Pollinator

farms to our refrigerators. Without different flying insects which pollinate flowers, crops and trees, an outstanding number of different crops and foods would be at risk for crisis. Many people do not know about the current problem with our global pollinators, which includes, many different species of bees. Luckily, scientists around the world are trying to prove that chemicals, pesticides and colony collapse disorder may be just a few reason why our global bee population is in decline. Have…

third of the crops rely on pollinators to some extent, but they do not rely on bees completely. Only 6% of the crops in the developed world rely completely on bees and other pollinators to produce a product. (Aizen 5) Most crops that take advantage of pollinators do not require them to produce a product. Crops in this category will produce more and or better products in the presence of pollination, but it is not required to produce a product. There is a spectrum of pollinator dependence of crops…

Ovaskainen, 2000), establishment (Bowman, Cappuccino & Fahrig, 2002), habitat selection (Fletcher & Hutto, 2008), animal predation of pollinators (Batary & Baldi, 2004), resource quality (Burke & Nol, 1998), and interspecific competition. Edge effects in plant and animal communities are common but may be positive (Chen et al., 1992) or negative (Bruna 2002) and affect distributions, abundance (Bolger et al., 2000), growth (McDonald and Urban, 2004), and reproduction (Burgess et al., 2006). Edge…

There are millions of insects in the world. Though one of the most fascinating species is the bee. Honey bees are well known for living in hives. They are also known for being one of the world’s biggest pollinator. The honey bee is one of the most well known specie of bee, and a well known pollinator. They are separated into different classes by what they do and their appearance. They live interesting lives, but what is life like inside a honey bee hive? I.what is a beehive? A. In the world…

pollinates and needs a pollinator in order to reproduce. The pollinator is a moth that comes and pollinates the plant at night because these moths are nocturnal and that's when the tobacco plants opens its flowers. However this can be dangerous for the plant because these moths may pollinate for the plant but at the same time it it can lay over two hundred plant eating caterpillars. The plant still has another trick to play however, now the plant can in fact adapt and change its pollinator so…

You may be shocked to read that in certain areas blow flies are actually more efficient pollinators than honeybees. These areas being the flowers of plants that give off pungent, rotten odours e.g. onion and cabbage. Another thing to consider is that blow fly pollinators have better pollination efficiency in greenhouses compared to most other pollinators. They are easy to rear and maintain, and it helps that their preferred plants are mostly planted in greenhouses. Not…

According to Jon Entine a senior fellow at the World Food Center Institute for Food and Agricultural Literacy at the University of California-Davis big chemical company like Bayer and Syngenta stated that “neonicotinoids aren't the main reason for bees population to decrease with diseases.” Bayer and Syngenta even made a test by having two groups of bees. One group of bees being exposed to neonics and other group not being exposed. “ Even at the highest dose of pesticide exposure, the…

and vegetables which supports the foundation of nutritional diets for Americans. “Fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, honey; are all nutrition-rich foods that are produced with the help of animal pollinators, especially bees” (). It’s estimated that 35 percent of foods worldwide are dependent on animal pollinators. In addition, pollination by honey bees contributes to 15 billion dollars of agriculture production in the United States. In the last several years, honey bees have received global…

organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.” Focusing solely on the honeybee, one of the world’s primary pollinators, they write how there has been a twenty-five percent loss in Europe since 1985 and a whopping forty-five percent decrease in the United Kingdom since 2010. According to the United States Global Research program, thirty percent of the overall “U…

“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…