PPT-Verification: Birds and Bees

Megan DeWitt North Central Missouri College April Mason University of Missouri Verification Roadmap Introduction Who should be verified and why Standard Verification Verification tracking groups. Crisis = Danger and Opportunity. The bad news is dire. Increasing threats to honey bees abound. Winter losses, summer losses, weakened bees. Invasive predators, i.e. mites, small hive beetle, etc.. Loss of habitat, contaminated habitat. 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: 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.. conspecific. has recently been attacked. Llandres. , A.L., . Gonzalvez. , F.G., & Rodriguez-. Girones. , M.A.. Social vs. Solitary Bees. Related bees live together. Infertile females. Division of labor. 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. Patti . Koranda. ISU . Beekeeping . Club. Bee + Flower = Honey. Bee Friendly Gardens. Planting guideline. Bee . Friendly. Water sources. Plant suggestion. Planting Guidelines. Sunny location preferred. Star-nosed mole. Lives in wet, marshy soil. Burrowing habitat in dark tunnels. Eats earthworms and other prey. Eyes are greatly reduced and even in light, visual information is not prioritized. Uses sense of touch to find food and navigate. Small, helpful, peaceful friends!!!!. By: AG. Introduction. The scientific name is Arthropod. It is also called Hymenoptera. Honey bees make honey. Honey bees are peaceful , helpful workers. There are three different types of honey bees: queens workers, and drones. 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.. (. Osmia lignaria. ) at each site. - Control treatment with no environmental exposure. - Bee diversity survey: visual, aerial netting, pan traps. - Vegetative surveys: 1x1m random quadrants and 20x20m plot. 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. ENY-164 Apis mellifera L.) to Detect Tracheal Mites ( Acarapis woodi Rennie) 1 John Bonkowski, Ashley N. Mortensen, and James D. Ellis 2 1. This document is ENY-164, one of a series of the Entomolo Mud DauberMud dauber (sometimes called “dirt dauber,” “dirt digger,” “dirt dobber,” “dirt diver”, or “mud wasp”) is a name commonly applied to a numbe