* Object Name: CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder)
* Title: Bees Vanishing
* Creator: Tiwei Lin (Diwai Kawanishi)
* Date: Feb.13 2009
* Summary: HoneyBees are the most economically valuable pollinators of agricultural crops. In the recent years, however, it's reported the severe and unusual colony declines happened nationwide, even approaching 35% in 2008. Many suspect this phenomenon is due to new breeds of nicotine-based pesticides.
* News Sources: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6438373.stm
* Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoyTShcnfJw
* Interaction: People can see so many the main agricultural crops are pollinated by bees in hexagon pictures. Also, they can feel how severely the rate of bees vanishing represented by 7 unhealthy hives among the total 20 hives (equal to 35%). Finally, the pesticide with dark fog shows it would cause great damage to bees' lives.
* Motivation: We should not neglect any alarm from the fragile ecosystem, for any creature plays unique role and the loss of anyone's distinction cannot be compensated by human. Furthermore, bees vanishing directly influences the supply of food and significantly raises the costs of agriculture activities.
* Description: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33938.pdf The above file is a 19-page long report that summarize the importance of bees pollination, the symptoms of CCD, and issues for Congress. It provides most of materials for this project, includeing a table representing the most important agricultural crops (vegetables, nuts, fruits, field crops, etc.,) valued by bees in Page 6, and statistics gathered from nationwide about how many bees declined in 2007 (30%) and in 2008 (35%) in Page 1.
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