Are Honeybees Disappearing from North America?
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Not around here they aren't. I haven't heard any evidence to say they are, but it is possible. Not very likely however. I would say it is more likely that they are disapearing from a specific place, such as around you, because of changes in the climate, introducion of a new species that is competeing with or eating the bees, or something like that.
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When it looks like they need more room and are making comb that has honey in it instead of baby bees. Probably pretty soon. You want them to have a place to store the extra honey they are making if it is 'honey' season in your neck of the world.
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As is typical, loss of habitat is the greatest concern for AT as well as other special biomes.  For example, the polar bear has a yearly cycle in northern Manitoba and Ontario, in which it goes out onto the ice cover of the Hudson Bay in the fall to hunt, and returns in the winter- Recently, the freeze/thaw cycles have changed, and many of the bears are starving or being trapped on the ice.  Efforts are being made now to provide food and chase them off the early-thawing ice with helicopters, but obviously if the trend continues, it's likely a losing effort.  If the challenge is changing weather patterns, there isn't very much we can do, other than try to minimize the climate changes.  Other challenges include development of the area, especially for oil and coal exploration, which might seriously disrupt migration patterns of the large prey animals.  In general, though, the arctic tundra is not among the most threatened habitats, and so is not focused on as much as, for example, wetlands, rainforests, and coral reefs.
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Yep.\n\nNot just them, \nthere is just too many people now. We (we as in all)are destroying this land.  No more Northern Woods. We are depended on others (countries) to feed us-couldn't grow enough for all our own if we had too. They say more farms what they don't say is we purchase a hundred acres farm and used 60 acres for development  and divided it into smaller farms so the count looks good. Our water supply is short unless you want to drink the lakes. Wildlife has been limited in many areas. Its like no one sees the long term effects-------shortsighted.  If they themselves don't feel it -they don't see it. Then you get those I see plenty of land-well if everyone who lived here (cities included) wanted it divided how much do you think it per each would it come out too? Every see Japan's crowed areas would everyone like that?\n\nNo easy solutions. But how many people can United States of America hold and still be beautiful?\n\nJust look Wikpedia says 298.217,215 people/ land is 3,000,00,000 sounds good now if you take away the deserts,mountains,swamps, ect it brings it down less than 1/3 of a lot. Also consider some is used for businesses and commercial and service (hospitals, fire, police,schools, parks ect). Gee I don't think anyone can come till our kids stop populating like rabbits.
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Bison and buffalo are NOT the same animal. Only Americans have managed to confuse the two.\n\nBuffalo are Asian and African creatures. The most familiar are water buffallo but there are several other species. Buffalo are in no way extinct.\n\nBison are European animals that migrated into North America at the same time as humans. Bison today are found in North America and Eastern Europe. Bison are also in no way extinct.\n\nAt the time the first humans arrived in North America there were also several other species of animals closely related to bison. These animals are now extinct so only the European bison remains.
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Yeah I have read about that a lot of natural and alternative medicine books advocate this idea.Supposedly the insects not only bees are able to sense the deficiency and become threatened .
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Is Minnesota no longer real?  It is still on my map although I have not been there in a while.\n\nI think more and more states are disappearing and being replaced with cgi.\n\na pity.\n\n.
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Wolves were virtually eliminated as pests throughout much of the lower 48 States, and is listed as a threatened species on the U.S. Endangered Species List (although the species is not listed on the International Endangered Species List due to healthy populations remaining in Canada, Scandanavia and Russia).\n\nOnly Minnesota had a healthy population of gray wolves (Canis lupus) until re-introduction programs began a few years ago to bring wolves back into areas that they were once abundant in.\n\nToday, gray wolves can be found in Minnesota (2,500+), Michigan (321), Wisconsin (335), Montana (81), Idaho (285) and Yellowstone Park in Wyoming (271).  This is in addition to the 7,500 to 10,000 wolves living in Alaska and the estimated 57,000 that live in Canada.\n\nThe red wolf (Canis rufus) was extinct in the wild until a captive breeding program and conservation initiative re-introduced a handful to North and South Carolina.\n\nA similar captive breeding program and release initiative has also been used to try and return the Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) to the wild.  Today there are about 55 Mexican wolves in Arizona and New Mexico.  The U.S. Endangered Species List lists them as endangered, but also lists them as 'nonessential', mostly due to pressure from ranchers.\n\nSo yes, there are wolves in New Mexico, but not very many, and they are the exceedingly rare subspecies of wolf, the Mexican wolf.
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Many eusocial insects, including the honey bee, Apis mellifera, which is illustrated here, reproduce by swarming. Honey bee colonies swarm in the spring, sending the old queen and about half the colony's workers in search of a new nest. The old nest is inherited by one of the queen's daughters. Swarms generally settle on a tree branch near the old nest; scout bees then go out in search of a new nesting site. As many sites may be found, a method of choosing the best one is necessary. Scouts dance on the surface of the swarm, indicating the location of the sites.Over time, a consensus emerges among the bees concerning the best nesting site, as scouts who have found poorer sites stop dancing, while ever-increasing numbers of bees dance for the better sites.
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It seems that they're not in here.\nMaybe they're out IN nature?!?
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Arizona in the USA, Manitoba in Canada\n\nI believe those are the only two north american spots, however, not sure about Mexico's take on it.
1007362
no, not true but some bees yes.
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No periodical cicadas are expected to emerge in 2006. Next year, however, the 17-year cicadas will make an appearance in eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, and along the southern edge of Late Michigan. Dense populations of this brood (Brood XIII) will emerge in farm-edge woods along rivers as well as in suburban Chicago backyards and forest preserves.
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Nope, not all types of bees make honey! The eastern carpenter bee, alfalfa leafcutter bee, orchard mason bee, and the hornfaced bee are solitary bees, which means they don't live in hives with thousands of other bees. Each solitary bee is fertile, unlike the bees in hives in which only the queen bee and produce more bees. These types of bees don't produce honey or beeswax.\n\nHope this helps! I'm glad you're curious about these types of things.
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Its not. There have been a couple cases in Africa I believe, but you also need to think about population density and where birds and people are migrating to and from most often. In this case where are birds and people frok Asian moving away from and to. Right now there are a lot of birds migrating in the Northern Hemisphere and so therefore more incidneces in the North. Please check out the CDC web site for more info.
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You may want to read the official source for all things Honeybears here: http://www.fieldsoffortune.net/\nbut I found it not updated, it seems Chicago Honeybears has been history.
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Yes. It is a bit of a worry as its is displaying signs of 'grumbling'. If you are interested, there has been a volcanic eruption before which is potentially the size if Yellowstone blows it top. It happened 60-65Ma ago and is one of the possible reasons the Dinasaurs died out. \n\nIf and when Yellowstone goes, there is a very good chance that pretty much most of the US is going to be destroyed by either the flowing lava or the gases released into the atmosphere.\n\nAnyway I have provided you a link to the above mentioned Deccan Traps.