...decrease in the yield of fruits and vegetables. Pollen Bees collect 66 lbs of pollen per year, per hive. Pollen is the male germ cells produced by all flowering plants for fertilization and plant embryo formation. The Honeybee uses pollen as a food. Pollen is one of the richest and purest natural foods, consisting of up to 35% protein, 10% sugars, carbohydrates, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins A (carotenes), B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (nicotinic acid), B5 (panothenic acid), C (ascorbic acid), H (biotin), and R (rutine). Honey Honey is used by the bees for food all year round. There are many types, colors and flavors of honey, depending upon its nectar source. The bees make honey from the nectar they collect from flowering trees and plants. Honey is an easily digestible, pure food. Honey is hydroscopic and has antibacterial qualities. Eating local honey can fend off allergies. Beeswax Secreted from glands, beeswax is used by the honeybee to build honey comb. It is used by humans in drugs, cosmetics, artists' materials, furniture polish and candles. Propolis Collected by honeybees from trees, the sticky resin is mixed with wax to make a sticky glue. The bees use this to seal cracks and repair their hive. It is used by humans as a health aid, and as the basis for fine wood varnishes. Royal Jelly The powerful, milky substance that turns an ordinary bee into a Queen Bee. It is made of digested pollen and honey or nectar mixed with a chemical secreted from a gland in...
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...Saving the Honey Bees How common is it for certain specie to disappear without a trace? Could this be possible? Apparently it is. Since 2006 the Honey bees have become a great deal of worry not just in the US, but around the world. They have begun to disappear without leaving any trace behind, denominated, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). This phenomenon that has been hunting many for a few years has not yet been understood. Honey Bees are an essential part of human survival. Thanks to them we are able to eat every day. Many of the plant’s survival depend on the honey bees since “one third of the world's agricultural production depends on the European honeybee”(Cox-Foster ). They are the ones that can pollinate a certain amount of plants much quicker and easily compared to other insects. There have been many hypotheses concerning the loss of bees in the past years. One suspect that caused the disappearance of honey bees was the vorroa mites. These are parasites greatly responsible for the loss of a large number of bee colonies between 1987 and 2006. However, as the bees were studied there was found many unknown symptoms. This is how a hypothesis was developed stating that something was making bees more fragile. Its immune system was becoming weaker making them suffer different types of infections. However, the numbers of the vorroa mites were not extremely significant as to be the ones killing the bees. Another suspect mentioned was parasites. Some of the bees that were found...
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...Hello i'm Jayden volluntering at the sea bird sancuary.Then I stopped.My friends asked me what I was looking at.I pointed at a- tree and we all stepped back.It was a bee hive.We looked around us and saw plenty of bees going to the hive.One of my friends was allergic to bees and he ran.We all heard lots of buzzing.Another one of my friends said bees are 3/4 of an inch and they die when they sting you. I made my friend Jerry next to me go near the bee hive.He was going to touch the bee hive .Then he got stung and fell on the warm dirt head first.We carried him away from the hive.We found a website about honey bees on the computer and we found...
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...I think it would be great to be inside a beehive be bee do lots of thinks and there are lots of kinds of bee like her some kind of bee like a bumble bee, a working bee and a queen bee and they all do loss of thinks. Now that’s take about the working bee the working bee does A worker bee is any female bee that lacks the full reproductive capacity of the colony's queen bee; under most circumstances, this is correlated to an increase in certain non-reproductive activities relative to a queen, as well. Queen bees occur in many bee species other than honey bees, but this is by far the most familiar colloquial. This is what the queen bee does the term queen bee is typically used to refer to an adult, mated female that lives in a honey bee colony...
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...Jones and I love Bees I mean love so I am going to discover at a honey bee hive in a tree chuck at New York. I am there now the hive looks so wierd from the outside and so many bees I can not count so bees than I remember before I came here they told me their are 80,000 bees so be careful thats so many I can not count that I mind hands. There were some bees outside I look at it and I was starting to discover it for a seacond this is what it look like! It had 6 legs and 3 main body parts that were a antennae,eyes,jointed legs and hard exoskeleton. The other 3 main body parts are head,thorax and abdomen. Also they have a pollen sack a compound and a eye a back legs,middle leg,fore legs. Geting to a cool parts of the bee body parts are the proboscis the stinger thats one of the very cool parts of the bee body parts with and also fore wings and the back wings. The bee body is about 3/4 of an inch long that is very cool to me. The fur of the bee is reddish brown and black with orangerings on their back their head and antnnae and legs are black not alot colerful but else they have colered....
