The Downfall of Bees Nearly everyone loves coffee and chocolate, but not everybody knows how much bees help in the process of coffee beans and chocolate. Without the bees, we wouldn 't have the crops that are pollinated by them, we would only have wind pollinated crops like wheat. The only way that the bees population can be restored is if we all get the more of the world aware of how serious this issue is. Most people know that the bees are dying, but they don 't know why and how we can stop the rapid decrease of honeybees. Domestic honeybees are dying at an alarmingly fast rate periodically. They have been dying for a decade, up to 30% a year with losses of commercial honeybees at 40% in the United states since 2006, 25% in Europe …show more content…
Varroa mites are the bees biggest enemy or threat to the bees, they latch on like ticks or leeches, enfeebling their immune systems. Bees suffer from their own diseases and parasites, like the mites can weaken and or kill them. Most of the diseases and parasites are invasive species that can 't be fought through the natural adaptation of bees. Sick bees, or bees with parasites, are be more vulnerable to other factors, such as poor nutrition or exposure to toxic chemicals. It seems like as of now, the biggest reason that the honeybees could be dying is because of insecticides called neonicotinoids. The neonicotinoids, or neonics, potentially toxic to honey bees and other beneficial insects even with low levels of contact. Neonicotinoids may impact the bees’ ability to forage, learn and remember navigation routes to and from food sources. “When fields are sprayed with more pesticides, more fertilizers are applied and valuable agriculture structural elements such as hedges and rows of trees, are transformed into fields, the insects vanish.” (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, …show more content…
Bees are the main pollinators of many major fruit and nut crops. Without the bees, we wouldn 't have coffee, or chocolate. I 'm sure that nearly every American, if not most of the world, loves chocolate or coffee. Actually, most food we eat depends on natural insect mediated pollination. Without the bees we would have to rely on the windblown crops, like wheat, or other backbone pollinators like hummingbirds or bats. Cotton is pollinated by bees and other insects, so without bees there 'd be fewer choices for clothing material. Many medicines are plant-based, so if bees become extinct we would lose our source of some pharmaceuticals. Morphine is extracted from opium poppies. Opium poppies can self-pollinate, but they are better off being pollinated by bees. Many other plants used in pharmaceuticals also require pollination by insects. Without bees not only would we have less food and animals, but also less options for clothes, because of the lack of cotton, and lack of the base of all pain relievers,
Life is filled with challenges and conflict. However only a few can overcome and escape the confinements of their problems, others remain left behind to struggle. Sue Monk Kidd displays this with the imprisonment that Lily deals with throughout the book. While Lily does finds liberation at the end, she first had to break free from the imprisonments of her secrets, T-Ray, and the torment from killing her mother.
Meosha Robinson ISBL 10/22/2015 Monarch Butterfly Decline The monarch butterfly, scientifically referred to as danaus plexippus, is an extremely popular insect among North America. This insect is highly popular, not because it is beneficial to human existence but because it has the most distinctive migration pattern on top of its physical attributes that catch the human eye. The monarch butterfly has been recorded to travel over 2000 miles in order to get to their summer breeding ground (Oberhauser, 2004).
This project was chosen to investigate the decline of the honeybee and the impact on Australian agriculture. The honeybee decline is interconnected with environmental sustainability with key environmental challenges threatening the future of the honeybee and the industry of beekeeping. Some of these factors such as land degradation, limited water availability, loss of plant biodiversity, climate change, pests and pesticides loss of public lands such as National Parks, State forests and reserves, all impact on the sustainability and ecosystems which the honeybee depends and likewise, the ecosystems depend on the honeybee. With the disappearance of land to urbanisation and government restrictions on access to public lands some 70% of Australian
Without bees, there would not be as much food for humans to survive. Even though we need bees to survive many people go on with their day not ever thinking of what can save the bees. They use pesticides to grow their grass, never buy organic food or honey, and even kill bees that come near them. Scientist today started working on many different experiments to help save the
Gone With the Bee In the article, “A Real Buzzkill,” by Steve Ellis and Erich Pica it is describing how honeybees are dying off at an alarming rate, how the deaths of honeybees are affecting humans, and how countries are reacting to honeybees deaths. Apple,milk, butter, and coffee have one thing in common and that is without honeybees’ pollination they would disappear. “But thanks in part to the rampant use of powerful pesticides,known as neonicotinoids, these busy bees are quickly vanishing. ”Neonicotinoids are being used on 140 different crops by farmers, even though it has no effect on the crops; however, they are killing bees by damaging their nervous system, weakening their memories, and destroying their ability to fly.
