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Hey there! Welcome to the Hive Collapse Padlet! Here we've posted similar information to what's on the website and some of the slides.

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Thank you for taking time out of your day to visit our website. We are happy to know that people are interested in this topic and are doing what they can to help. Have a wonderful rest of your life, bee-saver!

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Below is the link to our main website, called the Honey Bee Hive Collapse Website. It has information about bees, what we did to spread awareness, and interview with three people: beekeeper Elizabeth Finn, entomologist (insect scientist) Brittany Buckles, and the leader of the Forestry and Garden club, Mr. Ogean.

https://sites.google.com/d123.org/hbhivecollapse/the-honeybee-hive-collapse

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Here's the link to our video interview with Elizabeth Finn, a beekeeper! There are five questions in the video, and she gives us so answers and information you might not have known!

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What do you do if you see a swarm of bees?

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What do you do if you see a swarm of bees?

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AHH! There's a massive swarm of bees in your town, and they won't go away! What do you do? Well, to start, DO NOT SPRAY THEM with any chemicals or try to shoo them away. It will just make them angry and they will come after you. Instead, you should call a local beekeeper to come and pick them up and lead them back to a hive. Make sure they are honey bees though, because beekeepers don't want a swarm of wasps!

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From honeybeecentre.com: "Bees are equipped with two wings, two antennae, and three segmented body parts (the head, the thorax, and the abdomen). Honeybees are social insects that live in colonies. The hive population consists of a single queen, a few hundred drones, and thousands of worker bees."

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Honey bees are pollinators, which essentially means that they collect pollen and nectar for their colony. They go out and collect these things in all the daylight hours, and go back home as soon as it gets dark outside.

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Honey Bees are a very important part of our lives, this is because they are responsible for the $30 billion that farmers every year.

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Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, was first reported in 2006. Beekeepers noticed that adult bees suddenly started disappearing from their hives, all at the same time.

There are multiple problems that could be the cause of CCD, but through many studies, scientists found no common problem that could be the main cause of the disease.
The beehive decline has been happening for years now, and according to the NPIC, “about 30% of colonies have been lost each winter, but that number dropped to 23% in 2013-14. In 2013, surveyors attributed about 30% of colony losses to CCD, compared to 60% of colony losses in 2008.” This essentially means that before the year 2008, beehive populations dropped 30%  every winter, which is quite a lot. Later on the population was dropped 6% less every winter, but nevertheless, the population is still dropping.

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The honey bees’ hive collapse is mainly caused by a disease called Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. CCD is a problem that causes the hive to have no adult bees, only a queen, honey, and immature bees.
Most research has shown that CCD has a few different causes, so the exact reason still hasn’t been solved. Some colonies are declining for different reasons than others.
CCD has been a main factor to the bee decline, but beekeepers have also found other reasons why the bee population is declining. Some of these other problems include:
- Pests, for example, the varroa mite, also known as the varroa destructor (below).
- Exposure to pesticides, just under a lethal level
-Pathogens (a bacteria that can cause disease)

Here is an up-close photograph of the Varroa Destructor/Varroa Mite:

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1.  Do not treat your lawn with chemicals! Instead, you can use coffee grounds! Save your used coffee grounds and mix them with compost or soil. It reduces the number of insects in your garden and fertilizes your plants. Try only to use pesticides as a last resort.

2.  You can plant flowers that attract bees, such as sunflowers, black-eyed susans, asters, and goldenrods.

3. You can research beekeeping and how to protect the honeybees online for more ideas on how you can help.