Honey bee

“Save The Bees”... But no, really, Save them. Bees: A flying insect known for pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. These small insects get a lot of bad reputation for ludicrous reasons. The phrase “No Bees, No Food” has been floating around the internet in recent years and for a very valid reason. Millions of bees are perishing around the world, causing our food supply to shrink and environment being harmed drastically. Why are bees “so important” to our food supply? Well, bees…

why the honey bees are disappearing. Research suggests that one cause of the disappearance of the honey bees are diseases. One of the biggest threats to honey bees is Varroa Destructor “a large external parasite that attaches and sucks the blood from the bee. The Varroa mite, introduced by accident in 1987 by the Asian Honey Bee, has since developed a disastrous relationship with the American honey bee resulting in a significant loss from coast to coast. As it feeds it infects the bee with…

Preservation of the Honey Bee Our planet is run by big time corporations such as Monsanto, to mass produce genetically modified fruits and vegetables that produce their own form of pesticides and insecticides which successfully kill and deter said pest. Yet the organisms who’s primary function is to pollinate, unfortunately find their way into the crossfire of the ongoing war of biological interference. The organism most affected by the mass production of GMO’s are the widely spread and…

assurance out that something can be done. Honey Bee’s will soon be affecting our global…

about the loss of western honey bees. It is done by compiling evidence performed by tests and other articles on the subject. They bring attention how society has grown to know that the loss of bees, or natural pollinators, has been an epidemic. They reference this to bring the attention that, “pollinators for global food security; ~75% of all globally important crops depend to some degree on pollination.” While this is true, they mention the importance because the honey bees are not the bees we…

beings. The value of both wild and/or managed pollinators (such as artificial pollination) in the manufacture of commercial crops has been assessed in numerous countries and regions by using different approaches. The estimated value of the work of honey bees in the USA is somewhere between $1.6 billion and $14.6 billion (de Lange and Veldtman). With these six-legged employees gone, farmers would be losing billions of dollars of free labor, not including the cost of equipment, research, and…

pollination, bees are a vital contributor to food production. Unfortunately, the bee population has been dropping steadily for the last 60 years due to factors such as, pesticides, invasion of pests, and climate change (Walters 375). Neonicotinoids, an insecticide introduced into the market in the early 1990s (Lundin, et al.), has been largely blamed for this drop. The Ontario government, as an attempt to prevent the bee population in its province from further decline, issued regulatory…

earliest depiction of gathering honey from a bee was found. The painting shows a human figure on a rope harvesting honey from a wild bee hive, using smoke in order to divert the bees (Berrod). Thousands of years after the painting was created in the cave, the first evidence of beekeeping was found in ancient Egypt dating back to five thousand years ago. Wild honey was valued in Egyptian society so much that Egyptians would travel with their hives and would be found with honey in their tombs…

neonicotinoids, as well as any chemical, can cause an ever more occurring incident called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Colony Collapse Disorder is an incident that befalls a hive when worker bees disappear from a colony, leaving behind a single queen bee and larvae. When this occurs, the hive will soon cease to…

each year. They are so valuable to our society and if the bee population goes down, the human population will soon follow. Although many people are unaware of the shrinking bee population, scientific evidence has proven it to be a major problem. Due to CCD and other diseases, our food production and plant life could be decreased to dangerous levels, but the problem can be easily prevented. Throughout history we have seen a decrease in bee population, but nothing as severe…