...threaten the experimental use of bee pollen. In his documentary entitled: Won’t You Please Help Us with the Bees? Jon Stewart argues for the continued extraction and production of bee pollen for medical purposes. Stewart uses many rhetorical strategies in his argumentative film. Stewart details the debate as this: local farmers and beekeepers have, historically, held all rights as owners of the pollen and honey produced by bees. Therefore, farmers and beekeepers who own the bees reserve all rights (and risks) that accompany managing bees and their pollen. However, in 2006, the FDA enacted the Please the Bees Act, which enabled corporations and contractors to “seize the bees” if any potential outbreak of bees threatened the safety of residents who lived near bees. Also, since the pollen has not been inherently recognized by the FDA as a legitimate cure and preventative treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, the farmers and beekeepers posses no real ownership of any profits or rights that may occur as a result of selling the pollen at local farmer’s markets, retails stores, or pharmacies. This debate has created a problem for: farmers, beekeepers, the FDA, pharmaceutical companies, and citizens who...
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...Consumer: This will be all of our consumers that have either purchased our honey products or called for our beekeeping service. This entity will include the Consumers First Name, Last Name, and their Address in order to keep track of where they are ordering from. The location of the ConsumerCounty is important because it will determine from which county the honey they will receive is going to come from and also, which beekeeper to send out if they choose to hire our beekeeping service. This entity will also include the consumer’s Phone Number and Email Address in case we have to call them about their order or if we decide to send out newsletters and coupons by email. Finally, this entity will identify each consumer with a unique ConsumerID. Vendor: The attributes in this entity will compile a list of all the beekeepers we subcontract in order to supply our honey. These will include the beekeeper’s VendorName, VendorAddress, and Vendor PhoneNumber in case we have to contact them via mail or phone call. However, mainly we will need their VendorEmail and which VendorCounty they are operating in. Furthermore, we will identify these Vendors with their VendorID, and more importantly which ColonyID they are operating. Service: This entity will include only two attributes, which include ServiceID to identify which service (beekeeping) we have performed and in which ServiceCounty the service was located in. Equipment: Equipment entity will include a list of all the equipment used...
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...In this poem, Sylvia Plath expresses a desire to be in control. She feels she has to deal with a dangerous situation. At first she is not in control. She panics. She has a debate with herself and then she makes a calm decision. Silvia Plath wrote this poem in seven five-line stanzas followed by a single line. On one level Plath is simply recalling a personal incident. The story of the poem concerns a task with a bee box. In the first stanza she states that it looks like ‘square’, like a midget’s coffin, heavy and noisy: ‘such a din in it’. The word ‘coffin’ suggests death. The overall description of the bee-box is strange and disturbing. In the second stanza, the bee box both frightens and attracts Plath. She stares in at the bees through a little wire grid. The box is ‘locked’ because its contents are ‘dangerous’. Yet Plath ‘can’t keep away from it’. She examines the box and considers opening it. But she is faced with the threat that what is inside may injure her. Yet, she feels she has to 'to live with it overnight'. In the third stanza, she regards the bees as angry slaves that seek release and revenge: ‘Black on black, angrily clambering’. Through the wire grid she sees darkness. She imagines the bees are like army divisions of blackness that she associates with ‘the swarmy feeling of African hands’. She is in a state of alarm. In the fourth stanza, the buzzing noise puts her off releasing the bees. She fears their bee language and now regards them as an aggressive...
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...pollinated by bees, you start to think differently. One third may be pollinated by bees, but at least another third relies on the pollination of honeybees. Yet the bee colonies are starting to disappear. The movie tries to explain why and how while showing how they are being treated in different environments. The movie describes brilliantly how the bees live: how they work together in their hive from the moment they are born. They remain loyal to their family no matter what and work to create a queen and keep the colony running like clockwork. The movie shows the many reasons that together make the lethal combination for the bees: toxins, transportation and diseases. To say honestly, it is heartbreaking, even for the viewer, to see a beekeeper open a hive and see thousands of little dead bodies on the ground with no particular reason. I guess that is what the movie relies on - the compassion and heart of the viewer. In China, once Mao Zedung told to kill all the sparrow because they eat the seeds on the crops. As a result there were so many insects that they had to start destroying them too. Due to that in some districts, bees have died out. The filmmakers showed one district in China where they sell pollen and people hand-pollinate their plants. The time difference between humans and bees is significant and you could clearly tell that it is not a sustainable way of life. In USA hundreds of bee colonies are kept in a frequently travelling bee farm. Because the farm travels...
