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Why should we help the Honey Bee Survive?

Beeman's wife — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:13:36 GMT

Why should we help the Honey Bee?

In simple terms, the answer seems very obvious; the bees are one of the most important pollinators in the world.

We rely on honey bees for one-third of our food supply, so when honey bees are in danger, we�re all in danger. The facts in this section will help you educate others on what�s happening with our honey bees.

The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year. Bees fly approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour and visit about 50�100 flowers in each pollination trip. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,000 miles. When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good pollen source, it gives out samples of the flower�s nectar to its hive mates and performs a dance that details the distance, direction, quality and quantity of the food supply. The richer the food source, the longer and more vigorous dance.

Why should we care about honey bees? Bee pollination is responsible for $15billion in added crop value, particularly for specialty crops such as almonds and other nuts, berries, fruits, and vegetables. About one mouthful in three in our diet directly or indirectly benefits from honey bee pollination.

If honey bee colonies continue to collapse without relief, the impact on our current food sources and agricultural practices will be devastating to our own survival. Some bee facts we should know. Learn how you can help at http://www.beeman-beeremoval.com

1. The honey bee has been around for millions of years.
2. Honey bees, scientifically also known as Apis mellifera, are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators.
3. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.
4. Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it�s theonly food that contains �pinocembrin�, an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.
5. Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head), 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, 2pairs of wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.

6. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their exceptional olfactory abilities include kinrecognition signals, social communication within the hive, and odor recognition for finding food. Their sense of smell was so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from yards away.
7. The honey bees wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second,thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.
8. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.
9. Foragers must collect nectar from about 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey.
10. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee�s flight around the world.
11. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.
12. The bee�s brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.
13. A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work.
14. The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs.. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at itsmaximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day.
15. Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do not work at all. All they do is mating.
16. Each honey bee colony has a unique odor for members� identification.
17. Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but they don�t leave the hive to help defend it.
18. It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.
19. Honey bees communicate with one another by �dancing�.
20. During winter, honey bees feed on the honey they collected during the warmer months. They form a tight cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm. The more I learn about honey bee facts; honey�s great creator -the honey bee itself, its highly organized society, how it acts with such intricate cooperation, and the various bee products, the more I admire and respect this amazing creature. It is no wonder why sometimes the colony is called a superorganism.

Can You Install Vinyl Stick Tile (With Grout) Over Linoleum Floor?

John — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:35:09 GMT

I have a floor with linoleum, and I really don't want to have to rip it up. Can you install the stick tiles (with grout) over top of it? Or will this not work?

On my bag of vegetable-garden Fertilizer, it says it has... (4)-Nitrogen,...

SteverZ — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:32:09 GMT

...(6)-Potash and (3)-Frophrase.? But on my other bag of vegetable garden Fertilizer, the bag says......
(14)-Nitrogen, (14)-Potash and (14)-Frophrase.

*So which bag of fertilizers really has the --> more Nitrogen in it??
The fertilizer that has the Numbers, 4,6,3 ?
Or the 14, 14, 14 fertilizer bag ?
I'm very confused with these Numbers on these two fertilizer bags,
Thanks.

Existing Stain on Oak

Rich — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:14:20 GMT

Have some cabinets that I'm replacing the Cab. Doors and Drawer Fronts on.
Cabinets and Faceframes are Oak stained and urathaned, That 70's Show look.
I'd like to stain the faceframes and side panels with a Java Gel Stain or
Expresso Gel, darker look. Then Gel the new doors and drawer fronts to
match.

I'm assuming I need to strip the urathane, but how do you deal with the
existing stain? Or will mulitple coats of gel cover the tight grain of oak?

Thanks in Advance

--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"

Man. 2010.1 Spring
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2.6.33.5-desktop-2mnb

mower engine blowout again

gregz — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:15:26 GMT

Naah, it's got to be gorilla tape.

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Duct tape and wd-40 .

Greg

Audio output transformer

klem kedidelhopper — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:10:49 GMT

"klem kedidelhopper"

** The Technics amp will probably blow up.

You cannot use 70V line *step up* trannies with domestic hi-fi amps.

Line voltage power amplifiers are specially designed to drive the included
step up transformer - which presents a lethal load to most SS amplifiers.

BTW

"Technics mono 100W amp" leads to no particular model on Google.

So what the fuck have you really got ??

..... Phil

Longevity of juglone

Ross@home — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:01:11 GMT

We are in the process of demolishing a large shed which stood right
beside a very large black walnut tree. There are probably many
hundreds of pounds of compost on the roof of the shed, mainly from the
black walnut husks, leaves, etc.
Any speculation on whether or not this is safe to spread on the
vegetable garden?
How long before juglone is denatured?

