The Hives

You can order them from a beekeeping supply company. The postal service will deliver live bees direct to your door. You can get them from a local beekeeper. Or you can attempt to hive a spring swarm of bees. You’ll also want a good book on the raising and keeping of bees. A five-hundred word post just isn’t big enough to convey the ins and outs of when to harvest honey, how to troubleshoot problems, and when and how to expand your…

In the year of 2016 many of the bee species have decreased in population. Some of the bee species were even placed on the endangered list. Many people don’t think it’s that big of an issue, because they are just pests that sting people, but they really do more than we think. Bees have a big importance to our food supply, and they don’t deserve to be killed. Bees play an important part in our food supply. They are what give us the sticky, sweet, delicious honey. A lot of people use honey,…

main idea into the book. What the author is trying to communicate in this book is that bees and humans behave in similar way, and through quotes about bees that relates to the situation before each chapter, by comparing people to the queen and her hive. Multiple quotes from within the book show that bees and humans have similar characteristics, such as, “Bees swarm before death” (Kidd 2). It shows that when there is death bees will go to it, just like how if there is a car accident or a fire…

changed color. She never used to have any allergies and that is why I was most concerned about. The next morning that red color became stronger and spreaded more over the body. I emediatelly took her to the hospital. What they found out was that she got hives. It is a raised, red…

There are three types of bees in the hive/colony – Queen, Worker and Drone. In the Queen’s short 3-4-year lifetime, she lays 600-1500 eggs a day. This daily egg production could equal her weight. By laying all these eggs, she provides future workers and drones for the colony. In turn, the workers and drones maintain her so that she is capable of performing her enormous task. The drones are the male bees in the hive that mate and fertilize the eggs for the queen. The drones live…

very cost effective pesticide for crop farmers, but detrimental to honey bees. The pesticide attacks the nervous system, sometimes disorienting the victim, or being carried back to the hive and spread among the hive. Prolonged exposure weakens the health of the hive and eventually causes a mass die-off of the hive. Reducing the use of Neonicotinoid pesticides is one way we may be able to help, not only commercial beekeeper’s populations, but also wild honey bee…

It is somewhat clear to people who have bee hives to identify when CCD occurs. Some colonies get raided by moths and beetles, some have an extensive amount of death from poisons but when all the bees just vanish with little to no traces of death it is a tell-tale sign of CCD. CCD can be caused by numerous things from not having enough flowers to pollinate, and by other insects and animals attacking the hive. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

The Secret Life of Bees: Growing up Lily During adolescence you begin to mature or grow more. People grow through experiences and challenges. In the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd Lily also matured and grew up during the book. Three examples of how Lily matured and grew are becoming understanding, hard working and independence. “I turned my pillow over and over for the coolness, thinking about May and her wall and what the world had come to that a person needed something like that” (Pg 98…

paralyzed, to die (Kalman 17). The drone bee rarely leaves the hive, unless in search for the queen on her mating flight. The queen bee does not do much more physical labor. The queen is a fully developed female with huge ovaries that produce eggs at an unbelievable rate (Gary 21). When a queen bee is ready to mate, she leaves the hive and flies to a mating area chosen by the drones. She may mate with 15 to 20 drones before she returns to the hive. She only mates once in her lifetime (Kalman…

attention. Before assessing and understanding their afflictions, one must first have some basic knowledge about the structure/organization of a typical honey bee colony. They are social insects, with each individual bee living to benefit the hive. The survival of the hive depends on the entire colony’s efforts, and its efficiency increases with the population. This is why honey bees can be vulnerable when part of their colony dies or has defects. They lose efficiency, balance, and due to…