Pollinator decline

caused direct losses, but decreased amount in pollination, wax production, and honey benefits of over $283 million per year. An estimated of annual losses of $210 million from the pollination of honey bees to crops. Other possible explanations for the decline of honey bee populations includes the poor nutrition from its food, loss of habitat, and the poor management of the beekeepers. A recent study had stated the US beekeeper that since 1990, a one-fifth of honey bee’s domestic-managed honeybee…

Beekeepers are reporting alarming statistics regarding the deaths of multiple bee hives and scientists, researchers, and the public are concerned. Since 2006 beekeepers have seen an average decline of 33% of bees in colonies each year. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is the official name of the bee-killing disease, and this problem will significantly affect the economy and agriculture of the U.S. “About one mouthful in three of our diet directly or indirectly benefits from honeybee…

GMOs have a direct impact on the environment. Two widely used pesticides, Atrazine and Roundup, have been proven to cause a reduction in survival rates and production of eggs in organisms, such as snails (Barky, 2012). Pesticides can damage the DNA within an organism on a molecular level. It is because of this that Atrazine and Roundup, when polluting the aquatic environment, are able to affect the metabolism and reproduction of organisms. GMOs have the power to aid the environment, as well. For…

beehives. Since these early pioneers of apiculture, beekeeping has progressed to an essential aspect of modern agriculture. In America, the production of specialty foods such as berries, nuts, fruit, and vegetables have become reliant on not only wild pollinators as a whole, but domesticated bee’s specifically. Beekeeping has become a reputable business, one that entails beekeepers traveling across states with their colonies to pollinate farms all over the country. Unfortunately in the recent…

only for the production of our food but also as a significant form of revenue, begin to quietly dwindle away and it is not noticed until it is too late. Though that premise may sound far-fetched, it is just one possible conclusion if the current decline in the honeybee population continues, as $15 billion a year in agriculture depends on the health of the honeybee and one-third of the human diet is derived from insect-pollinated plants (Shock, 2015). This disappearance of adult bees from their…

"Rethinking Pesticides" by Scott Hoffman Black touches on the issues that pesticides have forced upon the ecosystem for millennia. Black mentions that even the Romans burned sulfur to kill insects and pests, and in the 1600s, people were even using a mixture of honey and arsenic to kill ants. Black’s overall goal in this article is to make people realize we need to study the effects of these chemicals on the whole environment before we simply use them for the “next quick fix.” He mentions that…

is said that carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere has increased from 280 parts per million to 398. The study shows that a bee with a one -third decrease in protein could drastically shorten a bee's life. The bees are one of our key pollinators, and a diet short of…

disappearing when we need them most. Bees are a fundamental part of Earth, and we must act now to help them to save our precious home. The decline in bee population has been written about for decades but it was not until recently it became problem. The United States Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection agency agree the noticeable decline started in 2006 when some bee keepers reported a loss of 30-90% of their hives. Some lost bees will always be normal as there will…

One of the biggest causes of bee loss is global warming, which changes the cycle of how flowers bloom in a certain season. Bees and pollinators hibernate, and often times what happens is that the flowers they need for food bloom before they are done with hibernation, which throws off the cycle in which the bees work in. Another danger against bees is the use of pesticides in farmland, which…

controls. They play considerably important job in our ecosystem. It estimates that bats deliver almost 6 billion dollars in pest control to agriculture, forest industries and everyone else each year(Provost, 2014). Bats also act as main source of plan pollinators and seed dispersal due to their fur. M.septentrionalis provide valuable services to agriculture through suppression of crop pests. A group of scientists, Josiah J. Maine and Justin G. Boyles conducted an experiment on effect of Bats in…