Beehive Research Paper

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 president of the American Beekeeping Federation. Since the honeybees’ health has been going downhill, California is attracting more bees in from various parts of the United States. Beekeepers are sending their beehives to California every year when the state has nearly 500,000 beehives, with at least another million coming to California from thousands of miles away. Beekeepers in the United States make less profit producing honey than …show more content…
The main symptom of colony collapse disorder is a very low amount or no adult honeybees present in the beehive. Pesticides contribute to colony collapse disorder and when the bees are surrounded by these pesticides, they forgot their route on how to get back to their hive and go crazy (Mark Koba). Although pesticides are not a direct cause of colony collapse disorder. The cause of colony collapse disorder can result from a combination of factors, like pesticides, varroa mites, fungicides, loss of habitat, or diseases and viruses. In bee colonies affected by colony collapse disorder, varroa mites are typically found in them. In the winters from 2006 to 2011, colony losses averaged around 33 percent every year, one-third of the losses connected to colony collapse disorder