Beekeeping by Kira G https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8 Kira Garvey en-us 2017-11-07 15:32:53 UTC 2026-04-01 14:48:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/205329993 2017-11-09 15:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/205329993 Worker bees sip nectar from flowers and temporarily carry it in their honey stomach, where enzymes in their stomach mix with the nectar and breaks it down into fructose and glucose. They take it back to the hive where it is stored in honeycombs. The water in the nectar evaporates until 81% of the water is gone, leaving a substance that we call honey. Beekeepers place a sheet of wax called comb foundation on the sides of a beehive that is the same shape as the bottom of honey combs. Bees will use these as guides to build honeycombs. Honey is stored in these honeycombs. They are moved to the top of the hive until they are totally filled with honey, and then removed and replaced with new/recycled ones. 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/206749169 2017-11-14 15:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/206749169 Bees are important to flowers and other plants because they carry pollen from the male part of a flower (the anthers) to another flower’s female part (the stigmas). 80% to 85% of all crop pollination in the United States is done by bees. A worker bee goes to about 10,000 flowers in one day. Certain flowers are made to be pollinated by certain animals or things like wind or rain. Flowers that were designed to be pollinated by bees are usually yellow, blue, magenta, or white. Apples, avocados, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, sunflowers, cucumbers, kiwi fruit, melons and vegetables are very dependent on honey bees to pollinate them. 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/206866161   ]]> 2017-11-14 17:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/206866161 A beekeeper's job is to raise the bees and make sure they have a good environment to make honey. The beekeeper wears a bee veil made of wire cloth and gloves to protect them from getting stung. Eventually, the keeper become immune and not swell up when stung. When working in the hive, smoke is blown over the entrance of the comb to put the bees into a peaceful and quiet state, so that they won’t attack. To get the honey, the keeper must take out the filled honey combs, shave off the top of the honeycombs with a specially designed knife, and then extract the liquid honey by spinning at high speeds using centrifugal force. They then have to either place a new comb foundation or reuse old honeycombs. 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207218390 2017-11-15 14:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207218390 Honeycomb Sculptures 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207618713 A beekeeper and a sculpture use their knowledge of bees to get them to make honeycombs in the shape that they want. ]]> 2017-11-16 12:26:49 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207618713 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207624482 2017-11-16 12:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207624482 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207624530 To be considered a commercial beekeeper, you have to be running 300+ hives. In 2013, North Dakota was the number one honey producing state. About 1/2 of the honey is sold through retail channels, the other 1/2 in bulk or to the food industry. Bees and other insets are very important to keeping s healthy. ⅓ of the human diet comes from plants that were insect-pollinated. One plant the is depending a lot on bees is the almonds. 1,000,000 honey bee colonies are needed to pollinate California’s almond crop, which is 80% of the world's almonds. Without bees, and our bee industry, we would have no honey, flowers, fruit, veggies, beeswax, propolis, and royal jelly.]]> 2017-11-16 12:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207624530 Reference to "Stung" 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207625375 In the book "Stung" Fiona and Bowen have the job of pollinating the flowers since there are no more bees to do it. On page 89, it states, "I stick the fine bristles of my paintbrush into the flower. Tiny, pale grains of dust cling to it-pollen. I move to the next flower and do the same, brushing the dust from the first flower into the second, while taking dust from the second to place in the third." ]]> 2017-11-16 12:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207625375 1102973 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207628567 2017-11-16 12:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/207628567 Luke McDonough 1102273 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208130777  I like the video in the fact that they were creating a hive in the way that a bee would only it is man made. They can also see the hive being made and how they bees created the honey comb based on the shell and starting point.]]> 2017-11-17 14:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208130777 Luke McDonough 1102273 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208132023 I think that you could have added a little more about the smoke when they first enter the hive, like how the honey bees go in a peaceful state because of it. I also like how you talked about the spinning wheel and how they extracted the honey from the honeycomb. I feel like you could have added a little more to the adding a new comb to the hive.]]> 2017-11-17 14:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208132023 Abbey Ott 1610752 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208132283 This was a really good choice for a book reference, it went along well with your research.]]> 2017-11-17 14:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208132283 Abbey Ott 1610752 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208133139 This was really informative and it explained the topic well, in an understandable way.]]> 2017-11-17 14:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208133139 Abbey Ott 1610752 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208134184 Wow! I didn't know that 1/3 of the human diet is made from insect-pollinated plants! This column was really informative and had interesting facts.]]> 2017-11-17 15:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208134184 Luke McDonough 1102273 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208135073 You could have checked your spelling a little bit more, but I like how you added what the beekeepers give the honey bee for food and how there are 1,000,000 bee colonies to pollinate the almond crops. it would be better if you gave an example of the food that the honey bees pollinate such as like fruits of vegetables.]]> 2017-11-17 15:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208135073 Abbey Ott 1610752 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208135185 The process of getting honey sounds so complicated. I like how you explained the clothes beekeepers have to wear when they are dealing with bees.]]> 2017-11-17 15:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208135185 Luke McDonough 1102273 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208136599 Good job but I think you could have added what they would do in the wild when there is no comb foundation.]]> 2017-11-17 15:04:44 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208136599 Luke McDonough 1102273 https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208145724 You could have added more on what he colors indicate to the bee and if it makes it sweeter or if there is more nectar in a certain flower.]]> 2017-11-17 15:21:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1102973/skerawa174h8/wish/208145724