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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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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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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Adapt a Beast: African Honeybee Africanized honey bees are already able to survive in unpredictable weather conditions. They are more evolved in this way the other species of honey bee. Africanized bees became more common than regular European honey bees. Since they can breed more quickly they became over populated. * * * In a lab in Arizona hundreds of colonies of bees were brought in to pollinate the genetically modified fruits and vegetables while they were being tested. The lab was mostly
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Expanding my Mind The romance novel‚ "The Once and Future King"‚ contains several major humanistic themes. Its central theme throughout the entire book is Arthur’s exploration of human nature regarding power and justice‚ as he tries to suppress the widespread "might is right" attitude. Through the transformations Merlyn provided Wart‚ I was able to develop my own attitude toward the subject of war. The antiwar theme became most prevalent in the chapters where Merlyn morphs Wart into different
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because‚ we would have shot him‚ but sadly it wasn’t. So we continued down this road hoping we’d spot a raccoon running in the ditch alongside a corn field when all of a sudden a badger came out. We swerved and missed him but that badger was mad. He tried to chase our pickup down but we went to fast for him. After the badger we decided to go on a different road somewhere out in the middle of nowhere where nobody lived and had no livestock we could hurt. We found this old house that was run down‚ I
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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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grapes‚ tomatoes‚ blueberries‚ alfalfa etc. In the past 50 some years‚ the population of honey bees has decreased to about half. Without these little critters‚ we will lose the majority of our produce crops‚ the lack of supply would dramatically increase prices. The lack of clover‚ a crop bees rely on as an important source to produce nectar‚ would mean a loss in the key part in the bees honey-making diet. Honey is used in the cosmetic industry‚ to produce moisturizer in creams‚ soaps‚ and shampoos
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magician‚ transforms him into many different animals. Of all the adventures‚ the most significant transformation to Wart’s kingship occurs when he becomes a badger because the badger teaches Wart valuable lessons about human behavior. Wart’s transformation into a badger provides him with insight to become a great king. The badger teaches him certain characteristics about humans which help him to rule his kingdom. For example‚ he states‚ “True warfare is what happens between bands
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Merlyn tells Wart that it’s time for him to visit a wise badger that will help Wart learn more about himself‚ life‚ society‚ and more knowledge that will progress Wart’s studies of how to be a nice ruler. As a badger‚ Wart runs into a hedgehog while he’s fed up with the absence of the other badger. Wart explodes and threatens to eat the meek hedgehog. This interaction symbolizes how when a person has power‚ whether or not they
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