Save the bees
Do you ever look around and ask yourself, "Where have those fuzzy, black, and yellow worker bees gone?" Well, I do! Bees are hard workers and whether they are pollinating plants, making honey, or just flying around making that "Bzzzzzz" sound they are always working. People underestimate the power of bees and the benefits they bring to this earth. The truth is they are very important to people and to the earth, but people don't realize that, and neither did I. After you get finished reading this essay you're going to know some of the answers to those "why" and "how" questions people always ask about bees. Like "why are bees dying?" or "how can we help them?" So, let's begin! One of the questions you might be asking is, "Why are bees so important anyway?" Well, if you like to drink fresh glasses of lemonade on hot summer days or if you like to drink warm cups of hot cocoa on cold winter days, you'll have to thank the bees for pollinating that lemon plant or cocoa bean to allow you to be able to have such a good lemonade or hot chocolate. These hard working bees pollinate 1/3 of our everyday foods like fruits and vegetables. Since bees are pollinators they bring the male part of flowers (pollen) to the female part of flowers to produce a seed so that it can make a healthy fruit or
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Bees are hard workers and whether they are pollinating plants, making honey, or just flying around making that "Bzzzzzz" sound they are always working. People underestimate the power of bees and the benefits they bring to this earth. The truth is they are very important to people and to the earth, but people don't realize that, and neither did I. After you get finished reading this essay you're going to know some of the answers to those "why" and "how" questions people always ask about bees. Like "why are bees dying?" or "how can we help them?" So, let's
This project was chosen to investigate the decline of the honeybee and the impact on Australian agriculture. The honeybee decline is interconnected with environmental sustainability with key environmental challenges threatening the future of the honeybee and the industry of beekeeping. Some of these factors such as land degradation, limited water availability, loss of plant biodiversity, climate change, pests and pesticides loss of public lands such as National Parks, State forests and reserves, all impact on the sustainability and ecosystems which the honeybee depends and likewise, the ecosystems depend on the honeybee. With the disappearance of land to urbanisation and government restrictions on access to public lands some 70% of Australian
What do bees have to do with a young girl enduring a most unfortunate family situation living in the south? Fourteen year old Lily is painfully aware that her cruel father doesn’t care about her. She longs for her loving mother who she vaguely remembers was always there to take care of her. Her ignorance of any other way of life causes her to despair of all hope. In the book The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd the main character, Lily is torn between experience of her painful family situation with an abusive father; ignorance of her mother and a better life available to her.
A touching story of a young teenage girl’s way to healing and of finding. Not only wholeness, but the sacredness of living in this crazy world. It shows the simple feelings and the overcoming within struggles in the flow of time. The Secret Life of Bees is a book about love, pain, courage, and being strong; it’s an outstanding, hard, and crazy adventure of one young teenage girl looking for her mother. Confirming that a family can be found where it’s least expected.
Every day millions of honey bees fly back and forth from their hives. They pollinate a plethora of flowers and produce great amounts of honey. Many people do not realize what bees do for them and their communities. Without bees, people would not have any fresh flowers or produce. The bee population helps provide growth to one-third of the food in the world (Haltiwanger).
SEABEE Insignia In the midst of World War II, a construction battalion was created to support the Navy and Marines. This battalion was created to build in certain location of the war zone. By March 5, 1942 the construction battalion was official named the "SEABEE" by the Navy Department.
August tells Lily that, “‘every bee has its role to play’” (Kidd 148). As August says, bees have their own social structure, with different types of bees doing various tasks, that allow the hive to function properly. If all of the bees are not doing their respective jobs, production can slow to a halt. All the people in the Boatwright household are similar to different types of bees.
One could look at a bee hive as a single living entity (otherwise known as a Superorganism).They ingest and digest food,regulate water control and achieve locomotion as well as many other things that humans do to stay alive. This is were the similarities stop. Bees are raised for certain jobs that are never changed. Queens lay eggs,Drones mate with queens,and workers well….. They work.
To be completely honest, I was hesitant to start this book due to its theme of racism and how as a black woman, it made me slightly uncomfortable to think of this topic by free will. Incidentally, I’m more than glad to have seen past that aspect because, in the end, I was able to read a timeless classic. The Secret Life of Bees brings delightful characters to life, by giving each their own memorable and lovable personality to bring to the table. My favourite character by far was August, the eldest of the trio of sisters. Her calm and gentle demeanor allows the people around her to open up, like how sunflowers bloom as soon as sunlight is in sight.
The bees symbolize the "women in the novel, sheltered in their small house… the women develop an extremely close, nurturing relationship" with one another (Rajendran 99-100). They demonstrate strength and resilience just like the women in the novel. All of the women in the Boatwright house work together to not only take care of the bees but take care of each other. Kidd uses the beehive to symbolize Lily's mother, and how she may not have one mother but she is surrounded by a lot of women who love and care for her like a mother would. August Boatwright explains to Lily that the queen bee is "the mother of every bee in the hive, and they all depend on her to keep it going…she's the mother of thousands" (Kidd 217).
10 May 2017. It's hard to imagine that an animal as small and inconspicuous as a bee, could be our greatest ally in providing food, but approximately one third of everything we eat is a direct result of their hard work. Khouri, Nabila. "Bees are dying -- what can we do about it?"CNN.
Many people may wonder how bees are like humans in ways. In Sue Monk Kidd’s novel “The Secret Life Of Bees”, Lily is a young girl whose mother died when she was a child. She is than being taken care of by T-ray who is a terrible father, as he doesn’t help Lily take care of herself. Lily has a mother like figure though whose name is Rosaleen, the families “maid”.
These of course are all small ways to help the overall problem, but in mass majority the problem can be easily fixed, getting your voice out there and projected at a federal level could save our bees and our beautiful prosperous springs, and summers. If the population is unwilling to contribute this way, even limiting water can help the eventual collapse of the bee species as a whole, “The yield of vegetables and fruits is very low because of inadequate moisture content in the soil. Changes such as heavy rainfall in unseasonable months and severe water shortages at regular intervals indicate climate change.” (Pramila); climate change is a big deal when it comes for the populations of bees, and limiting water usage or conserving water can help the situation as a whole. Becoming a beekeeper as a hobby would not only grow the populations of bees, but an individual can even relocate the hives in the nature and expand the amount of populations that could repopulate and grow the average of colonies as a whole, “Today, there are half as many beekeepers as there were two decades ago, and the remaining beekeepers are mostly large-scale pollination services with thousands of hives and millions of bees.
Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping. Bees operate on many levels in this story: The epigrams at the beginning of each chapter concern bees; the bees in Lily's room reach out to her and show her she must leave; and the bees at the Boatright house are instrumental in teaching about community, life, and death.
Bees can provide a steady ecosystem that benefits both them and the peoples’ gardens and plants surrounding the bees’ pollination area. Maintaining bee gardens can also be a hassle and bees might become aggressive and harm people. Patricia E. Salkin states, “Bees can create a nuisance if they become aggressive or swarm on neighboring property.” The thing is, bees rarely hurt people. If they do, it is because they are being provoked or they feel threatened in some way.
Bees are major factor in our environment. But recent studies show that we are to blame for the decline in the Bee populations. The main reasons are industrial agriculture (pesticides), mites and climate change. And we should care about them because they provide us with honey and beeswax, and provide a major ecosystem service in the form of pollination. Bees pollinate a lot of crops like apple, citrus, strawberry, blueberry, tomato, melon, oilseed rape, carrot, etc.