What Would The World Be Like Without Bees?

https://karorosummerf.blogspot.com/2019/07/information-report-on-bees.html

-- WALT

 We are learning to write an information report.

Success Criteria:

 We will plan and then write an information report on a topic of our choice related to bees.

Our report will:

• Be interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening statement
• and a series of facts related to that statement.
• Include some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources. This information will be written
• in our own words and we will write down our sources at the end of our report.

What Would The World Be Like Without Bees?

Bees are declining at a frightening rate and this is why?

 Did you know bees are declining at a frightening rate in the past decade?
This is happening because of colony collapse disorder,  global warming, the
varroa mite and pesticides. It has been found that tiny amounts of neonics
have caused honeybees to struggle to find where their food sources are or
how to find their way home again. Colony collapse disorder is when they
slowly die out or abandon their hives. During the winter the varroa mite
sucks the honeys bees blood and attacks the honey bees developing larvae. 

A world without bees just couldn't sustain because the bees feed ninety percent
of humanity and without them we would have half the amount of fruit and vegetables.
  Some foods they pollinate are tomatoes, strawberries, lemons and more. Without bees
we would lose heaps of plants because we need bees to pollinate them so that they
can grow into fruit or vegetables. Bees pollinate flowers to get pollen to make into
nectar, but some of the pollen sticks to their fur like velcro and when it lands on
another flower the pollen brushes off them and the pollen goes on the other flower
and then that flower makes seeds.  So without bees we would not be able to have
pizza because they pollinate the tomatoes that go on the base. 

If bees went extinct we would lose most of the plants they pollinate.
This would mean that the foods would be less available to other people
because the farmers will want to keep lots of the food to themselves and
maybe their friends. If bees went extinct it would mean more work for farmers
and others because they would have to pollinate the plants by hand.  This would
be more expensive and a lot more work for heaps of other people. The prices of the
food would go up. To stop bees from going extinct we need to make sure that we look
after them and try to stop using pesticides and make sure that we look after our planet. 

Summer Fahey

Room 5

Karoro School

Colony Collapse Disorder

WALT

We are learning to write an information report.

 Success Criteria:

 We will plan and then write an information report on a topic
of our choice related to bees.

Our report will:

• Be interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening
• statement and a series of facts related to that statement.Include
• some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or
• map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources.  This
• information will be written in our own words and we will
• write down our sources at the end of our report.

What Is Colony Collapse Disorder?

What is colony collapse disorder?
Colony collapse disorder (CCD)
is when a colony of worker bees
leave the hive leaving behind
plenty of food and few nurse bees
to look after the queen bee and the
immature bees. Often if a bee gets
colony collapse disorder they will
fly away and never return so after
about a day they eventually die. 

In six years leading to 2013 over 10 million colonies were lost
often to CCD. The lifespan of a healthy worker bee that is going
well is 4-6 weeks. But if a worker bee gets colony collapse disorder
then it could be a lot shorter lifespan. In the foraging season alone,
about 800-1200 bees die per day.

Some possible causes of CCD are Varroa mites because they are
the world's most destructive honey bee killer and the viruses they
carry have the chemical treatment that is considered a cause of
CCD. Nutrition is also one because malnutrition stresses bees out
and that weakens their immune systems and it would make it easier
for them to get CCD. Undiscovered disease is considered a possible
cause. 

Colony Collapse Disorder affects
humans because it threatens our
food supply. Bees pollinate 70% of
our food and pollinate 90% of our
wild plants. Crops like cherries and
blueberries are 90% dependent on
honey bee pollination. As the
number of bees are dying, the
number of food crops is decreasing.
That means there would be less
fruits, vegetables and less honey for us.

My source's were Wikipedia, IFAS Extension and Quora.

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What Are Bee Hives For?

Bees make their hives to store food and shelter the bees. Bees make their

hives to protect them. The bees store anything from eggs, to pollen, to honey.

When the bee hive is getting built by the bees, the bees produce beeswax

to create a strong and hard interior of the beehive. They use the beeswax

to make these perfect little hexagon shapes in the hive. They store the food

and eggs in them. These are called honeycombs.

Jobs Inside The Hive

The three main types of bees are the worker bee, drone bee and the queen bee. When the queen lays an egg she can either lay a fertilized egg or an unfertilized egg. A fertilized egg hatches into a worker bee or queen bee, while an unfertilized egg will hatch into a drone bee. A worker bee is only female and they have all the jobs to do from collecting nectar, producing honey, keeping the hive clean, guarding the hive and making wax. For every 100 worker bees there are, there is a drone bee. Unlike the female worker bees, drones do not have stingers and gather neither nectar nor pollen. The drone bees primary job is to mate with a queen bee. After mating season the drone bee gets kicked out of the hive. The drone either dies of starvation or freezes. The queen bee is the most important bee of them all and only has one job, she produces new bees. Without the queen bee or a drone the whole hive would die out.

Space Animationi

Today my class and I made animations and mine was about a rocket. I learnt how to loop the video without using screencastify. We changed all the falses to trues and changed the 3000 to a different number. I changed the 3000 to 100.

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Why Are Bees Declining?

 Success Criteria:

 We will plan and then write an information report on a topic of our choice related to bees.

Our report will:

• Be interesting!
• Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.
• Show a clear link to our planning.
• Start with an opening statement about our topic.
• Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening statement and a series of facts related to that statement.
• Include some complex or compound sentence structures.
• Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.
• Finish with a general statement about the topic.
• Use information from at least 3 different sources.  This information will be written in our own words and we will write down our sources at the end of our report.

