Save The Bees

Welcome to my final project for ENGL112W

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I just found out about Squash Bees (Eucerini Peponapis, and Eucerini Xenoglossa) and they are now my new favorite bee

They’re so fuzzy!!

They only pollinate squash and other related plants, thus the name

Friend shaped

[simonalkenmayer]

So your friends have six legs and are all rotund and fuzzy?

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France becomes first country in Europe to ban all five pesticides killing bees 

France will take a radical step towards protecting its dwindling bee population on Saturday by becoming the first country in Europe to ban a

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Hey Bee 🐝 Wannabee Friends? 🐝💛🐝💛🐝💛

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Fun facts about Beeswax

- Beeswax is made by the worker bees and is produced by the glands (WoWee!)

- It is estimated that honey bees eat 8lbs. of honey to produce 1lb. of wax (That's a LOT of honeyy ;) )

-It is used by the bees to make the honeycombs which store the honey 

- When the bees have filled each cell in the comb with honey, they cover all the cells with wax caps. (Even MORE honeyy ;) )

- At harvest time, the beekeeper cuts off the wax cappings and extracts the honey (This is then cleaned and packaged and sent out to eat…)

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There were bees on my Hydrangea on sunday ☀️🐝

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https://visual.ly/tag/honeybee 

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Birds vs. bees: Study helps explain how flowers evolved to get pollinators to specialize

Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics—unique combinations of colors, shapes, and orientations, for example—as a means of attracting specific pollinators. But a recent paper in the journal Ecology suggests that flowers that are visited almost exclusively by hummingbirds are actually designed not to lure birds, but to deter bumblebees and their wasteful visits.

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Honey Bees on Notre-Dame’s Roof Survived the Fire

The three hives are located on a roof above the sacristy—around 100 feet below the cathedral's damaged main roof

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I make a lot of bee-centered posts and many people comment how scared they are of bees, how much they hate bees or how to tell the difference between wasps and bees.

This post is focused on honey bees and wasps, which are most commonely mistaken for each other. Apiphobia, the irrational fear of bees (also known as melissophobia) is very common. And in most cases this fear comes from lack of knowledge and confusing them with wasps.

They are mistaken for each other primarily because they both has slender bodies (compared to bumble bees) and are both capable of giving painful stings and i think that’s where the fear comes from.

Honeys bees will sting if provoked whereas wasps are naturally more aggressive. Bees are more gentle and generally only string when they feel in danger.

You can tell a bee from a wasp by the following: [honey] bees are hair while wasps usually have smooth shiny skin.

A wasps legs hang down when they are flying but when a bee flies their legs are usually hidden. A bees legs are also flatter and fluffier.

Bees help by pollinating our plants and east pollen and nector. Wasps eat human food left lying around and help us by eating other insects.

Bees are gentle in nature and rarely sting but wasps are more aggressive and ready to sting.

Why do we need Wasps?

Wasps have earned a bad reputation but despite their aggression they play a huge role in our ecosystem. Without them, the world would be overrun with spiders and insects.

Each summer, social wasps in the UK capture an estimated 14 million kilogrammes of insect prey, such as caterpillars and greenfly.

Wasps sting to slow down their prey and defend their nest and themselves. They sometimes sting us because they see us as a probable threat, even if we don’t really pose one.

Unlike [honey] bees, wasps don’t die from stinging. [Honey] bees sacrifice their lives as their stings have a set of tiny barbs that hook into the skin.

As much as so many of us hate wasps they are vital to our environment.

Why do we need bees?

“More than 90% of the leading global crop types are visited by bees.”

Bees are vital to our environment and our food supply. While other pollinators, like butterflies, hoverflies, wasps, even some birds collect pollen but they only visit flowers enough to feed themselves. Whereas bees are generally the most effective pollinators because they visit more flowers and carry more pollen between them.

We all know by now that there is a dangerous and worrying decline in the bee population. This decline is caused by a combination of stresses - from loss of their habitat and food sources to exposure to pesticides and the effects of climate change.

If you don’t like bees/or wasps, that’s okay. But don’t let your fear and/or hate for these creatures get in the way of the fight to save them!

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Honey Bees on Notre-Dame’s Roof Survived the Fire

The three hives are located on a roof above the sacristy—around 100 feet below the cathedral's damaged main roof

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/11/509337678/u-s-puts-first-bumblebee-on-the-endangered-species-list?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

Bee extinction is a global problem. “Since some 75 percent of food crops rely at least partially on pollinators, that raises serious concerns about the future of the global food supply.”

Source: npr.org

[doctorlombax]

BTW we talk a lot about the fruits and veggies that humans would lose if bees went extinct but it’s also worth noting that bees pollinate the coco plant as well as clover, which is a staple of the dairy cows diet.

What I’m saying here is that without bees you can also say goodbye to chocolate and milk.

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Once the bees go extinct we won’t be able to teach our children about “the birds and the bees” because we’ll all be dead.