Katrin Schwender English 9H Period 8 Mrs. Catandella September 25‚ 2012 Summer Reading Assignment Quote Analysis for Chapter One: “The Queen‚ for her part‚ is the unifying force of the community; if she is re moved from the hive the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours‚ or even less‚ they show unmistakeable signs of queenlessness”(1) The Secret Life of Bees author‚ Sue Monk Kidd chose this specific quote for this chapter most likely because it resembles Lily’s
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A Man Created a Homemade Beehive in Order to Save the Bees…His Invention Has Spread All Over the World Nowadays‚ bees are extremely popular in the media because their population is declining‚ as well as the number of the food that they produce. According to reports‚ the number of beehives is declining rapidly and the reasons for this are the climate changes and the use of mites and pesticides. As people are becoming more and more aware of the seriousness of this problem‚ they are trying as best
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Tree Sculpture by Roxy Paine Staff Writer Blake Gopnik wrote a newspaper article in Washington Post on Sunday‚ November 1‚ 2009 about Art review on Roxy Paine’s ’Graft’ at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden. The Graft Tree Sculpture was done by Roxy Paine in Washington DC on January 1 2012. Tree sculpture was posted as an inspiring symbol of art for celebrating happy New Year in Washington‚DC. This was presented as Sculpture Garden at the Gallery of Arts. Most diverse and peculiar carvings
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Natural selection is the driving force in evolution because it is what trait offspring. There are many cases of evidence showing this such as the peppered moth population‚ the blue mussels‚ and the finches that we studied. The peppered is a very good example of natural selection because there is already black moths in the population‚ but the peppered survived better before the industrial revolution.Though when the industrial revolution comes in the lichens on the trees die and the peppered moth
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Honey bees are one of the matriarchies in the insect kingdom. Colonies consist of one queen‚ a lot of male worker bees‚ and a few male drones. Ninety-five percent of the worker bees are female. A healthy hive is occupied by a collection of many generations. Tasks are divided up by age and colony through an intricate system of communication. Younger worker bees tend to the queen and the baby bees. Older worker bees forage for food and water for the colony‚ convert nectar into honey‚ construct wax
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Save the Honey Bees! What are Honey bees? Honeybees‚ or Apis Mellifera‚ are one of the most familiar insects in the world according to GPMC.org. There are more than one species of honeybee in the world that span from Southeast Asia to Europe. The four different species include The Little Honeybee‚ The Eastern Honey bee‚ The Giant Honeybee‚ and the Western Honeybee. Additionally there are three types of Honeybees inside of any given hive and those are The Queen‚ The worker bee‚ and the drone bee
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Protect the Bees Author id: 0963 Word Count: Proposed species: Bees Proposed action: Protect What are bees? Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants‚ and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea‚ presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20‚000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families‚ though many are described and the actual number
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Albert Einstein was believed to say‚ “If the bee disappears from the surface of the globe‚ man would have no more than four years to live.” Now that Colony Collapse Disorder is occurring‚ it is possible that bees will disappear. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is when bees disappear from their hives or suddenly die. No one knows the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder. Some think it is caused by pesticides‚ but Bryan Walsh wrote that the cause is the Varroa mite. It could be that CCD is caused by a
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WHAT IS HONEY I Introduction Honey is made by bees in one of the world’s most efficient facilities‚ the beehive. The 60‚000 or so bees in a beehive may collectively travel as much as 55‚000 miles and visit more than two million flowers to gather enough nectar to make just a pound of honey!(National Honey Board‚2010) II Body 1.0 History of honey 1.1 The oldest written reference to honey dates back to the Egyptians in 5‚500 B.C.E.‚ and references to honey abound in antiquity
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Often‚ to embrace others‚ one must uncover their motherly nature. In The Secret Life of Bees this statement is frequently true and displayed through many situations. The Secret Life of Bees is an insightful novel which shows the importance of embracing others in tragic situations. The novel begins with the main character‚ Lily‚ explaining how at night she lies in bed and watches the bees which fly around her room. Following the death of her mother‚ Lily lives with Rosaleen‚ a maid‚ and her father
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