Why Are  Bees Declining?

Bees are dying and they need to pollinate our flowers. If the bees died we would not have much food because around 100 crop species feed 90% of the world. Around 70% of our food grows from a flower and needs to be pollinated so they can reproduce seeds so they can grow again.   About 200-250 bees die a day. In 2016 US beekeepers lost 33% of their bees. If bees die and stop pollinating not only will the plants die but the animals that eat the pollinated plants will also die which will mess up the food chain.

One of the reasons that bees are dying is because they are getting poisoned by pesticides. Pesticides are usually sprayed over plants. The bees crawl over the plants and the chemicals attack insects by harming their nerve systems. Scientists also say that the pesticides interfere with the bees brain stopping them from learning so they don't remember what food they need to eat so they slowly die. Their population has gone down by 25 percent  in the past years.

The second reason why bees are dying is because of Varroa mites and they are the worst problem. The mites sneak into the beehive and they wait for the wax to cover the spots were the bees lay their eggs. When they get in they wait for the bees to lay their eggs. When the bee lays the eggs the mites feed on the eggs so they can reproduce and repeat what they do. The mite attached to the body of the bee and weakens the bee by sucking its body which kills them. 

Sources:  The Telegraph, Entomology and Wikipedia.

Jack's Animation

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Jack Topliss

Room 7

Karoro School

WALT To get it the speed I wanted I went to HTML. I had to change the falsies to true and change the 3000 to 200.

Why Are Bees Declining

Why Are Bees Declining?

WALT

We are learning to write an information report.

 Success Criteria:

 We will plan and then write an information report on a topic of our choice related to bees.

Our report will:

Be interesting!

Give information about a topic of our choice related to bees.

Show a clear link to our planning.

Start with an opening statement about our topic.

Have at least 3 paragraphs.  Each paragraph will have an opening statement and a series of facts related to that statement.

Include some complex or compound sentence structures.

Include at least one diagram, photograph, illustration or map to go with the text.

Finish with a general statement about the topic.

Use information from at least 3 different sources.  This information will be written in our own words and we will write down our sources at the end of our report.

Bees have been declining for the last 20 years. The population is still decreasing as I write. It is not good that the bee population is declining. The three main reasons bees are declining is intensive farming, climate change and varroa mites.

Intensive Farming 

Intensive land use is destroying the bees habitat and the bees are dying because they

lose their habitat and shelter. Intensive farming is taking up too much of the space

so the bees can not live anywhere.

Intensive farming is not good for the environment because it kills the animals and destroys the forest. For intensive farming they also use pesticides which affects the bees because they spray it on the plants and flowers where the bees crawl all over the plants and kills them.

How Climate Change Is Bad For Bees

Climate change is causing habitat loss as bees fail to migrate to cooler areas and establish new hives. As average monthly temperatures rise, flowers bloom earlier in the spring, creating a potential mismatch in seasonal timing between when flowers produce pollen and when bees are ready to feed on that pollen. Even a small mismatch of three to six days could negatively affect bees' health, making them less likely to reproduce and less resistant to predators and parasites. 

Varroa Mites

Varroa mites are one of the worst problems why bees are declining. Varroa mites sneak into the hive.  By sneaking into the hive they attach to the adult bees and feed on them until they get to the hive. Once bees are in the hive they slip undetected  into a vulnerable uncapped *brood* cells and this is where the Varroa mites feed on the undeveloped bees. Brood cells means a cell used for the rearing of a larva. These were the three main reasons why bees are declining.

http://sos-bees.org/causes/

https://friendsoftheearth.uk/bees/what-are-causes-bee-decline

https://www.buzzaboutbees.net/bee-decline.html

Wairini's Space Animation

Today my class and I made animations and mine was about a rocket. I learnt how to loop the video without using screencastify. We changed all the falses to trues and changed the 3000 to a different number. I changed the 3000 to 100.

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Bee Experts by Billie Williams

Bee Experts

Learning Intentions

We are learning to understand the importance of bees in nature
through learning about pollination and interdependence.

We are learning to take key information from an information report
and write it in our own words. 

Writing task: Bee experts

Write a paragraph about how bees pollinate flowers. 

The paragraph should:

• Have a heading.
• Have a minimum of four sentences.
• Explain how bees pollinate flowers.
• Tell us why this is important.
• Be aimed for Miss Ireland's class so they can understand this.
• Be written in your own words.
• Use your photo of your flower cut in half.
• Use an additional photo or diagram if you wish.

How Do Bees Pollinate?

Have you ever wondered how flowers get pollinated or how bees pollinate them?
Bees are very important to us humans and other animals on the food chain. These
are critical pollinators.  They pollinate things you wouldn't even think of, such as
tomatoes, lemons nuts, apples, carrots and so on. This is crucial because we
would only have two thirds of the food in the supermarkets if it weren't for bees.
We would also have less vitamins than we have now. 

 So how do Bees pollinate? 

The innocent bee goes into the flower looking for nectar but doesn't know it's
getting set up to reproduce the flower seeds. As the bee goes into the flower
to get the nectar it gets pollen brushed on it from the anther (male part) part
of the flower. When the bee has done it's stuff( eating), it goes  to the next flower
where the pollen brushes off it and onto the stigma (female part). This is fertilizing
the seeds so the flower can reproduce. The pollen from that flower can only go to
the same species of flower. 

http://karorobilliew.blogspot.com/2019/06/bee-experts.html

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