Many fruits that we can taste are product of some trees that need the pollination so they can be produced; the most important pollinators are the bees which are in charge of that work but, what is happening with this important pollinator’s colony?
“The next time you see a bee buzzing around, remember that much of the food we eat depends significantly on natural insect-mediated pollination – the key ecosystem service that bees and other pollinators provide.” (Greenpeace, 2014)
The insect pollination is fundamental when it needs to produce a big amount of some kind of crops for example the apple trees, pear trees, cherries trees, almond trees and some plum trees need a pollination to produce a lot of fruits. According to a research made in Europe by Greenpeace says that without insect pollination, about one third of the crops we eat would have to be pollinated by other means, or they would produce significantly less food. Up to 75% of our crops would suffer some decrease in productivity. Undoubtedly, the most nutritious and interesting crops in our diet (including many key fruits and vegetables), would be badly affected by a decline in insect pollinators; in particular, the production of apples, strawberries, tomatoes, and almonds would suffer.
Bees – including the managed honeybees, together with many wild species – are the predominant and most economically important group of pollinators in most geographical regions. Moreover, wild bees are also threatened by many environmental factors, including lack of natural and semi-natural habitats, and increased exposure to man-made chemicals.
Nonetheless, the most important factors affecting pollinator health relate to diseases and parasites. Underlying all the other factors, climate change is also putting increased strains on pollinator health. Some pesticides pose direct risk to pollinators. The elimination of bee-harming chemicals from agriculture is a crucial and most-effective first step to protect the health of bee populations they stated in their article Bees in Decline.
Also this research identify some of the main threats that put in risk these pollinator colonies which are:
Diseases and parasites Many beekeepers agree that the external invasive parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is a serious threat to apiculture globally. Other parasites, such as Nosema ceranae, have been found to be highly damaging to honeybee colonies in some southern European countries.
Industrial agriculture Pollinators, managed or wild, cannot escape the various and massive impacts of industrial agriculture: they suffer simultaneously from the destruction of natural habitats caused by agriculture, and, because pollinators’ natural ranges inevitably overlap with industrial farming landscapes, the harmful effects of intensive agricultural practices.
Climate change Many of the predicted consequences of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and more erratic or extreme weather events, will have impacts on pollinator populations. Some of these changes could affect pollinators individually and ultimately their communities, becoming reflected in higher extinction rates of pollinator species.
After having knowledge about all this topic I can say that I have learned something new, even it is something that we look everyday like something small but, we don’t even imagine what important are these little bees that we often see buzzing around. In my opinion I thinks that a topic like this must be share with the population, chiefly people like us that will be teacher we must knowing and teaching as well we have to convey this situation, since, our health sometimes depend of some fruit and vegetables that are involved in this matter. What is truth is that if we don’t put our hands on the matter, it can eventually become a serious problem in the whole world and I think that we have enough with the global warming.
Writing: What´s happening to bees? Recently, scientists are worried about a phenomenon named colony-collapse-disorder that consist in worker bees disappearing from their hives, leaving behind food, nurse bees and the queen. This situation provoked a decline in the bee population, which has been reported around the world. This a mystery for beekeepers and as the same time, a problem that needs solution. Researches mentions that between 70%- 90% of the gardening in America as same many crops and plants, that formed part of our diet, are pollinated by bees. What is mean is the pollination made by bees plays a very important role in agriculture and, consequently, in food supply for human and animals beings. Studies try to find the causes for declining in bee population. One theory is an infection attacking the bees and, consequently, killing them before the normal life long term time. Another reason proposed is poor nutrition which affects his possibilities of having a productive life. In addition, pesticides and radiation could have been provoking bad effects over behavior´s bees, making feel them to act erratically or feel stressed. Last years, the number of beehives and beekeeper has fallen considerably. This situation affects the economy of many people who had been working in this sector for many years, included, decades. In spite to increase bee population and low the cost of renting a hive, that has rising more than 100%, many bees has been imported in order to bring an immediately solution.
