By Markus Imhoof, Claus-Peter Lieckfeld
“If 70 percentage of all livestock or 30 percentage of all chickens have been to die every year, states of emergency will be declared all over the place. The dying of bees is at the very least that dramatic and with much more far-reaching consequences.” More Than Honey, the booklet according to the award-winning documentary of an identical identify, takes us on an international travel of the area of bees, introducing us alongside easy methods to “killer bees,” Frankenbees, beekeepers, and human pollinators. Markus Imhoof and Claus-Peter Lieckfeld study either the background and present prestige of our dating to and reliance on bees, and disclose the human behaviors which are contributing to the decline of the bee population—a decline which may eventually give a contribution on to a global foodstuff problem.
The authors intersperse information regarding the difficult social constitution of the bee international and the issues confronted via bees—ranging from the ever-present Varroa destructor to overuse of insecticides and an ever-shrinking common landscape—with conversations and interviews with beekeepers and bee specialists from the world over, balancing the perspectives of these who see bees as easily a invaluable resource of source of revenue with the perspectives of these who see bees as undervalued, misunderstood creatures that desire our aid to outlive. the outcome is an engaging, obtainable review of a species that's the most important to our survival.
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The name American foulbrood is misleading, as the areas affected are not restricted to the North American continent. The name is simply derived from the chance fact that it was first properly recognized and described in the USA. The disease can be recognized by sunken, capped breeding cells. Typically, well-developed larvae are affected; they change to a sticky slime that is a bit cobwebby when poked with a toothpick. Infested colonies quickly become weak, and members of stronger colonies soon plunder the weakened ones.
Whereas humans can only differentiate a few individual images per second, bees can register 265 images. For our eyes, a walking pace of sixteen images per second just gives us the perception of general motion. A bee would see at more than two hundred images per second a series of jerky individual images. This is why they identify a quick and hectic defense as movement and thus a threat. This is also why it is better and safer to repel them with slow tai chi–like movements than with rapid swatting.
Our retinas have 40 Bees in the Lab blue-, green-, and red-sensitive cells. Bees have green, blue, and ultraviolet receptors; red for them is only something dark. Because they can see ultraviolet, bees can see lines, color patterns, and mixtures of colors on some blossoms that we cannot discern. ” Their perception of colors is not less pronounced than ours, just different. And our honeybees do react to color signals but, as a rule, do not allow themselves to be lured by the most colorful options.