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