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...“The bees are disappearing!” I have heard this in almost every sci-fi movie or series I’ve watched. I always laughed and shrugged it off thinking it was a joke till I started to do some research and I found out…it’s true. You think oh don’t worry they are just bees!! No they are SOO important to our agriculture system and do you know what agriculture is, it is food! More than 100 US crops rely on honey bees to pollinate them; these crops make up approximately 1/3 of our U. S. diet. The work of honeybees increases the amount and the quality of the US crops by around $15 billion annually. That is a lot of money to be relied on something as simple, yet intricate as honeybees. Commercially managed colonies in the United States have declined...
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...to survive (Wilson 1971). Social insects are well known to partake in this type of behavior. Whether it is by trail pheromones, directly guiding the conspecific to the food source or in some cases signaling, such as the vibratory waggle dance of the honey bee, increases foraging effort (Frisch 1967; Jarau & Hrncir 2009). Honey bees’ waggle dance is well understood and known to provide their nest mates with information on not only the presence of valuable food sources but also the exact location and quality of the food source (Couvillon 2012; Frisch 1967). The main component of this dance is called the waggle run which is when a...
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...Honey Bees are Disappearing The drastic decline of honey bees in the United States is a marvel that has many individuals making inquiries. A famous thinker, Albert Einstein, quoted, “If the bees disappear from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” Is this true? Need I remind us that these little creatures play an extremely important role in pollinating many, if not most of our food crops. Bees are a primary source for farming over two-thirds of our food by pollinating them, and they are the most important group in moderate climates (Palmer). Without the correct balance, humanity would slowly wane in population, as our food production and supply will decrease. As small as they may seem, they render a critically...
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...first thought when they think about bees? Is it the annoying bugs that buzz around people’s head? Or is it the terrifying monsters that makes one carry an epi pen? Often the first thoughts are negative, but humans fail to realize how significant the honey bees are as a species. People reap benefits from them spanning from agricultural to medical, yet many still do not know how intricate their behaviors are, or how much they influence a human’s life, or even how they make honey. For being such a significant figure in many fields, why is it that humans know so little relating to these remarkable insects? A way to change this lack of knowledge is through educating oneself on the facts of honeybees, which can then stem a deeper appreciation...
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...Honey bees: Most of the food that humans eat are derived from the pollination of honey bees. Some of the many crops that bees pollinate are cucumbers, almonds, cherries, pears, apples, plums,cantaloupes, kiwi, blueberries, cranberries, and etc. Bees are responsible for pollinating nearly 85% of all food crops for humans, as well as numerous crops that grow the food fed to cattle.(the benefit of bees) Without them,the worlds options for nourishment would seriously be miserable, research has conducted that if the environment were to collapse, should they no longer exists. Many plants would have no way of reproducing and they would eventually die off without the help honeybees. Honeybees play a very important role in the life cycle of many plants....
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...The honey bee is a cornerstone of everyday life. The honey bee has pollination impacts quantified in billions of dollars. Hundreds of plants are pollinated by bees, including potatoes, onions, celery, peppers, cabbage, cauliflower, watermelon, coconut, tangerine, cucumber, lemons, limes, carrots, cotton, strawberries, zuchinni, mangoes, beans, cherries, and tomatoes. These fruits and vegetables are all vital to our nutrition and diet. Would you really want to say goodbye to potato chips? Almond joys, spaghetti and meatballs, the shirt you’re wearing? Bee-pollinated products span from the fashion to packaging industries, and are imperative to diets that help obese and diabetic patients get back on track with their health. Once you connect all...
