Where Have All the Bees Gone? - page 11

Index
agriculture
industrial-scale, 32,
50–51, 59, 75–76
and pesticides, 32, 59,
61, 64, 67–71, 76,
81, 88
and pollination, 33
sustainable, 86–88
angiosperms, 18, 21, 23
See alsoflowering
plants
bee colonies, 29, 32,
40–47, 52, 58,
60–61, 63
bees. See
alsobumblebees;
honeybees
anatomy of, 34–36
and climate change,
79–81, 85, 91
evolution of, 18–21,
27, 87
foraging by, 13, 16, 30,
32, 42–43, 45–46,
53, 55, 74, 76
habitat of,10, 12–13,
41, 74–76, 80,
83–84, 87, 91
nesting of, 29, 36,
40–47, 76, 84, 89,
91
ranges of,8,10, 12,
59, 80
reproduction of, 42–43,
46–47, 58, 69
beestings, 36, 44
bumblebees
colonies, 40–43,
45–47, 52, 58, 63
commercial, 50–56,
58–59
life cycle of, 42–44
Bumble Bee Watch, 86,
89
buzz pollination, 27, 30,
41
Carlinville, IL, 73–81
Carson, Rachel, 14,
65–67
climate change, 79–81,
85, 91
colony collapse disorder
(CCD), 60–61
corbiculae, 21, 35
Cretaceous period,
14–15, 19–21
cuckoo bees, 36, 38
Darwin, Charles, 19
deoxyribonucleic acid
(DNA), 20, 56
dichloro-diphenyl-
trichloroethane
(DDT), 66–67
drones, 40, 42–47, 58, 68
Endangered Species Act,
8–10,12
evolution
of bees, 18–21, 27, 87
of flowering plants,
18–21
extinction,8–11 , 22, 31,
87, 91
flies, 16, 18, 26, 31, 37
flowering plants, 76
evolution of, 18–21
reproduction of, 16–21
Franklin’s bumblebee,
6–11,50, 54–55, 91
Great Sunflower Project,
85–86, 89
honey, 32, 46–47
storing of, 32
honeybees
colonies, 29, 32, 40,
44–47, 60–61
commercial, 28–30,
32, 60–61
life cycle of, 46–47
nectar
bees foraging for,7,
16, 22, 25, 42, 46,
85, 88
in bee diet, 41, 59, 61,
68, 84
in making honey, 32,
45
non-bees drinking, 26
pesticides and, 68
use of proboscis to
drink, 21, 28, 35
neonicotinoids, 64, 67–71
Nosema bombi, 54–59,
71
organophosphates,
66–67
102