Honey Bees and Wasp Two types of bugs that everybody simply knows to avoid are the Honey Bee and the common wasp. Both of these bugs share specific qualities that make them alike and different. One quality that possess both similarities and differences is the stingers and the processes associated with them in both bugs‚ while a similarity alone is the color scheme that both of the bugs have. As many people know‚ Honey Bees and wasp are fairly dangerous‚ and this is due to their stingers. When aside
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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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childhood. Being the apple capital of the state‚ it’s only natural that a multitude of honey bees inhabit the area . After all‚ who else is going to pollinate all of the apple orchards? These little guys have mixed reviews throughout the area: some call them “Friend‚” while others cry “Foe!”. Nonetheless‚ the benefits of having honey bees around include more than bountiful apple crops and copious amounts of ooey-gooey honey. In fact‚ research within the past decade has found that bees are good for more
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AFRICANIZED HONEY BEES Africanized Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Africanized honeybees are commonly called killer bees. They are native to Europe and Africa and Asia. They are a mixture between Apis mellifera ligustica and Apis mellifera iberiensis. The Africanized honey bees in the Western Hemisphere are descended from queen bees (A. m. scutellata) accidentally released by a bee-keeper in 1957 near Rio Claro‚ São Paulo in from the southern part of Africa (Collet 2011). They
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Honey Badgers Don’t Care One of the most interesting creatures that I have learned about from the internet would be the honey badger. Honey badgers‚ also known as ratel‚ are a weasel type of creature‚ native to Africa‚ Southwest Asia‚ and the Indian subcontinent. Being called a honey badger‚ one would think it was an animal similar to a badger‚ when in fact it is more like a weasel. The honey badger is the only species of the genus Mellivora. Originally in the 1860s it was assigned to the
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Honey Bees Are Now on the List Honey bees are now on the endangered species list‚ and it’s the fault of humans. If they become extinct in the near future‚ then the life that people know now‚ would become very different. People need to help save the honey bees‚ or else they could lose a lot of foods that they need to survive. One main reason that the honey bees are on the endangered species list‚ is simply‚ humans. The government and outside construction companies‚ send construction workers to
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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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The result of the honey bee pollination indirectly supports an exceedingly broad list of species. Honeybees support both plant and animal as the plants cannot spread and reproduce without the honeybee or similar pollinator spreading its pollen. Several animals also rely on the plants that are being pollinated by the honey bees; this pattern follows up the entire food chain. “Honeybees are critical to global agriculture
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The book I selected is called Horsefly and Honeybee‚ which is a fiction book written by Randy Cecil.This book is about a horsefly and a honey bee who fought over a flower and each lost a wing. Because they could no longer fly they were captured by a bullfrog and soon to be eaten. But‚ they decided to work together and use the remaining wings they had to fly away. By doing so‚ they escaped‚ became friends‚ and shared the flower. This book is at the instructional level for the majority of the class
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Bomb Detecting Honey-Bees Abstract Police and military personnel have been using dogs to sniff out explosives for decades. According to scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory‚ Mexico who have been working with honeybees since 1999‚ believe that bees can actually challenge dogs when it comes to sense of smell. The buzzing insects that seek out molecular hints of the pollen to make honey can easily detect other minute particles in the air‚ including traces of materials used to make bombs
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