The Vanishing Bees Kimberly McNeilus Jill Morstad College Writing II May 2‚ 2012 Bees are an intricate part of today’s society in the form helping to produce foods and also their contribution as insects play a valuable part in nature. There is a place‚ a southern village of Sichuan‚ China where bees no longer exist. Farmers meet every April with bamboo sticks and chicken feathers to begin pollination of their crops. This long and labor-intensive process the farmers endure is due to the lack
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honeybees naturalized in the western hemisphere. Because they are highly defensive and will attack perceived intruders more readily than the common European honeybee‚ they are also known by the popular name of "killer bees." Brazilian scientists imported African honeybee queens in the 1950’s in order to breed a honeybee for use in tropical climates. Some swarms escaped into the wild. Because they were highly adapted for tropical survival and had no natural competitors‚ they thrived and spread rapidly
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in the world although few are as important as the honey bee. Honey bees are one of the most important pollinators in the world. Dancing is a form of communication exclusively used by honey bees. Although‚ bees are not only here to get jiggy. Each year‚ the bees’ pollination work is equivalent to $14 billion dollars in the United States alone. On a global scale‚ these bees would make around $215 billion dollars. Without Honey Bees‚ some of our most important crops would take a devastating loss in
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surface of the globe‚ then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees‚ no more pollination‚ no more plants‚ no more animals‚ no more man‚” Albert Einstein once stated(goodreads). Bees have been a critical aspect of all premise of nature. They have flourished for millions of years and have survived as servants of nature. Humans have continuously relied on the natural life processes of bees. The honey bees are a keystone species within the biosphere because their unique abilities balances
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Barnett‚ Misty Carl W Simpson COM 100- section 107 4 November 2010 “The Importance of Bees” General Purpose: to inform Specific Purpose: to inform my audience of the importance of bees‚ and the recent decline in their numbers due to the colony collapse disorder. Central Idea: I hope my audience walks away with the knowledge that we are dependent on bees for a variety of things‚ and of their unexplained deterioration in numbers. Introduction I’m sure everyone in this room enjoys
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for up to a mile. Most bees only attack with 10-20 bees but Africanized Honey Bees swarm with hundreds of bees. Their aggressiveness gives them the nickname “Killer Bees”. Africanized Honey Bees are a hybrid between European and African bee subspecies. They were inadvertently released into Brazil in the early 1950s. Since then‚ they have spread south to Northern Argentina and north to North America and throughout south and Central America. This widely migrated species of bees has caused a threat to
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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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Burt’s Bees manufactures and sells skin care and bath products. Roxanne Quimby started the company in Maine in 1984 selling candles made from beeswax that was the byproduct her business partner’s Burt Shavitz bee farm. In April 1997 Burt’s bees had 20 employees and bringing in revenue of $6-8 million. Their margins were about 35% of sales. Quimby has aspirations to sell the company someday but realizes that offers won’t begin until Burt’s Bees brings in $25 million in sales. The question is how to
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The Bees of Honey Critical reaction to the series has been mixed‚ with some characterizing the show as "offensive‚" "outrageous‚" and "exploitative‚" and others calling it "must-see TV."[6][7] The A.V. Club called the first episode a "horror story posing as a reality television program‚"[8] with others worrying about potential child exploitation.[9] James Poniewozik mostly praised the show‚ but criticized the producers for "the way that the show seems to assume that those viewers will look at
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Eng-102-12 2/12/15 Social Responsibility (Burt’s Bees) With great social status comes great social responsibility. Any company with high enough social status should take huge responsibility in leading the world in a righteous direction. Burt’s Bees has been a role model for earth-friendly‚ natural personal health care products for many years. The company creates skin care products‚ with the greater good of all in mind. An examination of Burt’s Bees will reveal its campaign to achieve an image of
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