While sitting outside on a sunny day‚ I saw bees flying around me. I quickly got up and started to walk away. I was a little angry they had ruined my peacefulness. I muttered to myself “I wish bees would die.” A few months later in my biology class‚ we had to read an article about Honeybees and how they pollinate. I was very interested in how these insects contribute to our world. In the article‚ it also mentioned about the bees vanishing. I instantly desired to get this important information out
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known how to fly. Bats are nocturnal‚ which means they sleep during the day‚ and are awake at night. Bess are interesting animals. The honey bee can fly 15 miles per hour! A hive of honey bees has about 40‚000 bees in it. An attribute of the honey bee i that is has 5 eyes. A worker bee will make 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey over its lifetime. Bees have been making honey for about 150 million years. Did you know that a person can live without water for a whole month? A human can only live for one week
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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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Biopesticides: A Better Alternative for a Healthy Future For decades‚ the metaphorical story of the “Birds and the Bees” has been told to children in order to explain sexual intercourse. Since honey bees are an important part of the fertilization process among plants‚ also known as pollination‚ this story is a good way of speaking openly about the subject without using technical terms. When a honey bee lands on a flower‚ their feet slip into little grooves that hold pollen sacks which they carry with them
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Lanham Mrs. Travis E-Team/English 4-25-2014 The Bees Are About to be Gone Since the beginning of the industrial era humans have begun to dominate the earth’s environments as well as resources; through this cause we have damaged one of the global ecosystem’s most important links in the food web. The honeybee is the world’s most efficient and widespread pollinator. Honeybees provide the crucial harmony between insects and plants; as the bees spread the pollen to flowers propagating the reproduction
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are vital to the argricultural security of the United States as well as the entire world. Without their pollination process‚ many crops around the world would fail. “Of the 100 crops that provide 90% of the world’s food‚ 71 are bee pollinated‚ and honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are the managed pollinator conscripted to provide the necessary pollination services for most of these crops” (Frazier et al 2015). It is important for the Honeybee population to remain stable‚ but pesticides used by farmers
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Pesticides and fertilizers are used to increase the yield of a crop. The pesticide Sevin is the third most used‚ yet it is deadly to honey bees (Goldmark). This is concerning especially with how low the honey bee population already is. Also‚ the bees pollinate the very crops that are killing them. Not only are honey bees suffering but humans are too. A majority of the pesticides found in children come from their diet (Griswold). In an ideal world there would be no trace of any
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Save the Bees! For many people‚ seeing any insect with a stinger invokes foul memories of being tormented by a menacing bee‚ wasp‚ or hornet. Many victims might recall a moment of sudden panic while sitting on the edge of the pool on a warm summer day; they suddenly hear an incessant buzzing noise and look down to see a tiny yellow and black bumblebee flying dangerously close to their skin. There is no time to discern the intent of this bee‚ be it malevolent or benign. Immediately‚ the primeval
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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 Jim Mason at gpnc.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
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Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) -- also called Africanized bees or killer bees -- are descendants of southern African bees imported in 1956 by Brazilian scientists attempting to breed a honey bee better adapted to the South American tropics. When some of these bees escaped quarantine in 1957‚ they began breeding with local Brazilian honey bees‚ quickly multiplying and extended their range throughout South and Central America at a rate greater than 200 miles per year. In the past decade‚ AHB began
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