Summary- In the novel, Secret Life of Bees, written by Sue Monk was about a young girl named Lily Owens, living on a peach farm in South Carolina. She shot her mother by accident when she was just a baby and now lives with her father, T-Ray, a harsh and strict father along with their housemaid, Rosaleen. Rosaleen was an African American lady who treats Lily like she is her very own child. She decided to go with Lily after she sneaks out of the hospital, to find information about her mother, as well as to get away from the raciest town.
Honey Bees have been on planet Earth for more than 100 million years. Each year the bee population has grown and multiplied, until, recently. “In the last half decade alone 30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished. Though the rate of bee depopulation is growing each year, 42% more last year than the year before, even at the current annual rate the estimated monetary loss is a colossal 30 billion dollars a year.” (8) A new disease of epidemic proportions is sweeping honey bee populations all over the world.
Jurassic Bees The environmental risk that we chose was, the fact that bees are dying at an alarming rate, and only a few are trying to stop it. According to the article, “The Role of Bees”, “If wild pollinator declines continue, we run the risk of losing a substantial proportion of the world’s flora” This quote is important because one the pollinators die out, so do we, because they make most of our foods. And bees, are the best pollinators because in the process they also make honey.
Without a steady bee population, there will be insufficient supplies of food to feed the exponentially growing global population. In the end, the irony is that the human attempts to current sustainability will ultimately damage future
The first thought that comes to mind when someone mentions bees: summertime nuisances and painful bee stings. It is what bees are famous for, but their impact on society is so much bigger than that. Pollination from bees is vital to creating a large number of the foods people eat. Honeybee honey has many healing properties, and a large number of medicines across the globe use it. The use of pesticides and the destruction of their natural habitats are killing bees, despite these being fairly solvable issues.
Bees in Decline Honey bees visit around 50-100 different flowers in one collection trip for honey; What would happen if millions of hives are declining in populations? The decline in bees is a serious problem that could cause the beautiful spring colors to turn dark and saturated without colors. This epidemic is worldwide, and could be a serious problem, more than one third of what goes on your plate is made with products that have been pollinated by bees (The Bees in). The bees have been declining in most of Europe because of the rough cold winters they have had the past years dropping their populations by almost 53%, as well as pesticides dropping the populations and killing of the entirety of a single hive ().
Every day bees are disappearing from their colonies at dangerously rapid rates. Everyone should become bee keepers and/or have bee gardens. It is the peoples’ duty to protect and save the bees. Bees play a major role in our everyday lives, and they go unnoticed. Without bees our food supply would quickly decrease.
In recent years, scientists have come to realize that the honeybee population has been dropping at a substantial rate. This is a problem not only in the United States, but throughout the world. The current fear is that food crops will be devastated because there are not enough bees to pollinate the existing crops. Honeybee decline is occurring for several reasons. However, current research shows a promising future.
We may not be realizing, but long term monitoring of the changes in global crop production over the past 50 years shows we are becoming more reliant on pollinator-dependent crops. Without bees, there could be serious problems for agriculture productivity and even food security in some regions of the world might have problems.
These levels were high enough to kill a bee instantly. In a study from 2016, 35 different pesticides and fungicides were collected from pollen that bees used to pollinate food crops in five U.S. states. Bees that came in contact with these combinations of chemicals were more likely to be infected with the Varroa Mite, a parasite that is associated with Colony Collapse Disorder. Colony Collapse Disorder is a phenomenon that occurs when all or the majority of worker bees suddenly disappear and leave their queen, plenty of food, and a few nurse bees behind. Without the worker bees, a hive cannot sustain itself and will eventually