Our most humbled, endangered, and unappreciated workers are the worker bees. These fuzzy creatures are making 1 in every 3 bites taken, possible. So before calling them a nuisance that goes around stinging people, consider that they are feeding majority of the world and are the biggest, most relied on pollinators. Unfortunately, our fuzzy friends are on decline, this can cause major damage to the worlds health and many farmers income,it is due to several factors such as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), pesticides, parasites, and lack of floral diversity (hoyt). In 2006 beekeepers started noticing their hives being mostly empty. Not so much empty as in the bees were dead, but they had left, leaving the queen and young bees unprotected, highly
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On one hand we want them to keep other bugs from eating our produce, but on the other hand we need our pollinators to do their job, thats seemingly impossible if they are being poisoned. Pesticides have been around a lot longer than CCD has been around and for the most part our bees were doing just fine and getting the job done, so whats different now? Theres a new bug killer in town, it is called a Neonicotinoid. These are essentially the big brother of pesticides, what happens is seeds are soaked in chemicals known as systematics before being planted. So for the plants whole life it has traces of chemicals throughout its entirety, not only is this making plants ‘naturally’ carry bug killing chemicals but they also last much longer than regular pesticides. Bees are being exposed to these chemicals, as they always have, but what the neonicotinoids do is slowly poison the bees which interferes with their navigation and flying abilities, eventually killing the bee. Pesticides are not only bad for our pollinators but bad for us humans, were paying more for organic products when farmers are paying more to have the pesticides, there is no winning situation there. Not only do these harmful chemicals play a role in killing the bees but so do the parasites living on their
On one hand we want them to keep other bugs from eating our produce, but on the other hand we need our pollinators to do their job, thats seemingly impossible if they are being poisoned. Pesticides have been around a lot longer than CCD has been around and for the most part our bees were doing just fine and getting the job done, so whats different now? Theres a new bug killer in town, it is called a Neonicotinoid. These are essentially the big brother of pesticides, what happens is seeds are soaked in chemicals known as systematics before being planted. So for the plants whole life it has traces of chemicals throughout its entirety, not only is this making plants ‘naturally’ carry bug killing chemicals but they also last much longer than regular pesticides. Bees are being exposed to these chemicals, as they always have, but what the neonicotinoids do is slowly poison the bees which interferes with their navigation and flying abilities, eventually killing the bee. Pesticides are not only bad for our pollinators but bad for us humans, were paying more for organic products when farmers are paying more to have the pesticides, there is no winning situation there. Not only do these harmful chemicals play a role in killing the bees but so do the parasites living on their