https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti Nathan Sliwa en-us 2017-11-07 15:33:03 UTC 2025-07-13 11:00:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206257528 When beekeeping first came to life the beekeepers would destroy the whole colony but in 1851 Lorenzo Langstroth discovered that in between wax combs there is a 6mm space where the bees live.  With that knowledge beekeepers don’t have to destroy the whole hive anymore but save it and take out the sections in separated by the living space.  Referring back to the book beekeeping was possibly the destruction of the bees which started the whole new world,  to help that they pollinated the plants with a paint like material since the had become extinct.

]]> 2017-11-13 14:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206257528 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206257825 There is a wide range of industry for honey.  In fact if you eat local honey you can get rid of your allergies.  In the 1990s the government estimated that 3 million colonies of all different types of bees were being maintained in the US.  There is about 125,000 people who have and maintain one or more bee hives but 75% of the harvest is maintained by only 600 beekeepers.  From one colony you can get about 65 pounds of honey and for every ton of honey 20-40 pounds of beeswax.  In the mid-1990s the world totaled about 1.2 million metric tons of honey.  In the book honey is very precious and worth a lot because of the lack of it.  Honey is especially high economic wise with not much of it left.

]]> 2017-11-13 14:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206257825 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206258388 There are many ways of making and getting honey, like from the honey and or from some plants.  The most common way is the honeybee and its cousins.  Bee’s make honey in their honey sacs with stuff in flowers called nectar.  They use it to feed their larvae and as a substance for winter.  The honey is also made up of fructose, water, and glucose.  Surprisingly, all honey is different.  They are all made with different proportions of the ingredients, also the flavor and color can depend on the flower, age, and even the type of bee.  The lighter the honey color the more the quality and price.  Reference to the book is that honey was worth a lot because of the lack of bees which produced the honey, overall honey can not be made if there is nothing ]]> 2017-11-13 14:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206258388 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206259186 Pollination is the transfer of pollen for the stamen to the stigma.  There are two types of pollination, self-pollination and cross-pollination.  In the process of self-pollination pollen is transferred from the stamen to the stigma of the same flower, while cross pollination is the transfer of pollen from one flower to another of the same plant or one flower to a flower of a different plant of the same species.  Cross-pollinating is said to be better because it produces more varied offspring, better seed, and more seeds.  Wind is good for cross-pollinating because it scatters everywhere but animals such as bees and bats are better for spreading pollen to the same species because of their instincts.  This relates to the book because pollination is changed because there are no more bees left instead the paint things onto plants to make them grow.

]]> 2017-11-13 14:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206259186 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206270042 In the book “Stung” by Bethany Wiggins beekeeping plays a huge role in all of the character’s lives.  Beekeeping was very important in there lives but it had changed majorly because of the lack of bees who generate and make the honey.  Honey became very expensive and worth a lot to the people in the book.  Without honey and bees the world was coming to an end.  To even make food they had to paint plants with a special type of paint just to make them grow, which shows how important pollination is to our society.

]]> 2017-11-13 15:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206270042 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206279494 2017-11-13 15:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206279494 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206753830 2017-11-14 15:06:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206753830 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206757346 2017-11-14 15:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206757346 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206758798 2017-11-14 15:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206758798 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206761459 2017-11-14 15:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206761459 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206839879 2017-11-14 17:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206839879 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206841711 2017-11-14 17:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/206841711 1012894 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/207449243 This video is about the different types of pollination (such as self-pollination), the process and how they work.]]> 2017-11-15 21:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/207449243 1405915 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208131554 You gave good information on what is was originally like but I feel you could have elaborated a bit on what it is like currently.]]> 2017-11-17 14:55:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208131554 1405915 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208132940 You described the industry pretty good but, I think the reference you gave to the book should just be in book reference because it kind of threw me off the main topic of this section.]]> 2017-11-17 14:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208132940 1405915 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208134238 You gave great information about honey; how it's made, what it is, etc. but, I feel you could have chosen a different picture which focuses more on honey. ]]> 2017-11-17 15:00:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208134238 1405915 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208135849 The reference to the book was great. I liked how you gave good examples like how they had to paint plants to make them grow which shows how important pollination is considering that they had to continue pollinating themselves when there were no bees to do it.]]> 2017-11-17 15:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208135849 1101060 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208144217 The reference you used for this project was great. You used many examples, but maybe citing pages
would increase your score for this section.]]> 2017-11-17 15:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208144217 1101060 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208145148 The video you used was great, but maybe choosing a video more related to your project would fit better.

]]> 2017-11-17 15:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208145148 1101060 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208146327 The picture you chose for this section fit perfectly. Saying in the text the 6mm made perfect sense with the picture.]]> 2017-11-17 15:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208146327 1101060 https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208525664 You should've also related this to how beekeepers get honey, and been more specific how thing instead of saying "stuff" and "like". Also, you should've put the book reference in the book reference section and not the honey section. Also, you could've gotten a better picture to relate more on honey. ]]> 2017-11-19 20:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1012894/38k7zdxbunti/wish/208525664