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...1) The definition of a “market” in context of economics is “the process of buyers and sellers exchanging goods and services.” The first paragraph of 3.1 also states directly that internet stores are markets. The statement being evaluated is therefore false – virtual transactions do indeed occur within a market. 7) a) Demand for hamburger meat would go down, because chicken is cheaper. (The prices of related goods) b) Demand for hamburger meat goes down, because the buns used to serve the meat are no longer cheap enough for the meat to be worth it. (The prices of related goods) c) Demand for hamburger meat goes up, because the revelation that hamburger meat is healthy will have people eating it more than they usually would. (Tastes change in favour of the good) d) The demand for hamburger meat goes up, because there are now more people who want the meat, but not enough meat to give everyone an equal share. (Increase in the number of buyers in the market) 9) a) E. b) C. c) B. d) F. 23) a) B. b) C. c) D. d) E. Pgs. 93 – 96 1) If the price of a product is above the equilibrium price, there is a surplus. To head towards the equilibrium price again, prices of the product would be decreased, as would production of the product. That in turn will encourage consumers to buy the now cheaper product. When they buy the product because the price is low, the surplus will be eliminated. If the opposite is true however, and there...
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...Running head: SAVE THE HONEY BEES! 1 Save the Honey Bees Ryan Lovett Northern Illinois University SAVE THE HONEY BEES! 2 Save the Honey Bees! Breaking news! Honey bees turn into zombies! Honey bees are disappearing because of colony collapse disorder. Honey bees are the most important insect to the survival of the human race because honey bees pollinate about one third of the fruits and vegetables used as food (Genersch, 2010, p. 87). In order to save the honey bees from extinction, it is important to first understand what honey bees do. It is also important to know how beekeepers take care of bees so that more beekeepers may be trained for future bees to thrive and for others to be knowledgeable of the bees. Commercial beekeepers transport their bees all around the United States to pollinate the US food supply. Research of colony collapse disorder or CCD, which is the reason for the bees disappearing, is important so bee keepers and scientists can prevent further cases of CCD. Understanding What Honey Bees Do. Honey bees are an important creature that balances the ecosystem. Understanding what bees do is important to maintaining their survival, as well as ours. The major objective of any bee is to form a nest; in the case of honey bees their nest is a hive. In order to build their house, a queen bee and some workers begin making the foundation. Once the house is completed, the workers get the queen settled in and she begins laying eggs. In captivity, the queen...
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...[TEACHER] The Demise of the Honey Bees Honey bees and the other pollinators have been providing humans their invaluable pollinating services. These pollinators have helped produce approximately $19 billion worth of agricultural crops in the United States alone in 2010. (Arnold). The BeeBase, operated by the National Bee Unit (NBU) in England, has been operating since 1991 and was created to set out to protect and sustain the national bee stocks. A new initiative called, Healthy Bees Plan, encourages the 20,000 beekeepers in England and Wales to register and stay in close contact with the NBU. The database will play a key role in allocating the new funds allotted to honey bee protection. (National Bee Unit). Honey bee colonies are collapsing because of colony collapse disorder or CCD. There are many factors that cause CCD, such as parasites, viruses, chemicals, bacteria, and the environment, but many experts disagree on what combination of these factors actually cause CCD. Despite being considered a pest, nuisance, and some may say, dangerous, the bees are still a necessary part of agriculture. As humans, we should respond to their disappearance by helping re-populate the honey bees since many plants rely on them for pollination. Different ways to help re-populate the bees are by planting a diversity of plants around your home to lessen the potential contamination of plants, avoid the use of any pesticides, and lastly, take up bee keeping as a hobby. Without bees, cross pollination of...
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... tech. Off. int. Epiz., 2008, 27 (2), 499-510 Climate change: impact on honey bee populations and diseases Y. Le Conte (1) & M. Navajas (2) (1) French National Institute for Agronomic Research (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - INRA), UMR 406 Abeilles et Environment (INRA/UAPV), Laboratoire Biologie et Protection de l’Abeille, Site Agroparc, Domaine Saint-Paul, 84914 Avignon Cedex 9, France (2) French National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), UMR CBGP (INRA/IRD/CIRAD/Montpellier SupAgro), Campus International de Baillarguet, CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez Cedex, France Summary The European honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the most economically valuable pollinator of agricultural crops worldwide. Bees are also crucial in maintaining biodiversity by pollinating numerous plant species whose fertilisation requires an obligatory pollinator. Apis mellifera is a species that has shown great adaptive potential, as it is found almost everywhere in the world and in highly diverse climates. In a context of climate change, the variability of the honey bee’s lifehistory traits as regards temperature and the environment shows that the species possesses such plasticity and genetic variability that this could give rise to the selection of development cycles suited to new environmental conditions. Although we do not know the precise impact of potential environmental changes on honey bees as a result of climate change, there is a large body of data at our disposal...
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