Amy Barth’s purpose in writing “Rise of the ZomBees” is to recount how can we stop the bees from being turned into Zombees. In, 2008 a biologist found bees outside walking in circles. The biologist put them in a container and when they died there was only pupae. The pupae get in the bee by flies landing on them putting their eggs in them. The biologist and his team created a program called Zombee watch which is where you report Zombee sighting.
When I first read through Nathanael Johnson’s article discussing the fall of bee populations in relation to a catastrophic unearthly demise, I kept an open mind. With my personal opinion about the bee crisis stifled, I read on to see if Johnson could aptly convince me of his argument. Unsurprisingly, he failed.
The honey bee population is going down, and while most people think it doesn't really matter or just don’t notice it, they should because it is a very big problem. I think the other people should try and change that. If bees die then it will not be good, at all. In this persuasive piece of writing, I will be trying to make people rethink about the bee population, and what it could potentially do to the human race.
The two main components that hit home and made me feel a wide range of emotions during the film, “Waiting for Superman” are the different uses of logos and music. Logos is the use of statistics, which often made me either very somber or hopeful. Logos is helpful in the making of a film because it gives proof to the audience; instead of saying “test scores improved,” it would make the filmmaker sound more credible if he said “children’s average test scores in math and reading in Kipp Schools jumped from the forty-sixth percentile to the eighty-fourth percentile.” Music is not just in the form of songs; but everywhere you go. Throughout the documentary, a variety of different music choices were played to express the energy in that certain scene. Music is often thought of as a universal language, a language that can build suspense or create a sense of hopefulness or utter despair. It adds the extra potency necessary for ensuring that the audience is not only fully engaged, but also enthralled throughout the film. Guggenheim utilizes logos and music extremely effectively in his documentary as they impel the audience to experience a variety of emotions.
The presence of a bee generally scares people. So they swat at it, which makes the bee angry and defensive, which causes the bee to sting. Once the bee stings someone, it dies. Most people might think their death is a good thing. Unfortunately, various species of bees have been added to the endangered species list (Kennedy). Bees pollinate about 70% of the crops used by 90% of the world (What Would Happen) and as of February 2017, 10 million bees have died since 2010 ( Bennett). Bees need to be saved to ensure the Earth’s survival, along with our own.
Volk is a writer for Discover magazine and he follows around Darren Cox who is a 50 year old beekeeper who tries to make a change. The biggest question they are trying to answer is what is killing the bees, and how can it be stopped? Cox’s bees do not produce the amount of honey they used to and he would like to see an answer. Another point they consider is that the bees are not only dying, but they are weakening. He believes that the quality of work that bees put out is diminishing, which is then leading to the decrease in the quality of the honey in recent years. Volk’s article helps display how losing bees will impact us significantly. As far as solving the bee problem it is not what I was looking for but, I will use it as an example of what needs to change.
Amy Barths purpose in writing “Rise of the Zombees!” is to recount that the reason some bees act like zombies is because of zombie fly young eating out their insides. Biologist John Hafernik made the first discovery about the zombees in 2008; he noticed a few bees acting strangely, so he collected them for studying. John saw that after a few weeks, the bees had died and were replaced by brown fly pupae. After some extensive research, Hafernik found that the female zombie flies inject bees with eggs, and the young hatch inside of the bees. John wanted to find more zombees. So he set up zombee watch for people all over the country to try and locate zombees.
The colony collapse disorder has been threatening the United States for many years. Reports show excessive numbers of honeybees dying off. According to the Bee Informed Partnership and USDA’s annual survey, during the winter of 2013-2014, the mortality of managed honeybee colonies was 23.2. The previous winter’s report showed a loss of 30.5 percent of the colonies and thus, the winter 2013-2014 results might show some improvement. However, beekeepers persist that the still declining honeybee colonies are becoming too low for colony collapse disorder to be considered a solved issue. Approximately two-thirds of the beekeepers reported losses greater than the acceptable 18.9 percent mortality rate, thus deeming the losses greater than what is economically sustainable. The issue
This paper reviews the phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), or the disappearance of large swathes of the bee population in the US and elsewhere. It reviews the potential causes of CCD, including pathogens, pesticides, and other environmental factors that could contribute to bee deaths. Although many have linked the widespread use of pesticides to the phenomenon, there is no 'smoking gun' that is clearly implicated in causing CCD. The phenomenon can likely be attributed to a wide variety of factors, rather than a singular cause.
The bees believed that a communist society where they owned their own means of production would be a better life for them, but as Montgomery, the humans lawyer lost the trial he warned Barry that ‘a negative shift in the balance of nature is imminent’. As it turned out, the immense amass of honey put every bee out of a job, including the vitally important Pollen Jocks and Barry’s best friend Adam. Barry now believes he lives in an ideal world where no one has to work for anything ‘I don’t understand why they aren’t happy! We have so much now’ (Benson, Bee Movie 2007). The bees realised that living in the communist society was not the ideology they had wanted, now the bees didn’t need to make honey they had no work to do, this put bee kind in jeopardy as without bees making honey they was no pollination so the flowers were dying
If you didn’t know, honeybees are dying rapidly, and it is more serious than you might think. The decline of the honeybee is fairly complicated, as we cannot simply target one cause for the honeybee’s decreasing numbers. The combination of factors includes parasitic mites, Colony Collapse Disorder, harmful pesticides, poor nutrition, and habitat loss, all of which have contributed to the loss of droves of honeybees. This issue much more important than what the attention it is getting implies, as honeybees are an essential part to the agricultural society, and the human race in general. Not only are bees responsible for making honey, but also for pollinating a large portion of crops grown around the world. If we did allow honeybees to disappear,
From around the year 2006, many bee farmers in the U.S.A and some parts of Europe started reporting sharp declines in their bee stocks. The reason for this declining numbers was not known and therefore scientists named it colony collapse disorder (CCD). Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a not a very old phenomena and it became popular when large number of bee colonies started disappearing. The disappearing was mysterious since no dead bees were found in or around the beehives after a colony’s number was reported to have gone down or vanished. This prompted a lot of study and investigations to uncover the mystery and to establish possible remedies. Among the many reasons for the causes of the CCD
Amy Barth’s wrote “rise of the zombees”, my opinion is zombees are really weird. To start, When a female zombie fly lands on a honeybee she injects fly eggs into it. A zombie-fly stays in a honeybee. Additionally, These fly pupae came from inside the bees. A zombie-fly eats the bees to make a zombee. Finally, As a result, the bee begins to show signs of strange, zombie-like a behavior. It acts like a zombie and walks in circles on the sidewalk. My opinion is zombees are really weird.
Albert Einstein once said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man” (“Einstein Once Said…”). After careful thought on this matter, this can be a scary concept to process. Millions of years have passed with the honey bee gracing the earth, and in fact, the honeybee is the only insect that aids in the production of food that is consumed by the human race (“20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts!”). Imagine going to a grocery store and there being no almonds to buy, a scarce supply of apples to choose from, and a very limited
While the world’s farmers produce enough food to feed the planet, one-third of the food produced for human consumption is not really consumed. Globally, there exists up to 1.3 billion metric tons of uneaten food very year. And in addition to that, growing and transporting that food is estimated to create 3.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, which makes wasted food one of the world’s largest emission contributor.
For many year, the death penalty has been widely debated throughout the United States. We as a country are divided on this topic; half believing it is unjust, unconstitutional, inhumane, and cruel. The other half believing it is morally just and constitutional. Those thinking it is cruel want capital punishment abolished. The others want to see it revised and maintained.