Pollination

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…

Red beet (Beta vulagaris L.) is a crop of the Chenopodiaceae family [1]. The crop is primarily cultivated for its edible roots and valued extremely for its color [1, 2]. Over the past 20 years, the production of red beets in the United States is estimated around 200,000 tonnes/ year [3, 4], of which almost 95% of the cultivated red beets are canned and only 5% are consumed as a vegetable [3]. Interestingly, this root vegetable is a crop of commercial importance [5], that is also exploited for…

Pollinators Introduction: Pollination is the process by which pollen, is transported to the reproductive organs of female seed plants. Pollen is a fine, grainy substance, which are the gametophytes of male seed plants, and produce sperm cells. Pollination is what allows most plants to fertilize one another and reproduce. Pollination is important because many plants that humans consume, reproduce through pollination. Some examples of plants that reproduce through pollination that humans consume…

simple-decisions. This would be the ideal solution to the slow extinction of bees but even the scientists that are in the process of making the robotic bees have doubts, “We do not see robotic pollination as a wise or viable long-term solution to Colony Collapse Disorder. If robots were used for pollination, it would only be as a stop-gap measure while a solution…

The other main issue with cross pollination is the expenses it costs the non-GMO farmer to keep his products safe as possible. Although the actual costs of cross pollination are not mentioned in the previous article, tI was able to find a source that gave the actual amount of exactly how much revenue these farmers actually lost to cross pollination. According to “Organic Farmers Pay the Price for GMO contamination” from the food and water watch and organic farmers agency for relationship…

Pollinator Health Task-Force, run by the USDA and the EPA (U.S Dept. of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Agency). Actions to protect these pollinators included a plan to prohibit highly toxic pesticides when bees are under contract for pollination services, risk assessment for pollinators, encouraging pollinator-friendly habitats in land clean-up programs, and develop new seed-planting technologies that reduce possibly toxic dust as a few examples (Atkins, 212-214). Governments are not…

seeds on 20 plants from 5 different populations of Amianthium. Four pollen treatments were introduced: pollen from less than 2m, pollen from 5m, pollen from 15m away, pollen from 60m. A control group was introduced to check if there was any random pollination or self-pollinated seed production. Individual flowers were the units used, and treatment began at the lowermost flower until all five treatments had been applied. Pollen application occurred every other day for a month, with pollen from…

Honey bees are small winged insects that have a huge impact in our modern-day society and agriculture. Honeybees provide us with more than just honey; they also supply us with a wide variety of fruits and vegetables through pollination. Sadly, honey bees are on the verge of extinction. Without these tiny creatures, we would suffer a great loss in produce. Throughout this paper, we will explore what a honeybee is, it’s job, and how we can stop its extinction. The western honey bee is a…

is that honey bees are a big part of pollination everywhere around the world. Providing pollen to farmers' crops and other wild plants. The second reason is that honey bees make honey. Providing food for us and other animals. For example Bears. The third and final reason is what would happen if bees died off. So with that, let’s start the presentation. Let’s start off with why honey bees are a big part of pollination everywhere around the world. Pollination is the process of pollen being…

Albert Einstein once stated, “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” It is vital that everyone be informed about the problem with the bee population and the need to take action to save the bees. SOS-Bees is a denomination of Greenpeace which, according to their mission statement, is the “leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful…