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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to die out‚ the human race would follow suit in a mere matter of years. 65% of all flowering plants require bees for pollination‚ and the percentage being higher for the major crop plants‚ like corn and wheat. These crops account for $47.1 billion every year. Honey bees are responsible for one-third of the food we eat‚ meaning no bees equals no food. The first signs of danger amongst the bees began in October of 2006‚ when U.S. beekeepers began reporting losses of 30% - 90% of their hives. Colony
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Chace Jensen Dr. Butler ENGL 1103 16 January 2012 A Small Extinction‚ A Big Problem Albert Einstein once said‚ “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees‚ no more pollination‚ no more plants‚ no more animals‚ no more man” (“Einstein Once Said…”). After careful thought on this matter‚ this can be a scary concept to process. Millions of years have passed with the honey bee gracing the earth‚ and in fact‚ the honeybee is
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Since bees do not collect honey but nectar from which honey is made‚ the scientific name should actually be Apis mellifica meaning ‘honey maker’. Although apiculture refers to the honeybee‚ the vital role all bees play in the pollination of crops and flowering plants has caused apiculture to also include the management and study of non-Apis bees such as bumblebees and leafcutter bees. Some 90 million years ago‚ flowering plants first appeared on earth. The wasp-like ancestors of bees took advantage
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In the past decade it has become common to hear the buzz about how the bees are disappearing. This may not seem like huge news at first‚ but when you take a look at all the important work bees do‚ this becomes a much heavier topic. Bees are the main pollinator in the United States and their disappearance would have grave effects on our food industry. Since this issue has been brought to the light‚ there have been many different options researched for possible solutions. These range from doing nothing
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net/read/Aesop/Aesop.html The first fable I remember my parents telling me as a child was “The Tortoise and the Hare”‚ so this prompted me to decide to do my first Web Form on Aesop. This website ended up getting a 9/10 only because I couldn’t find out when it was updated last. This site has a little about Aesop’s life‚ even though not much was known about it. It also has a list of his fables. I think it’s a decent website‚ because it has a list of all the fables Aesop wrote (that is known to us)
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What kind of bees live inside the bee hive? There are three kind of honey bees that live inside a bee hive. Those three bees are‚ The Queen‚ Worker‚ and the Drone. They all have their distinctive jobs to do. And how do bees survive the coldness of the winter season? The Queen has the longest body compared to the other two types of bees. She is equipped with a stinger that does not have a fish hook like barb at the end of the stinger. The purpose of the stinger is to kill any rival queen when she
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The activity of bees and their lives are strongly influenced by the changing seasons. Each month brings about new changes in behavior to a beehive and its occupants. Obviously‚ a beehive is less active during the colder months and more active when the weather is warm‚ but that doesn’t mean you get to ignore the hive completely while they are inactive. That raises the question: is it better to start a beehive in cold weather or warm weather? Understanding how and when bee activity is altered due to
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Colony Collapse Disorder is a phenomenon‚ which happens when the majority of the worker bees abandon a queen and vanish. They also leave behind a lot of nourishment and nurse bees to look after the staying immature bees and the queen. The hives cannot support themselves without worker bees‚ so they have chance to die. Colony Collapse Disorder have declined significantly over the last 5 years. It was already known in the apiculture field as different names. Since the great number of disappearance
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become rich all at once‚ deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day. In early tellings‚ there is sometimes a commentary warning against greed rather than a pithy moral. This is so in Jean de La Fontaine’s fable of La Poule aux oeufs d’or (Fables V.13)‚ which begins with the sentiment that ’Greed loses all by striving all to gain’ and comments at the end that the story can be applied to those who become poor by trying to outreach themselves. It is only later that the morals
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