The honey bee is a subset of bees in the genus Apis‚ it is black and yellow in colour and is no longer than an inch in size. They are distinguished by the production and the storage of honey and construction of perennial‚ colonial hives out of wax. The insect’s habitat is mainly meadows‚ woods and gardens; the bee usually makes its nest in hollow trees. The habitats are advantageous for the bees due to the growth of flowering plants in that area. Figure 1 The Honeybee seems to have originated in
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pumpkin‚ zucchini‚ macadamia‚ passion fruit‚ vanilla‚ or honey? Did you know that all of these foods are reliant on pollination from bees to produce more food? Since the 1980’s habitat destruction of pollinating insects has made these crops reliant on honey farms to bring in bees to pollinate their crops‚ but since 2007 we have had some of the largest decline in bee numbers on record. As I have mentioned in my first speech‚ I have my own bee hive. This is my second year with my hive‚ it’s doing pretty
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Animal Research: Honey Bee The honey bee‚ also known as the western honey bee‚ is an important insect to our ecosystem and everyday lives. Without the honey bee‚ we and other animals would not be here for so long. Honey bee’s main purpose is to pollinate flowers and plants to retrieve nectar to make honey. In return‚ fruits and yummy flowers bloom for all to consume due to being fertilized by the bees. Bees only have a lifespan of about 4-6 weeks depending on the time of season‚ so it’s very important
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vanishing. Most people may say‚ “ehh bees aren’t important‚ they just make honey”. Which is not true‚ bees play a huge role in our daily life. Did you know that bees pollinate one third of out diet? Without bees there wouldn’t be apples‚ oranges‚ melons or broccoli. Most people just don’t understand the seriousness of this problem! There has been a lot of misunderstanding and confusion when it comes to the reasoning of this bee problem. Up to this day there still isn’t an answer. Some have said‚ some
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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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started the use of animal products since time immemorial even at the cost of animal’s life. Honey has been under use in human civilization since prehistoric period as mentioned in our religious literatures like Vedas‚ Purans‚ Ramayan‚ Maharabharat and Charak Sanghita. Some foreign travellers like Fahiyan and Whenson had also discussed the use of honey as medicine. People were very much dependent upon honey for medicines and essential nutritive elements of the diet. The highly evolved social organisation
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(KVIC) scheduled the next morning‚ Pradip Mohanty‚ Coordinator of Sarvodaya Samiti‚ wondered what would be the best course of action for his organization as he was concerned about the large number of honey bee-keepers associated with the Samiti. He knew that his action will have implications for the local honey industry in general and the beekeepers in specific. He had to decide on the linkages of his organization with KVIC and its presence in different core activities like production‚ processing‚ and
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insects are to us. The act of commercial bee keeping became the mass market it is now due in large part to a man named James Harbison. He was a bee keeper that had learned the craft from his father. He moved from a farm in Pennsylvania to a plot of
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and makes the bees more prone to choosing the addictive crop than non-tainted alternatives. Many beekeepers and studies are suggesting that colonies that have pollinated neonicotinoid-infected plants‚ are suffering from rapidly declining colony populations. However‚ there are not many studies within this specific topic area‚ making many test results unreliable and juristically different compared to others. The last argument this article makes is if honeybees are using pesticide-infected pollen‚ then
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As bees are pollinators their death would mean that we would lose at least one-third of all our world’s crops. Bees pollinate about two-hundred billion dollars worth of crops worldwide("Wild bee population down due to wide pesticide use." EKantipur.com). If we were to lose that many crops there would be mass food shortages and even famine in lesser developed countries. Other than just crops wildflowers and other wild plants would also die off in
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