According to the statistics, the 77 percent of almonds are grown in the United States, but in 2010 declined by approximately 70 percent. In fact, losing bees can have tragic consequences, for us as well as them; bees are pollinators for about one-third of the plants we eat. The main reasons for global bee-decline are linked to industrial agriculture, parasites/pathogens and climate change. The loss of biodiversity due to monocultures and the wide-spread use of bee-killing pesticides are particular threats for honeybees and wild pollinators. Due to the above, the hive rental cost in the last 20 years, increased more than 145 percent. According to BBC News(2018).” In Australia, amateur beekeepers say the suggestion about sugar water to help bees in distress is sound” That’s problem affect around the world, we can copy this idea and join together to save the bees.
It’s probably that you know bees because you like honey in your pancakes but, do you really know the importance of these little guys? Well for start it bees are creatures that pollinize the crops. Bees also provide help on the biggest fields with many kinds of fruits and these make some companies wealthy enough to keep with the recollection of honey and others products that you can get from the honey. Bees are in danger lately with a good amount of problems, their habitat is starting to die because cities are growing so, this mean that they are losing their hives when the pollution and smoke is near it. Also the bees are not getting where to pollinize. On England and Wales between 1930s and 1980s around the 97% of wildflower in these two regions disappeared. The big quantity of pesticides that people are normally used to put in their fields it is known to provoke the killing of many bugs and animals who most likely eat their harvest; however this pesticide makes the bees to get away or it kills them. With the big industries of food having a lot of pesticides on their fields, this implies that bees are not going to be able to pollinize the flowers and they will die and if this happens scientist says that this will be having a huge impact in our world. Starting with the supposed death on the fields of every harvest around the world to the different species of animals dying because of the lack of plants and fruits to eat. So make sure to take care of the bees and if you can, try to not polute the environment where you live in.
SCIENCE REPORT: WHAT’S HAPPENNING TO BEES? Bees around the world are disappearing more and more everyday putting in danger not only the humanity but world economy and nature as well. Bees has been underestimated by human trough time and its more important for our survival that we could ever imagine, bees pollinate a third of everything we eat and play a vital role in sustaining the planet’s ecosystems. For start, ¿Why bees are disappearing? There are many explanation of why bees are disappearing, one of them is a phenomenon called the colony collapse disorder, which wiped out a third of all honeybee colonies in the US (it is know that this also happened in other countries for example the UK according to the Guardian newspaper) when it first struck back in 2007. The disorder is still not fully understood, but a combination of parasites, viruses, poor nutrition and pesticides are thought to be behind the widespread death of honeybees in the US, where 40% of colonies are still dying each year. There’s been little research on solitary bees by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that almost one in 10 of Europe’s wild bee species face extinction as a result of intensive farming, insecticide use and climate change. ¿What are the consequences of the disappearance of bees? According to The Guardian newspaper: “84% of the crops grown for human consumption – around 400 different types of plants – need bees and other insects to pollinate them to increase their yields and quality. These include most fruits and vegetables, many nuts, and plants such as rapeseed and sunflowers that are turned into oil, as well as cocoa beans, coffee and tea”; this shows how important the bees are for our alimentation, as a matter of fact without bees, in a few years we could be starving because of food insufficiency and probably lead us to our disappearance; There is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein (although there is no proof he actually said it): “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years left to live.” Bees are not only important for our alimentation but also for the world economy wellbeing, the value of bees in the matter of money incomings are estimated around $16 billion in the US alone, honey production from around 135 thousand American beekeepers caring for approximately 2.44 million colonies totaled almost 148.5 million pounds in 2007. This production was worth over $150 million with a per pound cost of all honey at 103 cents (According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service). Without bees, billions of dollars would be lost not only in the US but the rest of the world and the economy of many countries will fall down one-by-one like pieces of domino. Finally, bees are also important to the environment not only because of the pollination, bees are known for their elaborate hives, these are homes for millions of other insects and animals. Their role as pollinators is vital in the growth of tropical forests, savannah woodlands, and temperate forests. Many tree species couldn’t grow without pollinators like bees. If they disappeared, the animals that depend on these plants for survival would vanish as well according to Home and Garden website. As pollinators, bees play a part in every aspect of the ecosystem. They support the growth of trees, flowers, and other plants, which serve as food and shelter for creatures large and small. Bees contribute to complex, interconnected ecosystems that allow a diverse number of different species to co-exist. The disappearing of would result in a catastrophe for humans and nature that maybe we wouldn’t be able to survive, for that it is imperative to find a solution for this problematic as soon as possible.
