The Buzzzzzzzzzzzzz on Bees... The Honey Bee Crisis Involving Colony Collapse Disorder
Honeybee with pollen all over it
When Honeybees travel from each flower, pollen that they attracted from another plant falls off their hair and onto the current plant. This is pollination. The newly acquired pollen is used to germinate the current plant’ s flower so the plant can grow and flourish.
Apiculture is the science of beekeeping. Bees evolved over thirty million year ago. Humans have collected honey from wild beehives for more than 8,000 years, as shown in Mesolithic rock paintings dating from 6000 B. C. E. By 2500 B. C. E., Egyptians were keeping bees in artificial hives. Hives exploit the honeybees ' natural tendency to build nests in cavities, and allow apiculturists to easily move( via boat, wagon, truck) and manipulate bee colonies. This mobility has allowed beekeepers to