Bees Building a hive When we talk about bees all we are very familiar with are the honey bees. Honey bees are the most popular type of bees as they produce one of the sweetest things. They not only produce honey but also the honey combs which are used by humans for the honey comb wax. Honey bees usually produce their honey in honeycombs in their hive‚ which they use to feed their young in colder months. They make their hive near forests‚ gardens‚ or some bushes place. Some beekeepers also keep bees
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Bees: About to Buzz Off? Where will we bee without them? What would you do if everyone you had ever met‚ died in the span of a year? Your brothers and sisters‚ the workers at the local businesses‚ even the Queen all just... died? This is called colony collapse disorder and is a current issue for bee colonies all over the world. Bees have a crucial role in the survival of most life on our planet. Some have theorised that if the bees were to die out‚ humans would follow soon after. Subsequently‚
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Colony Collapse Disorder is the phenomenon that occurs when the majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen. The crazy part of this is that there is plenty of food and a few nurse bees left to care for the remaining immature bees and the queen. There has been theory upon theory of why this is happening but no one has the for sure answer. You may be asking why is this such a big deal?! Well CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) causes significant economic losses because many agricultural
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Research paper: Honey Bees’ disappearance Bees are flying insects that are related to wasps and ants. Those insects are mostly known for their role of pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. There are about 20‚000 different species of bees around the world‚ and every single species of bees live in colonies where there are three types of bees: the queen‚ the worker‚ and the drone. However‚ a lot of scientists and beekeepers noticed since 2006 that the population of bees in world started
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Bees are amongst the most important creatures to humans on Earth. These amazing insects pollinate over 80% of all flowering plants including 70 of the top 100 human food crops. One in three bites of food that we eat is derived from plants pollinated by bees. But the role bees play in nature is likely part of a greater story. Bees have been producing honey from flowering plants for the last 10 to 20 million years. As major contributors to floral growth‚ bees provide nourishing habitats for animals
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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 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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Most people‚ when they see a bee of any kind‚ tend to swat at it in an attempt to get it to go away from them. But what many do not know is that honey bees are for the most part harmless. The chances of being stung by a honey bee are very low because they will not sting you. People tend to look at only the negatives of honey bees. But what about the positives? Honey bees help to pollinate many plants found in nature and they also help to pollinate most of the food that humans eat. So what is happening
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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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Save the Bees to Save Ourselves Bee’s are often seen as a nuisance‚ however‚ they are very important insects. They are responsible for pollinating about one-thirds of all of the world’s crops. Unfortunately over the last decade wild and managed bees have been dying off in great numbers. Bees are a vital part of their ecosystems and must be protected in order to protect our own food supply. Since the early 90’s wild bees have been dying off at an ever increasing rate‚ however‚ it was not until
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