The bees are an important part in the pollination of the plants. In the actually, the bees are in danger because according to the reposts more beekeepers in the U. S had lost more than 70 percent of their bees. This phenomenon has worried the beekeepers and agricultures because the bees are important in the process of the pollination of seeds and crops. A Cornell University study estimated that bees pollinate more than $14 billion worth of U.S. seeds and crops annually. One example is that approximately around of 77 percent of the almond production entirely dependent on honeybees. This problem not only is present in U.S other countries as Canada, Brazil, and parts of Europe. Researchers have investigated the answers of this phenomenon one theory was that the bees were dying from a virus, a parasite, or a fungus affection. Other theory blamed poor bee nutrition, pesticides, and cellphone radiation, the modern agriculture and industry are responsible that damage bee cognition. For example, diesel fumes and pesticides both reduce bee foraging efficiency by disturbing chemical communications in their brains. Also other important responsible is the climate change caused by the humans, this interferes with the relationship between bees and the plants on which they feed. The bees are important in our life, for to preserve we have to improve the environments in which they collect food. Every small action can make a difference.
10 years ago scientists realized that bees hives started to disappear and started wondering what's happening to bees, currently scientists are doing experiments to try to understand what's happening to them. Because they haven't find their bodies anywhere and that's why the question. one hypothesis they have about the situation is the use of pesticides for some decades.
HYPOTHESIS Bees are starting to disappear as a consequence of the use of pesticides for so many decades, this is a phenomenon that's happening right now, so many people might think that this is not important because bees are that small that we wouldn't notice their absence, but until today the scientist community are still not sure about the real reason of the disappearance of the bees.
FACTORS THAT ARE AFFECTING THE BEES: First we have the use of pesticides, Bees are been killed because of the use of these products but, we may think it is impossible to harvest without them but, there is always a solution. We can come back to the traditional way where the farmers used to plant completely natural. currently so many countries are using this old way. To restore the plants and eat fresh and healthy again. Climate Change, this is other factor that is affecting the bees because if the temperature rises in the planet that make the animals to go and try to find a difference place to establish and most of them died in the process because they don't have the conditions to survive or adapt to the change, this is a hypothesis of what's happening to the bees. The loss of biodiversity, is the other factor that is affecting the bees, this is related with the previous one, the climate change makes animals to move from their ecosystem and most died in the process. the other try to evolve to resist the changes in temperature, in space, the other living beings around and many more things, the planet is losing its biodiversity, each day a specie is declared extinct. And we are responsible for that. the good news is there are still a hope, we can reverse the current situation. In 2008, the British Bee Keepers Association estimates that honey bees make a significant contribution to the £165 million annually generated for the UK economy through pollination by insects, with the figure put at £200 million in 2009 by the UK’s Public Accounts Committee. Many flowering food crops in the UK rely on honey bees for this service, for example: apples, pears, field beans, runner and dwarf beans, broad beans, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and oil seed rape, with 39 commercial crops reliant on bees in total. In 2010, it was estimated that bees contribute $US40billion per annum. According to the American Beekeeping Federation, honey bees contribute $15bn to US crop production alone. Honey bees are vital for crops such as almonds. And finally, even the flower growing industry is starting to take note. Here is an example of a small scale, wildlife-friendly flower grower. so we have to take care of them and preserve the specie.
Most people in the world every day consume honey but they do not know that every day they decrease. There are causes that contribute to the process of bee reduction, among which I mention the commitment to monocultures and the use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers and pesticides, in addition to the parasites that affect these insects such as varroa. Without bees the pollinator process would suffer a strong thrust and that would affect the crops fruits, vegetables and vegetables. What is happening with the bees? On the planet there are around 20,000 species of bees that are responsible for the pollination of a myriad of flowers and wild plants, but also the crops that humans need for their survival. We tend to focus more on honey bees, which provide us with the wonderful honey and generate a greater attraction for their way of organizing and working. But the truth is that all the species play a fundamental role and also all of them are threatened. The figures are devastating. According to the prestigious American entomologist Marla Spivak, professor at the University of Minnesota and one of the experts on the most recognized bees, the disappearance of these insects from the Second World War to the present day has been dizzying.Currently there are half the bees in 1945 and that translates into two million less only of the honey species. These numbers are being repeated in the Old Continent, where the European Food Safety Agency has also warned that we are facing the possible extinction of bees due to the abnormal decrease in their population in the last two decades.
