Bees In order to reproduce, flowers and plants need to be pollinated. The main sources of pollination in nature are the bees. Flowers and plants are the primary food source for herbivores, which are, in turn, an essential food source for carnivores and omnivores. Without bees the whole food chain will be thrown off. I know all of this information because not only were they basic things we were taught in elementary school, but I am genuinely concerned about this topic. Through some background research I have learned that there are a variety of sources responsible for the bees steady extinction. Because there is such a large array of things killing them off, the bees are declining at a dangerous rate. I have also learned that bees are much more
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Every third mouthful of the food that we consume today was only made possible by the pollination of a bee (Majewski 114). Without bees, man would cease to exist. Einstein once said that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would only have four years to live” (Hoyt 12). Because of the dependence what we have grown to bee pollination, we would all suffer to find new ways to get the food that was once produced by bees. Bees are very manipulatable and can be moved to specific farms, therefore and abundance of bees would mean and abundance of pollinated crops. Without crops or bee farms, many companies and corporations would be shut down. There are a little over one hundred species of crops--providing for ninety percent of our food supplies--of those one hundred crops, seventy-one of them are bee pollinated (Hoyt 14). Another significant crop produced by bees is honey. Without honey production, a lot of bee farmers will lose money and stop farming bees. “Honey is 5x more expensive than oil...Last year my production dropped by 50%...the bees have declined and no one wants to beekeep anymore,” says Ernest Simeoni, an African bee farmer. When bee farmers lose money from the honey industry they have to move on and find different jobs. Bee farming is a key component of maintaining crops. Bees pollinate selective species at one time, which means people can force them to pollinate one specific crop at a time without straying (Majewski 115). If the bees were to dwindle to nothing, there would be a crash in major crops, a crash in honey production, and an ultimate crash in food
Every third mouthful of the food that we consume today was only made possible by the pollination of a bee (Majewski 114). Without bees, man would cease to exist. Einstein once said that “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would only have four years to live” (Hoyt 12). Because of the dependence what we have grown to bee pollination, we would all suffer to find new ways to get the food that was once produced by bees. Bees are very manipulatable and can be moved to specific farms, therefore and abundance of bees would mean and abundance of pollinated crops. Without crops or bee farms, many companies and corporations would be shut down. There are a little over one hundred species of crops--providing for ninety percent of our food supplies--of those one hundred crops, seventy-one of them are bee pollinated (Hoyt 14). Another significant crop produced by bees is honey. Without honey production, a lot of bee farmers will lose money and stop farming bees. “Honey is 5x more expensive than oil...Last year my production dropped by 50%...the bees have declined and no one wants to beekeep anymore,” says Ernest Simeoni, an African bee farmer. When bee farmers lose money from the honey industry they have to move on and find different jobs. Bee farming is a key component of maintaining crops. Bees pollinate selective species at one time, which means people can force them to pollinate one specific crop at a time without straying (Majewski 115). If the bees were to dwindle to nothing, there would be a crash in major crops, a crash in honey production, and an ultimate crash in food