Honey Bee Report

Events such as the human hive collapsing are foreshadowed when August tells Lily, “Well, if you have a queen and a group of independent-minded bees that split off from the rest of the hive and look for another place to live, then you’ve got a swarm” (Kidd 93). The independent-minded bee is May, when she goes off and drowns herself, she tries to find a better place to live. As a result, the house erupts into tears, anger, and depression. The next link is with the worker bees, who leave the hive to collect the nectar, which is later turned into honey. In the novel, the worker bees are August, Zach, and their new companion, Lily.

A touching story of a young teenage girl’s way to healing and of finding. Not only wholeness, but the sacredness of living in this crazy world. It shows the simple feelings and the overcoming within struggles in the flow of time. The Secret Life of Bees is a book about love, pain, courage, and being strong; it’s an outstanding, hard, and crazy adventure of one young teenage girl looking for her mother. Confirming that a family can be found where it’s least expected.

Every day millions of honey bees fly back and forth from their hives. They pollinate a plethora of flowers and produce great amounts of honey. Many people do not realize what bees do for them and their communities. Without bees, people would not have any fresh flowers or produce. The bee population helps provide growth to one-third of the food in the world (Haltiwanger).

A scout bee will look for a new nest, like Lily’s mother finding “Tiburon, S.C.” After the scout returns, the rest of the bees move to start a new colony. “On leaving he old nest the swarm normally flies only a few metres and settles. Scout bees look for a suitable place to start the new colony. Eventually, one location wins favor and the whole swarm takes to the air” (p. 40).

She remarks that “the bees remained there, like planes on a runway not knowing they’d been cleared for takeoff... I tapped the glass, even laid the jar on its side, but those crazy bees stayed put” (28). Lily believes the bees

Finally, Janie has discovered the love like that between the bee and its

All Because of a Love for Honey Imagine you are all alone in the wilderness, your food supply is dwindling and the only thing that stands between you and your favorite treat-- delectable, mouthwatering honey-- are a few bees. This occurred in the novel “The Sign of the Beaver” by Elizabeth George Speare. One morning as an Indian chief silently walked through the woods, he heard a sound of a human.

Amy barth’s purpose in writing “ Rise of the zombees” is to recount that to teach you about them. Some schools have taken on zombee sightings as a class project. You can set up light traps to attract bees. Which seeks people such as beekeepers and kids in classrooms to help look for zombees. Be on the lookout for bees walking in circles on the sidewalks or by lights at

A honey bees ' wings stroke 11,400 times per minute, making a distinctive buzzing noise (Delaplane). There are many things that people don’t know about bees. Such as when beekeeping started, the difference between hobbyist and commercial beekeepers. There are also different types of bees, different types of honey and different uses of honey. Most people are perfectly fine never encountering a bee or knowing anything about them.

Many people may wonder how bees are like humans in ways. In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel “The Secret Life Of Bees”, Lily is a young girl whose mother died when she was a child. She is than being taken care of by T-ray who is a terrible father, as he doesn’t help Lily take care of herself. Lily has a mother like figure though whose name is Rosaleen, the families “maid”.

Bees in Decline Honey bees visit around 50-100 different flowers in one collection trip for honey; What would happen if millions of hives are declining in populations? The decline in bees is a serious problem that could cause the beautiful spring colors to turn dark and saturated without colors. This epidemic is worldwide, and could be a serious problem, more than one third of what goes on your plate is made with products that have been pollinated by bees (The Bees in). The bees have been declining in most of Europe because of the rough cold winters they have had the past years dropping their populations by almost 53%, as well as pesticides dropping the populations and killing of the entirety of a single hive ().

Every day bees are disappearing from their colonies at dangerously rapid rates. Everyone should become bee keepers and/or have bee gardens. It is the peoples’ duty to protect and save the bees. Bees play a major role in our everyday lives, and they go unnoticed. Without bees our food supply would quickly decrease.

Firstly, the author brings the point that there are no fossil remains of actual bees. The earliest preserved body of a bee goes back to 100 years age, only half as old as the fossilized structures discovered in Arizona. The lecturer brings the point that it is right that we have no fossil evidence. But, it is because of there was not sticky liquid at that time. Rarely, do those trees were at that time

Save the Bees! When most people think of bees, they think of noisy and annoying insects. People focus on the most “dangerous” part of the bee, which is it’s stinger. Many of us have had unfortunate encounters with bees. Maybe it was during the summer and we were at a picnic eating a watermelon.

Mites have been responsible for the collapse of millions of honey bee colonies over the past decade. For example, the invasive parasitic mite Varroa destructor is the biggest problem for honey bees worldwide. Over the past few decades, is has been spread out of southeast Asia and reached almost a global presence. The mites have responsible for collapsing a colony of 50,000 – 60,000 honey bees can be completely wiped out by a Varroa infestation in as little as 2 years. Mites cause damage to developing honey bees.