“How in the world do annoying bees make money?” I’d like to show you how they relate, honeybees and business. I will cover a few key points that I hope will educate, through education there could be some new brave entrepreneurs created, and relax the public towards the honeybee. Honeybees are safe to own, can make good money, and stabilize the floral ecosystem.
Most people assume any insect is a buzzing stinging nuisance. I agree when it comes to mosquitoes, gnats, and especially wasps, but I am forgiving of honeybees because of how useful they are, and that they are more tolerant of humans than the other insects. Honeybees are not as predatory as the previous listed pests. Honeybees will allow a larger window of “invasion” before they alert scouts to investigate and attack. The more annoying pests have the most predatory behaviors. I found it rather comforting that honeybees are rather docile, when they get riled up they are protecting their territory by stinging perceived “invaders”.
I have fond memories of my youth when I see honeybees lumbering by, flying erratically here and there. In my earlier years, as early as 10 years old, I would help my Grandpa and Grandpa Bos with their apiary (where honeybees are housed often a shed is used) and perform apiculture (which is the care and keeping of bees). In my early 20’s I was considering expanding our apiary into a business that I could run, but the start up cost was more than I could afford at that time. Now that I am older that same start up cost is not as daunting, but I do not have the same amount of time to invest.
In the “normal” world, start up costs for a business can be rather detailed and confusing; you need loans, investors and liens. Beekeeping has a relatively ...
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People are not typically willing to pay more for anything these days, my mother-in-law is no exception. One day my mother-in-law visited an apiary she has on her route (she is a postal worker) She bought a rather generous portion of honey in a Mason jar for $10. I was impressed with the amber color and how pure the quality was. Looking at the off brand honey in comparison it looked like water.
We can satisfy our global responsibility by buying local honey because it is “green”, not the color, but the lower carbon footprint in the production process. In addition, you are are stimulating the local economy as well as supporting your local community. So for that next glass of hot or cold tea or coffee, do not reach for the Splenda, grab some of your local beekeepers (and bee’s) hard work, sit back and enjoy!
Cranshaw, Whitney. "Nuisance Wasps and Bees." Nuisance Wasps and Bees. Colorado State University, 08 Jan. 2014. Web. 31 Mar. 2014.
Plague is an infectious disease that can lead to fatality. There was once a plague called pesticides. This plague would kill off dwarves rapidly and painfully thus causing extinction. However, the dwarves were responsible for a third of the food we consume daily. This plague surfaced in the areas where dwarves live and infected many of them. Weeks later, the dwarves begin to die, leading them towards extinction. Because of the extinction, a third of our food is diminished. Nonetheless, individuals would only care about the remaining two thirds of the food leaving people . As a result, many scientists are realizing that pesticides are the reason for the extinction of the dwarves and steadily declining food supplies.
The organization of each honey bees job is fascinating, for each job is assigned to a bee in accordance to its age.
Throughout The Secret Life of Bees , there is no shortage of symbolism, coming directly from its namesake, bees. Each connection draws upon the deep and rich meaning behind this wonderful composed text. The bees, however, never are a scapegoat. Similar to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird character Atticus, they never allow for shortcuts or disillusion with reality. They force you to see the world as it is, and to accept it, and send love to it, for it is all you can, when you are as insignificant as a
Think for a moment of a world without bees; a world without our buzzing friend. They might look like they barely do much to help our ecosystem. However, bees are a vital part of our agriculture and this makes it vital that we keep them around. The bee population decline in recent years is troubling for both us and our little friends. As their friends, we must do all we can in order to ensure their survival which in turn will ensure our own.
The best action the public can take to improve honey bee survival is not to use pesticides indiscriminately. In particular, the public should avoid applying pesticides during mid-day hours, when honey bees are most likely to be out foraging for nectar and pollen on flowering plants. In addition, the public can plant pollinator-friendly plants—plants that are good sources of nectar and pollen such as red clover, foxglove, bee balm, joe-pye weed, and other native plants.
All around the world honeybees are vanishing at an alarming rate, according to the documentary Vanishing of the Honeybees. This film features two commercial bee keepers and their fight to preserve their bee numbers. David Hackenburg was the first commercial bee keeper to go public the bee population was decreasing. Approximately two billions bees have vanished and nobody knows the reason why. Honeybees are used all across America to help pollinate monoculture crops like broccoli, watermelon, cherries, and other produce. Without the honeybees the price for fresh and local produce would be too much money. According, to this film commercial bee keeper’s help fifteen billion dollars of food get pollinated by commercial
How about fruits, vegetables, coffee, even shampoo or lotion? Our livestock depend on bee-pollinated plants like grain. Poorly pollinated plants produce fewer fruits and seeds leading to higher prices (New Agriculturist, n.d.). Some crops are entirely dependent on pollinators such as almonds and others are 90 percent dependent like blueberries and cherries (ABF, 2015). Bees give us honey and we use this honey in food, shampoo, and moisturizers (Mercola, 2015). Bees pollinate 70 out of our 100 major crops; that includes apples, cucumbers, pumpkins, and many more. Our bees are dying at the highest rates ever recorded: 42 percent of the United States bee colonies collapsed in 2015 (NRDC, 2015). 50 to 80 percent of the worlds food supply is directly affected by honeybee pollination (Pennsylvania Apiculture Inc., 2011). Reduced crop pollination will make food more expensive and can even make some crops harder to grow successfully (Worland,
The teacher will introduce the book, The Honeybee Man by Lela Nargi and she will ask the class about what they think the book will be about based on the illustrations.
Buy regional and organic, avoid pesticides in your garden, plant bee friendly. Works Cited “The Economic Importance of Bee$.” BeeSpotter, University of Illinois. N.p., n.d. Web. The Web.
While arguments are out there that disagree, recent trend in honey bee die offs has shown
The lives of humans and honeybees have been intertwined for millennia. For at least 8,000 years, humans have sought honey for applications in disciplines ranging from medicine to the culinary arts. But while humans love honey, honeybees provide a much more valuable service: pollination. As the world’s most prolific pollinator, honeybees are essential to the reproduction of many plant species, which in turn benefits other animals and plants. In fact, humans heavily rely on honeybees to pollinate our own food source, a service that is worth billions of dollars a year. Unfortunately, the honeybee population is in a severe and prolonged decline, often in the form of colony collapse disorder, in which entire colonies are seemingly abandoned by adult bees overnight. Honeybees are an indispensable component of modern agriculture, and a failure to discern and address the many causes of honeybee population decline – both manmade and natural – could have disastrous consequences for the environment and human society.
Just how important are honey bees to the ecosystem? Typically, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Honeybees pollinate eighty percent of our crops, or about a third of our diet. Honeybees cross-pollinate different plant species, by carrying pollen, which it uses to spread throughout an area of flowers. On a larger scale, one bee colony is able to pollinate 300 million flowers each day (Greenpeace). Grains, like rice and wheat, are primarily populated by wind, however, the healthiest foods, such as fruit, vegetables and nuts are pollinated by bees. In order for humankind to grow the honeybees must be able to live.
The first step in bee conservation would be to accurately determine the cause of death of bees in the United Kingdom. This would use about 30million pounds to set up research labs across the country. Stricter guidelines for bee keepers would be developed so that dead bees can be analysed by resear...
Bees are small flying insects, buzzing around with its painful stings which always make people afraid and annoyed. What generally relate with bees are their roles in pollination and producing honey and beeswax. So it seems that bees might be nothing to human as it’s easy to find substitutes for honey as flavoring. However, this perception is mistaken. Without bees, aftermath.