Pros Of Bees Research Paper

In many cases bees have been labeled a nuisance. To some people, especially people who are allergic to bees, these flying insects are no help; yet, in most cases they are essential to the survival of flowering plants or angiosperms. They complete the reproduction cycle of these plants and without them some plants would not have a successful pollination. Besides beekeepers, and other jobs where work relates to bees, these important creatures go unnoticed. Including bees “insect pollinators merit our preservation efforts because some 67 percent of extant flowering plants depend, to varying extents, upon them for reproduction,” (Tepedino 139) yet more and more people are discovering hives of bees are dying out with reasons unknown. With the loss of hundreds if not thousands of bees dying out scientists have started researching the causes of these deaths. They are finding pesticides, bee mites and even disposable …show more content…
In many situations bee keepers, especially commercial ones, lost between 30 to 90 percent of their hives (Suryanarayanan 33). From experience they are recognizing and noting situations where bees die out and where the colonies are stable. Over observations commercial beekeepers believe agricultural insecticides are the main cause to the high death in bee colonies. One insecticide particularly, neonicotinoid imidacloprid, was usually in the commercial fields that the bees were supposedly pollinating for fertilization. When studies where done on this insecticide and ones similar to it, interesting data was collected giving these bee keepers viable facts proving these insecticides were adverse on the bees health and pollination. Studies showed that “chronic feeding of neonicotinyl insecticides to honeybees at sub lethal doses comparable to levels found in pollen and nectar of treated field crops had delirious effects on learning, memory, behavior and longevity” of the honey bees (Suryanarayanan