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Protecting the Bees
Another job of the beekeeper is to protect his/her hives from pests such as bears, raccoons, skunks, mice, and vandals. This is achieved in a number of ways. The largest threat, that is, in relation...
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Beekeepers Stealing Honey
The beekeeper also collects honey from the bees, this helps take care of them because they will continue to work and produce honey instead of just having their reserves full. The process of collecting...
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Hard Working Honey Bees
Honey bees are essential to our survival because they pollinate huge quantities of our food supply. Commercial beekeepers are classified as such because of the many thousands of hives that they are...
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The Hackenberg Hoax
In 2006, Dave Hackenberg went to “inspect four hundred of his three thousand beehives”. The four hundred hives were left “in an old carnival lot in Florida two months earlier”. As Dave Hackenberg...
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The Great Honey Bee Catastrophe
The New York Times wrote an article around the time when Dave started sounding the alarm, which spread around the country like wildfire. Soon thereafter, a “group of scientists joined forces with...
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Beginning Research of Colony Collapse Disorder
A group of scientists collected samples of the bees from many different hives of both healthy and hives that are about to collapse from CCD. The samples consisted of adult bees, “pollen, wax, and...
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Parasites in Bees
Another field that was explored by scientists led by Jeffery S. Pettis was the possibility that known hive pests such as the Varroa mites, tracheal mites, and Nosema. First the scientists researched...
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Viruses in Bees
Diana Cox-Foster who is the lead scientist for the study of the honey bee viruses came the conclusion that the bees who had CCD “’were harboring every known virus that we could detect using our...
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Chemicals in Bees
Maryann Frazier, who is in charge of examining the chemicals that bees are exposed to, chemicals such as pesticides, and medicine used to treat the bees for parasites. The scientists found no...
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Save the Honey Bees Presentation.
This is a presentation about saving the honey bees that was made using Prezi. If there are any questions, please feel free to comment. http://prezi.com/ecv9fc0ukp3e/save-the-honey-bees/
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