...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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...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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...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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...“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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...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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...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 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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...Presentation Notes: English = Dynastic Considerations and House of Tudor Alright so, Forge, Carnie and myself are going to be presenting Dynastic Considerations and the House of Tudor. And before we started we thought it would be a good idea to give a sort of – presentation overview; just so that you know what to expect. So we wanted to start by first giving you a brief overview on exactly what the house of Tudor is. The House of Tudor is a English Dynasty of Welsh origin – as you can see by the welsh flag over here – that gave England – FIVE SOVERIGNS – and some of you may be able to recognize it just cause we seen it so many times now These five sovereigns being: 1. Henry VII ( reigned 1485-1509) a. A famous face for most 2. Henry VIII ( reigned 1509 – 1547) b. The man who the entire play were reading about is based on 3. Edward VI (reigned 1547-1543) c. Who is the youngest reigning sovereign EVER 4. Mary I (reigned 1553-1558) d. More commonly known as “Bloody Mary” – and we’ll talk about why in a bit 5. Elizabeth I (reigned 1558 -1603) e. The most normal one. And as you can see from these dates its self, the Tudor Dynasty lasted a 118 years until its dissolution in 1603. So, for the dynastic consideration portion of this presentation – forge and myself are going to be first of all explaining to you who each of these five people are and secondly we will be illustrating the changes or “dynastic considerations...
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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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...Savino Brusco AP English Period 3 February 8, 2015 Gardner Writing Exercise 27 The Adventures of a Honey Badger For a very long time the honey badger was just a very ordinary animal. It was not until one badger, Melvin, decided it was time for a change that the honey badger came to be. Melvin was a modest fellow; he lived in a nest he built himself from lumber and clay with his beloved wife, Betsy, and his two children. This particular year it was especially tough for Melvin to forage honey from the hives. The bees had grown stronger and the painful stings kept Melvin from obtaining honey. Melvin began to become depressed, longing for sweet, sweet tender honey. Growing hungrier and hungrier as the days rolled on Melvin began to have difficulty finding food and fending off his family from the vicious venomous snakes. One night Melvin woke in the mist of the night by a terrifying sliver of snakes all around his nest. As they did every night the snakes tried to break into the nest. Melvin held his dear family close in his arms and prayed as hard as he could to the great Gods of Olympus, in hope of living to see another day. The next day, the snakes moved on, without breaking into Melvin’s threshold. It was only a matter of time before the walls of his nimble house would give in to the strength of the snakes. Melvin decided, for the sake of his family’s survival, that he had to speak to Zues, the Great God of the Animal Kingdom, to urge him to restore balance to living...
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...Name: Diellza Surname: Agolli Class: Environmental science NO MORE HONEY: WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF BEES WERE TO BECOME EXTINCT Introduction Bees are an integral part of our planet’s ecosystem. They pollinate up to one third of the crops on Earth (Ashraf, 2012) and are responsible for providing us with many of the foods on our dinner table each night. Einstein famously postulated that if bees were to become extinct, mankind would be soon to follow. Bees are facing colony collapse disorder, a situation where they leave their hives by either flying off or dying. This disorder resembles the mysterious disappearance of the Mayans centuries ago; do we want to follow in their footsteps? What Einstein was referring to in his famous quote is the symbiotic relationship of life on the planet. Since we all are part off an interconnected ecosystem where each element of our world plays an important role we should take care of each element. The percentage of bees disappearing is surprisingly high, for example in the U.S. 90% of the wild bees population has died out (Gerber, 2007). The U.S. is just one example - there are many bees dying out in Europe, such as the Netherlands and the United Kingdom where 80 percent of the bee population has gone missing (Gerber, 2007). According to Keith Tignor, the state apiarist for Virginia, beekeepers today are losing 25 percent of the beehive compared to 30 years ago when the rate was between 5 and 10 percent. The phenomenon of colony collapse...
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...August lives in Tiburon, South Carolina, where she makes a living beekeeping and selling honey-based products. She is originally from Richmond, Virginia, where worked as a housekeeper for Lily's mother, Deborah. She got her degree from a teacher's college and taught history for six years up north before moving down to Tiburon to start her beekeeping/honey business. August Boatwright is a strong, charismatic, and enormously wise woman. August raises bees and runs her own business selling honey and beeswax products, and she also acts as a surrogate mother to Lily Owens for much of the novel. Unbeknownst to Lily, August worked as a maid for Deborah Fontanel Owens years before, and considers it her duty to take care of Lily when she...
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...More than honey The movie takes a good look at bee colonies in the USA, Australia, Switzerland and China. Throughout the movie, its creator Markus Imhoof repeats Einstein’s saying:“When the bee population dies out, humans will die out 4 years later.“ Seems ridiculous and phony, but when you take a moment to think about the fact that one third of our food is pollinated by bees, you start to think differently. One third may be pollinated by bees, but at least another third relies on the pollination of honeybees. Yet the bee colonies are starting to disappear. The movie tries to explain why and how while showing how they are being treated in different environments. The movie describes brilliantly how the bees live: how they work together in their hive from the moment they are born. They remain loyal to their family no matter what and work to create a queen and keep the colony running like clockwork. The movie shows the many reasons that together make the lethal combination for the bees: toxins, transportation and diseases. To say honestly, it is heartbreaking, even for the viewer, to see a beekeeper open a hive and see thousands of little dead bodies on the ground with no particular reason. I guess that is what the movie relies on - the compassion and heart of the viewer. In China, once Mao Zedung told to kill all the sparrow because they eat the seeds on the crops. As a result there were so many insects that they had to start destroying them too. Due to that in some districts...
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