared towards teaching girls skills such as, pitching a tent, hiking, making a fire, sailing, swimming among other things. Everyday at breakfast we would sign up for the activities we want to participate in for that day. On morning as I was eating an scanning over the list of the day 's activities my eye fixated on something called a “solo”. Immediately I…

The most important part of the beekeeping process is the hives where the bees live. Different methods have been used to make the extraction and collection process of the honey to be easy. The best-known hive is the Langstroth hive. It is the one that is used by many beekeepers. The advantage of the Langstroth hive is that it can be moved. It is a frame and is rectangular. It has got many hives in it. The artificial combs that are on the frames are all made from materials like plastic or wax.…

Backyard Beekeeping Many beekeepers prefer having their hives in their backyard and some bees are being kept on roof-tops on the city. There is no need to put your hive next to flowering plants since bees can travel some miles to gather pollen and nectar. If you are a city beekeeper it is of importance for you to take special care for your bees and ensure your neighbours are comfortable and safe with your beekeeping practice. Below are some of the tips that can help you while practising backyard…

have led to a drastic decline in the number of managed hives available for pollination. Colony collapse disorder (CCD) (Mortensen, Schmehl and Ellis)has caused the highest level of hive decrease since 2006. The phenomena of CCD has generated a large amount of public interest, in turn increasing interest in honey bee management or beekeeping worldwide. This interest has also led to an increase in research. Wild…

house, I was able to look inside several beehives. I saw thriving bee hives with a strong population and weaker bee hives with a low population. I got to taste the honey right from the…

for over 800,000 years. In Africa there is cave art of bees that allow biologist to predict their time beginning time of existence. There are three types of honeybees which are the queen, drone, and worker bees. The queen bee is the head of the hive that has the most important job which is to give birth to all the new drone and worker honeybees. The queen mates with a drone bee and is able to lay an average of a million eggs throughout her whole lifetime. The drone bees main purpose is to…

population. Starting at six days old, young bees start to feed younger larvae in their hive. The adult bees do other tasks such as scavenging for the other honeybees. In a hive, there is no simple hierarchy, unlike human beings who have business hierarchies for large businesses. Each bee does something to benefit another bee. The queen may be valuable, because there is only one in each hive, but the queen does not rule the hive. Worker bees send orders by signaling to the queen bee about when to…

Nosema is one of the most prominent bee diseases in the US. It affects around 60% of bee hives in the US. (Shimanuki 4) The Nosema is caused by a microorganism called a protozoan. This organism is spread through spores and is transmitted by bees that drift between colonies or raid weak colonies for honey. Nosema affects the digestive system…