Why are bees becoming extinct? One of the most worrisome circumstances of this reality is that the reasons that they are disappearing are numerous. Marla Spivak has diagnosed several causes that are influencing decisively. On the one hand there is the reduction of alfalfa and clover plantations. This fact may seem anecdotal, but it is not when it is explained that these two crops act as natural fertilizers that help fix nitrogen in the soil. Without them you have to resort to artificial fertilizers and here there is a double stab for the bees. On the one hand because these products are harmful to them and, on the other, because alfalfa and clover provide them with a high nutritional value. To this deadly cocktail for bees, we must add the use of herbicides in agriculture that is killing many wild flowers that, although apparently do not contribute anything to the human being, are key in the survival of these insects. The monocultures are not helping anything either. Where there was a great diversification of plantations, now we only see large areas of land where corn or soybeans are planted. It is what Marla Spivak calls "agricultural deserts" or "food deserts". In short, we have left aside the variety propitiating landscapes without flowers and that gives another little step so that the bees are in danger of extinction. One thing leads to the other, because monocultures are more prone to pests. To combat them, pesticides and pesticides are used, other enemies of bees because they contain neonicotinoids, a type of insecticide that attacks their central nervous system and causes the colony collapse of apiculture. The bees that do not carry these harmful agents to their lives, they also end up contaminating human beings. As if they were not enough, they also have their own parasitic diseases as happens to humans. One of them is the varroa, to limit that sticks to the bee and can destroy entire lives. They also suffer the voracity of predators like the increasingly dangerous Asian wasp. It is necessary to take care of the environment to save bees. Organizations such as Greenpeace, National Geographic and experts like Marla Spivak themselves, try to make the population aware that a small gesture can be very important for the survival of bees. This action consists of planting native flowers of the area in which each one lives. They can do it in their yards, gardens, parks, green areas ...
What's happening to bees? There are different circumstances that are being affected in different countries like USA, Canada, Brazil and parts of Europe for different possible theories. One theory was that the bees were dying from virus, a parasite, or a fungus infection. Other theories blamed poor bee nutrition, pesticides, and cell phone radiation. Since the total number of beehives has dropped , demand for beekeeping services has pushed up farmers. We can see that in the U.S. bee population (Millions) from the 1990 to 2010 to descended in 78% approximately in the which is very worrying. In the same way we can see in the circular chart the globally almond production in different countries in the which California, USA represent in the 77% very high to rest the countries and the one that has less almond production is shared between Turkey and Greece. These are some of the statistical data that can be seen to what is happening to the bees.
Bees are not just something that could be related only with honey. Some fruits and vegetables like strawberries, eggplant, apples, and cucumbers needed some form of pollination to produce. Even though are different types of bees, birds, and even bats can pollinate plants, however honey bees are the most prolific and productive of pollinators, which mean is one of the main pollinators in the animal kingdom. What is Pollination? Pollination is transfer of pollen from one flower to another, which in turn lets the plant reproduce. Honey bees will fly to the flowers of and collect pollen, that contains the male gametes, then will distribute pollen to the stigma of the female plants; the stigma of the stile receives the pollen that initiates fertilization. The honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly 55,000 miles to make honey. Approximately 1/3 of all the food we eat is pollinated by honey bees. What is worrying is that an astounding statistic is that in the last 20 years the domesticated honey bee population has shrunk by 30-50% Then, what is happening to the bees? Symptoms of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) include the relatively sudden disappearance of the majority of the bees. Possible causes of CCD are pesticides because sing pesticides on plant kills any type of insect. When the honey bee collect pollen or nectar, she might could be contaminated with pesticide and then could carry back to the hive and kill her net mates. Another cause is the intensive agriculture. Beekeepers and farmers often move hives to different locations (even different states). Scientists theorize that this excessive moving resulting a fast seasonal change and colony stress may confuse the honey bees and make them susceptible to disease. What can you do? Plant flowers and plants in your garden that honey bees love, and make it friendly, so don’t kill honey bees. Without honey bees there would be no pollination, agriculture, food, animals and then humans. Become a beekeeper, whatever efforts we can make are appreciated by the honey bees and our community.
