Worker bee

10/30/17 Christopher miles Save the world proposal The honey bee has many species to its name, so it is quite difficult to find which species of bee has been put as endangered the name of the Bombus affinis (the rust patched bumble bee) is seen on the list of endangered in the United States. The bee has seen a sharp decline since the 1990’s. the bees pollinate around 1/3 of the crops of the United States, this makes it a concern seeing as the bee is close to extinction. But what has led to this…

production. As stated by Einstein, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” Although this statement is an exaggeration of how important honey bees are, it is still…

is during that 58 year span, in which honeybee colonies declined from 5.9 Million to 2.4 Million or a total loss of 40% (Problems in Domestic Bee Colonies, 2007). The sudden and inexplicable losses of such large numbers of honeybee colonies being reported in 2006 was alarming across agricultural communities, as it was recognized…

What the Buzz? Over the last 28 years, the United States bee population has dropped by around one million. In 1989 the United States reached a peak of 3.5 million bee colonies, whereas today we are sitting at around 2.6 million. While the effects are evident, the cause behind them is not. There are many factors believed to be aiding the decline of the bee population, however no one participant can take all the blame. One of the most commonly sought reasons for their decline relates to new…

the infection, and bee keepers have yet to develop a treatment that is safe, effective, and easy to apply. Therefore this Varroa mite is able to dramatically weaken a hive’s health and allow for other types of viruses to eradicate the hive completely. This study details many aspects of Varroa that are currently known. Information regarding bother the biology and pathology of these mites is important for elucidating and understanding possible tolerance mechanisms in its honey bee host. Breeding…

honey bee population. With these numbers and all of the alarming statistics, it is important that we consider both ethical and market approaches to revitalize communities and replenish food supply. Honey bees as a population follow an extremely interesting order to maintain productivity and success within their hives and colonies. Adult female bees are labeled as queens in the hive and only emerge to mate with the adult male drones. This happens three times over the course of their queen bee…

to their high toxicity, these neonicotinoids, as well as any chemical, can cause an ever more occurring incident called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Colony Collapse Disorder is an incident that befalls a hive when worker bees disappear from a colony, leaving behind a single queen bee and larvae. When this occurs, the hive will soon cease to…

honey bees in the USA is somewhere between $1.6 billion and $14.6 billion (de Lange and Veldtman). With these six-legged employees gone, farmers would be losing billions of dollars of free labor, not including the cost of equipment, research, and workers. The use of artificial pollination is estimated to cost hundreds of billions of dollars simply to do a job that is already being effectively done by nature (de Lange and Veldtman). Hand pollination is both time and cost inefficient, but will…

I chose Honey Bee for our project because I recently watched the Bee Movie, and from that movie I got into thinking if what the writers of the movie are really true about bees. Also recently when I was in the restroom washing my hands there was a bee came in and started flying, so I smacked it and it died. Since I was bored that time, I tried to dissect it, but I did not know what each of parts’ purpose. And since all bees are important to all living things because of its pollute will affect the…

Recently I have seen much ado on many social media platforms about a problem that is taken very jokingly. The problem that I am talking about is the exponential dying rate of bees. I see that many people will make “memes”, which are jokes that are passed around the Internet like a flu or a virus, metaphorically speaking, and contain anything from satire to funny videos with a good mix of joyous and crude humor. Now the problem that arises with that is few will actually take into effect the…