PPT-Protect Your Bees

from Varroa Mites HEALTHY BEES HEALTHY PEOPLE HEALTHY PLANET TM 1 2 Will Varroa Mites Kill My Bees 3 WHO amp WHAT is the Honey Bee Health Coalition 4 HONEY BEE HEALTH COALITION MEMBERSHIP. Intersectionality. Dr. Phoebe Godfrey, UCONN. Imagine society without…. Kiwi fruit . Oil . seed rape Runner beans . Cranberry . Turnip . rape . Lima . Realistic expectations. What do you know? – Bee biology gaps?. Bees. Bee hive – what is . needed/extra?. Apiary preparation?. Bees – you – neighbors. Beekeeping level. . Small-scale (Hobbyist). By. Helen Allen. Flowers and Insects . are partners; . they need each other. . Flowers . jostle for the bee’s attention, . using . just about every colour of the rainbow.. F. lowers . have . many colours from . BY: STEPHANE-LEIGH CHARLES. THE LIFE CYCLE OF A HONEY BEE. The queen lays each egg in a different cell of the honey comb.. As soon as the egg is laid, the larva is growing inside it.. After three days, the egg hatches and a larva crawls out.. Power of Your Yard to Protect the Food Supply. WHAT’S THE BUZZ ABOUT BEES?. Food Production. Seeds for Food. Plus Flowers! . And 1/3 of crops to feed our meat sources . THE HONEY BEE BUZZ. . . Lock in of bee decline. To meet increasing demand, beekeepers continually replace lost and diseased colonies. Incentive to do this is high rental fees . Bees (and beekeepers) have to work harder. This promotes conditions for more bee decline. Honey Bees. If a foraging bee finds flowers, after it has gorged on the nectar it flies back to the hive and then returns to the flowers with companions who take their fill of nectar.. Bees can not only tell their companions that nectar is available but where it is found. . Speaker’s Name here. Bees | Common Assumptions. All bees are aggressive. All bees give honey!. All bees cause anaphylactic shock!. Honey Bees are great pollinators!. Assumption | All Bees Sting. 20,000+ bee species in the world. Ms. . Madlon. Bees… in general. There are over 20,000 species of bees in the world. . They are found on every continent except Antarctica.. Most bees are communal – they live with many other bees in a colony.. Credit: Ian McGuire. Figure 1. European honey bees only send out 10-20 guard bees when disturbed.. Credit: Ian McGuire. Figure 5. A large hollow tree cavity suitable for a European honey bee nest.. ACTIVISTS. “This sounds interesting and I want to explore new things”. . They have joined the network. Some may still be thinking about participating, some may have completed a task or two. Many explorers join in here, get their feet wet and never leave the group. They know about the program and may become evangelists. You will also find honey bees, careerists and activists in the explorer group waiting to be found.. 4000 species of bees native to North America including 470 native to New York are the primary pollinators of most wild31owers and food crops in the US and Canada Populations of many native bees and th OALA AWARD Imagine a Toronto with flourishing natural habitats and an that will be critical to the preservation of our flora and fauna. contribution to the number of bees in the following generation. care about them!. Bees are insects.. . They have a three part body and six legs. They also have 2 pairs of wings.. A honey bee. How many different bees are there?. There are about 260 species of bee in the United Kingdom. .