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...Hi I am Tim Jones and I love Bees I mean love so I am going to discover at a honey bee hive in a tree chuck at New York. I am there now the hive looks so wierd from the outside and so many bees I can not count so bees than I remember before I came here they told me their are 80,000 bees so be careful thats so many I can not count that I mind hands. There were some bees outside I look at it and I was starting to discover it for a seacond this is what it look like! It had 6 legs and 3 main body parts that were a antennae,eyes,jointed legs and hard exoskeleton. The other 3 main body parts are head,thorax and abdomen. Also they have a pollen sack a compound and a eye a back legs,middle leg,fore legs. Geting to a cool parts of the bee body parts are the proboscis the stinger thats one of the very cool parts of the bee body parts with and also fore wings and the back wings. The bee body is about 3/4 of an inch long that is very cool to me. The fur of the bee is reddish brown and black with orangerings on their back their head and antnnae and legs are black not alot colerful but else they have colered. THEY LIVE HERE? Now I know were the amesome menmade anmails were they live thats cool aka I am talking about bees.Every place I go to about bees I see them liveing all around this place and I am going to tell you about you were they live. Some bees live in hives I think every buddy knows that has. I was saying some bees live in holes of a tree like this one and live in tree...
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...Larkrise Community Farm – Apiary (Bee husbandry - Teaching unit) Hive 1 Hive 2 Hive 5 GABLED SHED [3m x 2.4m] Hive 6 Hive 3 Hive 7 Hive 4 Spare hive stands GABLED SHED [3m x 2.4m] Windows Left and Right to observe hives, 50cm benches with storage underneath for 45x45cm square hive parts (supers and spare brood boxes etc.) Teaching Equipment: Lions International – District 105D, Zone C Bradford on Avon Lions – Hive 1 (£300, complete hive) Trowbridge Lions – Hive 2 (£300, complete hive) Warminster Lions – Hive 3 (£300, complete hive) Westbury Lions – Hive 4 (£300, complete hive) GMS Lions – Hive 5 (£300, complete hive) Shed, concrete base and fencing (£1200) Radio microphone based PA system to relay info to students in teaching sessions (£200), Books, stools and posters Note: Spare hive stands (6-7) will be used by local bee keepers in exchange for monitoring the Larkrise (Lions funded) hives. Three spare stands are available for overflow or nucleus rearing/selling Source for general supplies (frames, foundation, smokers, tools etc.) http://www.thorne.co.uk/ [Use Wiltshire Bee Keepers Association (WBKA) as this will save delivery costs] http://www.bbwear.co.uk/ [For protective clothing] http://www.exmoorbeesandbeehives.co.uk/ [For National Hives, and have parts] In future years 5 hives should generate ≈300lb of honey PA with a potential resale value of ≈ £1200 which should easily cover replacement hives and recourses costs. Larkrise Community...
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...Reading & Math at www.k5learning.com Reading Comprehension Worksheet Read the passage. Choose the best answer for each question. THE BEE Bees live in a house that is called a hive. There are three kinds of bees: workers, drones, and queens. Only one queen bee can live in each hive. If she is lost or dead, the other bees will stop their work. Bees are very wise and busy little creatures. They all join together to build cells of wax for their honey. Each bee takes its proper place and does its own work. Some go out and gather honey from the flowers; others stay at home and work inside the hive. The cells which they build are all of one shape and size, and no room is left between them. The cells are not round. They have six sides. Did you ever look into a glass hive to see the bees while at work? It is pleasant to see how busy they always are. But the drones do not work. Before winter comes, all the drones are driven from the hive so that they don’t eat the honey which they did not gather. It is not safe for children to handle bees. Bees have a painful sting that they use in their defense. Try our online reading & math program. 14 day free trial. www.k5learning.com Reading & Math at www.k5learning.com Questions 1. How many sides does a cell in the hive have? a. Three b. Four c. Six d. Seven 2. What happens to the drones in the winter? a. They sleep. b. They find a new hive. c. They are driven out. d. They repair the hive. 3. Which is...