Ross.
Southern Ontario, Canada.

Florida Renters Rights and Pest Control - Ticks, Rats & Termites!?

Just me — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:49:13 GMT

I'm currently a little behind on rent for an apartment in Southern Florida, but making payments on it. I'll be caught up in a month with them if I continue with my payment plan. I'm curious if I should keep working so hard though to catch up with them, or worry about getting out of the apartment all together. I don't want to have any bad rental records though... such as abandoning an apartment, or for them to sue me and make me pay the rent anyways if I was to just move out. The reason I'm even contemplating such a thing though is because I have a huge tick problem; which is becoming quite an issue with my two dogs. I've purchased comfortis (an oral pill for pests on dogs), bombed the house, sprayed the house with anti-tick yard chemicals, sprayed the carpet and furniture with carpet/furniture no ticks for 7 months spray from the pet store, bathed the dogs every week or two in tick shampoo, and picked the dam things off of the dogs every couple of days. I'm going insane! It never ends! It's just constantly trying to control the issue. Then there's termites invading all my neighbors and my apartments in the complex this past month. On top of all of this, the building next door to mine (also part of my complex) is having rat issues! I don't have the money for a lawyer, so I'm worried about the apartments attacking me with their own lawyer and coming after me for the money if I just abandon the place, but I'm seriously considering doing such. I don't have much money as it is, and this pest stuff is such a chore to constantly be dealing with! What are my renters rights?

Piscine

armindo — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:36:06 GMT

bonsoir a tous!
voil�* mon problème,
ce we baignade pas de soucis,
ce soir il manque presque 10cm d'eau! skimmer vide, pompe qui pompe..
dans le vide! jamais vu ca!!

je remplis la piscine, verifie que le liner n'est pas abimé et remet
en route la pompe et l�*.. au bout de 2 heures je me rends compte que
la pompe se désamorce par intermittence .. comme s'il n'y avait pas
assez d'eau. ce qui n'est pas le cas le skimmer est plein en permanence.
une idée?
demain que devrais-je vérifier?
par sécurité j'ai coupé la pompe.
merci

What is used to decay stumps

tangerine3@toyotamail.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:41:41 GMT

tangerine3@toyotamail.com wrote in news:cj08r713fsrc3o2mvk978mcudtsminfecl@
4ax.com:

My ex's cooking. Our smoke alarm also served as a dinner bell.

Way OT - But since we're talking about philosophy...

Mike Marlow — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:32:22 GMT

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, When 24 hours in a
day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of
him.

When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty
mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it withgolf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.
He shook the jar lightly.

The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full.

They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.

Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

He asked once more if the jar was full..

The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.'

The professor then produced two beers from under the table and poured the
entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the
sand.

The students laughed..

'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize
that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your
health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was
lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are theother things that matter like your job, your house and
your car..

The sand is everything else---the small stuff.

'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room
for the pebbles or the golf balls.

The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have
room for the things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.

Spend time with your children.

Spend time with your parents.

Visit with grandparents.

Take your spouse out to dinner.

Play another 18 holes of golf.

There will always be time to clean the house, fix the disposal or deal with
things from your job.

Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter.

Set your priorities.

The rest is just sand.

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the beer represented.

The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.'

The beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's
always room for a couple of beers with a friend.

--

-Mike-
mmarlowREMOVE@windstream.net

Alpines growing in small tub

Frank — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:10:04 GMT

I've always thought that alpines were fairly drought resistant. I have 4
of these growing in a container, in a 50/60 mixture of sand and
uni-compost. But despite being exposed to rain, I've noticed after a few
dry days that a couple of them begin to wilt notably a Helianthemum and
a Mazus Rwptans. The other 2 alpines are unaffected. I've watered since
and the 2 wilted plants soon perked up. But I'm surprised they wilted so
easily.

I'm looking to get a vegetable garden started. i need to rip out the

clocktower120 — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:52:15 GMT

existing garden and start over. tips? We just moved in and there is a preexisting garden in the back yard that hasn't been touched in years. I'm going to rip the hole thing out and start fresh. I know nothing about gardening but its been something I've wanted to do for a while. After I get everything out how should I go about replacing the area? (with top soil? fertilizer?

Any tips, advice or good websites would be greatly appreciated

Go hug a nettle tonight!

Sacha — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:44:02 GMT

On 2012-05-16 17:36:28 +0100, Jake said:

I thought this was an invitation for all those ladies who go fluttery
when watching Bergerac or Midsomer Murders! ;-))
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
www.hillhousenurserytearoom.com
South Devon

custom casket

basilisk — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:00:18 GMT

On May 16, 12:00*pm, basilisk wrote:

Love to see pictures of the casket.

RonB