PPT-Bees & Sustainability

Speakers 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 20000 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. 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. 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 . 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. 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.. Patti . Koranda. ISU . Beekeeping . Club. Bee + Flower = Honey. Bee Friendly Gardens. Planting guideline. Bee . Friendly. Water sources. Plant suggestion. Planting Guidelines. Sunny location preferred. 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.. 3 . simple eyes on the top of the head, . 2 . pairs of wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.. The . honey bee has been around for millions of years. If all the bees dies out we would lose many of the beautiful plants and flowers that we see today. We would also lose a lot of the foods that we eat such as apples, watermelon and oranges. . Binte. Anis. Assistant Professor. Department of Zoology. A.M.U. Aligarh. WORLD WITHOUT BEES………. “. If the bee disappeared off the. surface of the globe, then man would. only have four years of life left. . 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