Pollination

need bees to produce honey, relatively few people realize the importance of bees for the production of food crops and other agricultural staples. All plants – ranging from agricultural food crops to plants growing in natural ecosystems – require pollination in…

It is reported that in the United States, more than one- third of crops rely on bees. Only if crops such as almonds, peaches, soybeans, apples, pears, cherries, cranberries, strawberries, melons get bees’ pollination, can they bear fruit. In the past, in the southern part of Sichuan Province in China, bees were extinct as the result of overuse of farm chemicals. If they had not disappeared, a hive of bees could have pollinated millions of flowers every day.…

Bees. They make honey, they sting, and they inspired some pretty crazy hairdos in the 1960s. Were you aware though, that bees do much more than just provide us with alternatives to artificial sweeteners? In fact, bees, small as they are, play an immense role in the world’s ecosystem and production of food. So much so that they have a nearly direct effect on every other living thing, especially humans. As with most things in this world, though, people have a tendency to not be good stewards of…

Honeybees have made a major impact on the world, not just agriculturally, but economically. Honey bees are accountable for pollinating 80% of the United State’s fruit, vegetables, and seed crops. More than 100 different variety of plants in the United States are pollinated. The work of the honey bee is essential to the production of $7 billion worth of agricultural crops in Arizona alone. More than $15 billion a year in United States crops, are pollinated by bees, including apples, berries,…

cucumbers, onions, almonds, cranberries - what do they share in common? Besides the fact that they are examples of popular, everyday foods, they also share another theme: their production, as well as the production of several other foods, depends on pollination from bees. Logic says that without the presence of bees, agriculture would be intensely impacted. Yet, this very issue has begun to occur. In 2006, it was first reported that large numbers of seemingly healthy bees spontaneously…

wildlife or a piece of a wildlife system directly benefits human well-being it is referred to as an ecosystem service. Decline in bee populations worldwide is putting humankind at risk of damaging it’s most imperative ecosystem service: animal pollination of food crops. This essay will address the potential link between loss of bee colonies and use of neonicotinoid pesticides. It is also a response to the inadequacy of the steps taken by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2013 to…

anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible” (script-o-rama.com). Large amounts of bees are dying all around the world due to pesticides and fungicides on crops that contaminates pollen they collect. Bees are responsible for the pollination of more than half of the crops produced in the United States, so this is not something to be taken lightly. Action is required to prevent any further decimation of bees. “According to research from Michigan State University, bees are…

“The way humanity manages or mis-manages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,” UN Environment Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner said.. “The fact is that of the 100 crop species that provide 90 per cent of the world’s food, over 70 are pollinated by bees.” ("Humans Must Change Behaviour to save Bees, Vital for Food Production). Bees as pollinators play a major role in the world’s agriculture and the close…

Here, a specialized forager bee with her tube-like tongue sipps up nectar from the flowers. As she does that, her hairy body traps pollen and carries it between flowers helping plants to reproduce - this process is called pollination. A honeybee visits between 100 and 1500 flowers before her honey stomach is full. Yes, honey stomach. Bees have two stomachs: one for digesting and one that is used as a honey sac, where the enzymes begin to break nectar down into simple sugars…

California grows 80 percent of the world’s total amount of almonds. The almonds not only require a vast supplement of water, even through the treacherous droughts in the state of California, they require the work of honeybees to pollinate each almond tree. That means about two beehives for every ache of almond trees and at least 1.7 million beehives total, or 85 percent of all the available commercial beehives in the United States, according to Gene Brandi, a California beekeeper and vice…