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Bees are at high risk of extinction learn how to help them

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The loss of their habitat, climate change, urban sprawl and fires is rapidly affecting the loss of the global bee population.

We can help by planting local and native plants they are much easier to take care of, since they have the appropriate climate for your region and their flowers will give them food. Does not use pesticides.

Facilitates water they needs it to carry out its functions as honey producers. You can have a small fountain, pond, and if you want to help drink, leave some little sticks floating in it.

Approximately 75% of human food crops depend in one way or another on pollination. There are many types of pollinators other than bees, but they are the most efficient insects for this function. If the bees become extinct, they will cause a worldwide food crisis.

Learn a little more about them:

• A hive is structured in three castes: the Queen bee, the workers and the males or drones. It is the only fertile female. Lays fertilized eggs that give rise to worker bees.

• The queen can live between 3 to 6 years, worker bees for 45 to 50 days and drones that are male insects live approximately 3 months

• Bees use the sun as a compass. But when it’s cloudy, there’s a backup: navigating through polarized light, using special photoreceptors to find the Sun’s place in the sky

• When a bee finds a good source of nectar, she returns to her panel to inform her friends of what they found by doing a special dance.

• The worker bees have a lot of work: they secrete wax to build the combs and they are in charge of cleaning the hive, raising the larvae, monitoring the honeycomb, collecting nectar and pollen. This can give us a rough idea of how little a bee can produce individually. What’s more, to get a kilo of pure honey, you need the work of 2,500 bees in full productive season

• Bees do not hibernate. They make like a pineapple-shaped sphere in the center of the panel to efficiently maintain heat and feed on it, they live there until high temperatures return. This is why you never destroy a hive in winter, our friends are resting there.

• Bees hives are controlled Advanced superorganisms that can house up to 100,000 individuals.

The spectacular phenomenon of the Rainbow

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Behind all these legends is the meteorological and optical phenomenon, one of the most spectacular in nature. When it rains and light rays enter the water droplets, the light breaks down into colors (such as when light passes through a glass) and changes its direction. When this light reaches the opposite side of the drop, it tries to leave it but a small fraction does not succeed and is reflected backwards, leaving the face of the drop through which it had entered and undergoing a new refraction. Because the walls of the drop are curved, the light is reflected back towards an angle of 138º with respect to the incident light, which means that the rainbow can only be seen when we are facing away from the sun. This decomposition of white light was demonstrated by a prism by Newton.

 

It does not have seven colors. The range of colors in the rainbow is infinite. If it is a continuous spectrum in which one color becomes another, why do we always talk about seven colors? Seven is a number with strong superstition and associated mysticism. And it is that at the end of the 17th century, seven were the known celestial stars, seven the metals used in alchemy, seven the musical notes and seven the days of the week, so it seems logical that Newton designated seven colors to follow the famous law of seven.

There are rainbows without colors: They are the well-known rainbows of fog (Fogbow) that shows the reflection of sunlight due to droplets of water from the fog. The lack of colors is in the smallest size of the water droplets since the colors fade contrary to what happens in larger drops, which act as a prism reflecting sunlight.

Hurricanes Powerful, Relentless and Rearsome hurricanes. Why they are so important to our Planet

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The word “hurricane” derives from the Maya word “hurakan”, the name of a creator God, who, according to the Maya, spread his breath through the chaotic waters of the beginning, creating, for that reason, the earth. These form in the open sea of the equatorial zone, feed on heat and low atmospheric pressure.

The benefit and importance for our planet and for other living beings is rarely mentioned due to material damages and human lives lost but for the planet they form an important role as climate regulators and are activated when the planet detects unusual changes in temperature and pressure as a measure of control. Its severity and quantity depend on climate changes for this reason more and much more severe are forecast as climate change affects the planet.

The body is made up of more than 65 percent water, and it is the most important element in life. Take care of it!

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Of vital importance for the human being, as well as for the rest of animals and living beings that accompany us on planet Earth. Water is more important for survival than food, if you consider that it can resist without food that suffers for weeks, the same does not happen with the absence of water. The body stores it in large quantities and needs to constantly replenish it.

The importance of water resides in that it carries nutrients to the cells, helps digestion by forming stomach secretions, eliminates waste, maintains healthy kidneys and provides constant hydration to the skin, eyes, mouth and nose, lubricates the joints, regulates body temperature and metabolism.

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