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...The Tyranny of the Queen Bee - WSJ.com 3/4/13 6:58 AM http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323884304578328271526080496?mg=reno64-wsj.html?dsk=y Page 1 of 8 John Kuczala The Tyranny of the Queen Bee By PEGGY DREXLER Kelly was a bright woman in her early 30s: whip-smart, well qualified, ambitious— and confused. Even a little frightened. She worked for a female partner in a big consulting firm. Her boss was so solicitous that Kelly hoped the woman—one of just a few top female partners—might become her mentor. But she began to feel that something was wrong. In meetings, her boss would dismiss her ideas without discussion and even cut her off in mid-sentence. Kelly started to hear about meetings to which she wasn't invited but felt she should be. She was excluded from her boss's small circle of confidants. What confused Kelly was that she was otherwise doing well at the firm. She felt respected and supported by the other senior partners. She had just one problem, but it was a big one. One of the male partners pulled The Tyranny of the Queen Bee - WSJ.com 3/4/13 6:58 AM http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323884304578328271526080496?mg=reno64-wsj.html?dsk=y Page 2 of 8 her aside and confirmed Kelly's suspicions: Her boss had been suggesting to others that Kelly might be happier in a different job, one "more in line with her skills." I met Kelly while I was conducting research on women in the workplace. She was trying to puzzle through...
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...On a hot summer day I was playing by myself when I heard a buzz sound. As I walked closer it was getting louder and louder. The loung grass made me ichy on my leg when I was walking. Just then I saw a bees flying right past me. More and More were coming. I walked a littel bit closer and I saw the bee hive. I noticed that there were bees working inside the hive. When I was reading my book last night I read about worker bees and all bees have jobs. Worker bees have jobs like storing the pollen, garding the hive, do work outside the hive. Also I saw the queen bee in the back of the hive. I took a step back because it was so big and I was scared of the queen bee. The queen bee jobs are to lay eggs and mate the other bees to lay more eggs. After...
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...honey bees from extinction, it is important to first understand what honey bees do. It is also important to know how beekeepers take care of bees so that more beekeepers may be trained for future bees to thrive and for others to be knowledgeable of the bees. Commercial beekeepers transport their bees all around the United States to pollinate the US food supply. Research of colony collapse disorder or CCD, which is the reason for the bees disappearing, is important so bee keepers and scientists can prevent further cases of CCD. Understanding What Honey Bees Do. Honey bees are an important creature that balances the ecosystem. Understanding what bees do is important to maintaining their survival, as well as ours. The major objective of any bee is to form a nest; in the case of honey bees their nest is a hive. In order to build their house, a queen bee and some workers begin making the foundation. Once the house is completed, the workers get the queen settled in and she begins laying eggs. In captivity, the queen is confined to her quarters, which is the brood nest, where she is to lay eggs (p. 8). Where did the queen and her workers come from? If they are in the wild, they most likely came from an old hive by swarming, which is splitting and forming a new hive (Burns, 2010, p. 4). Swarming is “a normal and healthy activity in the beehive” the majority of beekeepers try and prevents it because it...
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...commercial keepers such as Menendez vs. Organic keepers such as “The Queen Bee.” (The woman in Arizona) Commercial beekeepers routinely kill the queen after only a few months and replace her with a younger artificially raised one. Beekeepers remove the queen from the hive, pinch her head and then introduce a surrogate in a cage. The cage prevents the colony from killing the foreign queen until the adapt to her scent. They also use insemination collected from male drones. They do this to select from certain traits. Another method is the practice of taking honey away from the hives and replacing it with sugar syrup. Organic beekeepers do not feed the bees sugar syrup they also are against the use of Miticides. 2. Discuss the various things that are thought to contribute to CCD. Of these, which is thought to be the most significant factor? What evidence is there to support this? Scientists turned to farming methods to explain the collapse of bees. They thought the use systemic pesticides, such as Gaucho an Poncho, were reasons why bees die. They found pesticides, but they did not know what they were doing to the bees. You would be able to see the dead bees around the hive. However, there were no dead bees in sight. 3. Why do the American Beekeepers have a difficult time selling honey? How can this contribute to the problem facing the bees? It is hard for American Beekeepers to sell honey because they are forced to go migratory because they cannot sell their honey and make a living...
