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1. Bees, Honey (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
   Provides an interesting description of the bees, as well as a drawing. 10-00

2. Bees, Killer (Insecta-Inspecta.com)
   Provides an interesting description of the bees, as well as a drawing. 10-00

3. Bees Worksheets (AbcTeach)
   Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01

4. Domesticated Bees Shortage (NationalGeographic.com)
   "Decades of disease and overuse of pesticides have put the squeeze on populations of the domesticated honeybee. As a result, farmers are increasingly left with fields of flowering crops that fail to bear fruit."
   
    "Since some 15 to 30 percent of the food we humans eat directly or indirectly depend on the pollination services of bees, scientists say the problem threatens to take some excitement—and potentially abundance—from our diets." 10-04

5. Bees - Males Have Half the Chromosomes (NationalGeographic.com)
   "Bees, wasps, and ants from the group of insects known as the hymenopteran order and other invertebrates have males with only half the usual complement of chromosomes. These insects and invertebrates comprise 20 percent of all animals." 10-04

6. Bees Endangered by Mites and Pesticides (NationalGeographic.com)
   "Bees, via pollination, are responsible for 15 to 30 percent of the food U.S. consumers eat. But in the last 50 years the domesticated honeybee population—which most farmers depend on for pollination—has declined by about 50 percent, scientists say."
   
   "Unless actions are taken to slow the decline of domesticated honeybees and augment their populations with wild bees, many fruits and vegetables may disappear from the food supply, said Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at Princeton University in New Jersey." 10-04

7. -05-07-07 Bees Disappearing at an Alarming Rate (CBS News)
   "According to the Apiary Inspectors of America, a hive-tracking group, more than a quarter of the country's bee colonies have been lost — more than half-a million bee colonies that have simply vanished. What is actually happening — and what repercussions could it have on your dinner table?" 05-07

8. Virus May Be Causing Bees to Disappear (PBS.org)
   "A virus from Australia may be the culprit in the mysterious deaths of tens of millions of honeybees in the past year, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science."
   
   "Colony Collapse Disorder affected 23 percent of U.S. beekeepers last year. Affected beekeepers lost an average 45 percent of their bees to the phenomenon -- the bees simply disappeared, leaving empty or nearly empty hives." 05-07

9. New Clues in Mass Death of Bees (Time.com)
   "In late 2006, something strange began to happen to America's honeybees. Colonies that were once thriving suddenly went still, almost overnight. The worker bees that make hives run simply disappeared, their bodies never to be found. Over the past couple of years, nearly one-third of all honeybee colonies have collapsed this way, which led to a straightforward name for the phenomenon: colony collapse disorder (CCD)."

10. -09-10-09 Saving Bees: What We Know (New York Times)
    "The first alarms about the sudden widespread disappearance of honeybees came in late 2006, and the phenomenon soon had a name: colony collapse disorder. In the two years that followed, about one-third of bee colonies vanished, while researchers toiled to figure out what was causing the collapse."
    
    "Honeybees are just one of the many species we depend on that are struggling mightily to withstand a steady stream of novel parasites and pathogens they have never encountered before, and have no tools to defend against." 09-09

11. Phylogeny (University of Arizona - David Maddison)
    Provides phylogeny by group, by a root tree, by organism, or by a search engine. Includes Eubacteria and Eukaroytes, which include animals, fungi, and green plants. Animals include Echinoderms (Echinodermata), Vertebrates, Cnidaria, Cephalopods (Cephalopada), and Arthropods (Arthropada). Arthopods include Insects and Arachnids. Insects include Dragonflies, Damselflies, Lice, True Bugs, Beetles, Wasps, Bees, Ants, Flies, Butterflies, Moths, Crickets, Katydids, and Grasshoppers. Arachnids include spiders, mites, and scorpions. 2-01

12. See Like a Bee (B-Eye)
    Shows how images may appear to a bee.

13. Household Insects (Cook's Termite and Pest Control)
    Provides information on identifying and controlling common household insects, such as earwigs, ants, termites, centipedes, bees, wasps, silverfish, millipedes, cockroaches, and flies. Also discusses rodents, such as mice and rats. "Indoors, these pests may be controlled with natural or synthetic insecticide aerosols, such as pyrethrins."

14. Insects (Insectlopedia)
    Provides sources of information on Antlions, Beetles, Dragonflies, Mites, Termites, Ants, Butterflies, Fleas, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Arachnids, Cicadas, Flies, Moths, Wasps, Bees, Cockroaches, Mayflies, and Praying Mantids. Includes a search engine. 2-01

15. Insects A to Z (Insectlopedia)
    Provides links to some of the better known insects, such as Antlions, Beetles, Dragonflies, Mites, Termites, Ants, Butterflies, Fleas, Mosquitoes, Ticks, Arachnids, Cicadas, Flies, Moths, Wasps, Bees, Cockroaches, Mayflies, and Praying Mantids." 7-04

16. -Ants (Wikipedia.org)
    "Ants are social insects that belong to the same order as the wasps and bees. They are of particular interest because of their highly organized colonies or nests which sometimes consist of millions of individuals."
    
    "Up to a third (33%) of the terrestrial animal biomass has been estimated to be made up of ants and termites.[2]"
    
    "Termites, sometimes called white ants, though similar in social structure are not even closely related to ants." 01-07

17. "Astonishing Number" of Bee Colonies Lost (CNN News)
    "A survey of bee health released Tuesday revealed a grim picture, with 36.1 percent of the nation's commercially managed hives lost since last year." 05-08