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...since 1991 and was created to set out to protect and sustain the national bee stocks. A new initiative called, Healthy Bees Plan, encourages the 20,000 beekeepers in England and Wales to register and stay in close contact with the NBU. The database will play a key role in allocating the new funds allotted to honey bee protection. (National Bee Unit). Honey bee colonies are collapsing because of colony collapse disorder or CCD. There are many factors that cause CCD, such as parasites, viruses, chemicals, bacteria, and the environment, but many experts disagree on what combination of these factors actually cause CCD. Despite being considered a pest, nuisance, and some may say, dangerous, the bees are still a necessary part of agriculture. As humans, we should respond to their disappearance by helping re-populate the honey bees since many plants rely on them for pollination. Different ways to help re-populate the bees are by planting a diversity of plants around your home to lessen the potential contamination of plants, avoid the use of any pesticides, and lastly, take up bee keeping as a hobby. Without bees, cross pollination of plants would lessen and plants will be more susceptible to diseases. Honey bees are essential to the human survival because honey bees pollinate huge quantities of the human food supply. Commercial beekeepers are classified as such because of the many thousands of beehives that they are responsible for. Parasites such as the Varroa mite,...
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...Many replaced their lower-priced crops, like grapes or cotton, with fields of almonds”. Because almond trees are now super productive, hundreds of acres in California need millions upon millions of bees to pollinate. Furthermore, these days, US beekeepers typically make more money from renting out their bees for pollination than they do from producing honey. According to FitzGerald, “In February, when a lot of winter rain sent the California almond crop into bloom, almond farmer Joe Del Bosque rented about 1,500 hives from Grissom for 180 dollars apiece”. As a result, beekeepers fill up huge trucks beehives and crisscross the country seeking pollination work. Bees can be overcrowded and experience stress from the traveling. In Engelhaupt’s article, he wrote, “While California beekeeper Orin Johnson prepares his bees for the coming almond season, hundreds of trucks loaded with beehives are bearing down on his state. They are all headed for the...
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...In the article, ‘Mystery malady kills more bees, heightening worry on farms’, published in the New York Times (28, September, 2013, pp.8-10), Michael Winesmarch argues that in recent years about half of the honeybee population has been destroyed; new pesticides may be responsible for the deaths, which have affected the fruit and vegetable industries. Winesmarch explains that the pesticide industry disputes the claims made as there is a lack of supporting research to suggest otherwise; even though, beekeepers have expressed their concerns about the increasing rate of losses, which they have never experienced before. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) responded by sending chemical experts to assess and discuss the severity of the problem...
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...Esplana (2013) cited that the estimated total demand of honey in the Philippines per year is about 370 to 535 tons and only about 150 tons are produced locally which come from four species of bees namely: Apis cerana (alig), Apis dorsata (ayukan), Tetragunola spp. (stingless bees, lukot or lukotan) and the Apis mellifera (foreign/European bee). According to the National Apiculture Research Training and Development Institute (NARTDI), in 2004, there were 434 beekeepers in the country but in 2012, the number reduced by almost half, only 261 beekeepers left. Based from records gathered by NARTDI (2016), at present, there are only 202 active beekeepers with a total of 1,434 colony holdings in the Philippines. Among the regions where there are beekeeping projects, Region 1 and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), have the most number of beekeepers. With little knowledge about the honeybees and their importance to human life, it is of no doubt that there is a limited number of people who are into keeping Apis mellifera species of bees compared to other commodities like livestock and poultry which are common...
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