What’s happening with the bees?
ReplyDeleteMany fruits that we can taste are product of some trees that need the pollination so they can be produced; the most important pollinators are the bees which are in charge of that work but, what is happening with this important pollinator’s colony?
“The next time you see a bee buzzing around, remember that much of the food we eat depends significantly on natural insect-mediated pollination – the key ecosystem service that bees and other pollinators provide.” (Greenpeace, 2014)
The insect pollination is fundamental when it needs to produce a big amount of some kind of crops for example the apple trees, pear trees, cherries trees, almond trees and some plum trees need a pollination to produce a lot of fruits. According to a research made in Europe by Greenpeace says that without insect pollination, about one third of the crops we eat would have to be pollinated by other means, or they would produce significantly less food. Up to 75% of our crops would suffer some decrease in productivity. Undoubtedly, the most nutritious and interesting crops in our diet (including many key fruits and vegetables), would be badly affected by a decline in insect pollinators; in particular, the production of apples, strawberries, tomatoes, and almonds would suffer.
Bees – including the managed honeybees, together with many wild species – are the predominant and most economically important group of pollinators in most geographical regions. Moreover, wild bees are also threatened by many environmental factors, including lack of natural and semi-natural habitats, and increased exposure to man-made chemicals.
Nonetheless, the most important factors affecting pollinator health relate to diseases and parasites. Underlying all the other factors, climate change is also putting increased strains on pollinator health. Some pesticides pose direct risk to pollinators. The elimination of bee-harming chemicals from agriculture is a crucial and most-effective first step to protect the health of bee populations they stated in their article Bees in Decline.
Also this research identify some of the main threats that put in risk these pollinator colonies which are:
Diseases and parasites
Many beekeepers agree that the external invasive parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is a serious threat to apiculture globally. Other parasites, such as Nosema ceranae, have been found to be highly damaging to honeybee colonies in some southern European countries.
Industrial agriculture
Pollinators, managed or wild, cannot escape the various and massive impacts of industrial agriculture: they suffer simultaneously from the destruction of natural habitats caused by agriculture, and, because pollinators’ natural ranges inevitably overlap with industrial farming landscapes, the harmful effects of intensive agricultural practices.
Climate change
Many of the predicted consequences of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and more erratic or extreme weather events, will have impacts on pollinator populations. Some of these changes could affect pollinators individually and ultimately their communities, becoming reflected in higher extinction rates of pollinator species.
After having knowledge about all this topic I can say that I have learned something new, even it is something that we look everyday like something small but, we don’t even imagine what important are these little bees that we often see buzzing around. In my opinion I thinks that a topic like this must be share with the population, chiefly people like us that will be teacher we must knowing and teaching as well we have to convey this situation, since, our health sometimes depend of some fruit and vegetables that are involved in this matter. What is truth is that if we don’t put our hands on the matter, it can eventually become a serious problem in the whole world and I think that we have enough with the global warming.
Writing: What´s happening to bees?
ReplyDeleteRecently, scientists are worried about a phenomenon named colony-collapse-disorder that consist in worker bees disappearing from their hives, leaving behind food, nurse bees and the queen. This situation provoked a decline in the bee population, which has been reported around the world. This a mystery for beekeepers and as the same time, a problem that needs solution. Researches mentions that between 70%- 90% of the gardening in America as same many crops and plants, that formed part of our diet, are pollinated by bees. What is mean is the pollination made by bees plays a very important role in agriculture and, consequently, in food supply for human and animals beings. Studies try to find the causes for declining in bee population. One theory is an infection attacking the bees and, consequently, killing them before the normal life long term time. Another reason proposed is poor nutrition which affects his possibilities of having a productive life. In addition, pesticides and radiation could have been provoking bad effects over behavior´s bees, making feel them to act erratically or feel stressed. Last years, the number of beehives and beekeeper has fallen considerably. This situation affects the economy of many people who had been working in this sector for many years, included, decades. In spite to increase bee population and low the cost of renting a hive, that has rising more than 100%, many bees has been imported in order to bring an immediately solution.
What is happening to bees?
ReplyDeleteAccording to the statistics, the 77 percent of almonds are grown in the United States, but in 2010 declined by approximately 70 percent. In fact, losing bees can have tragic consequences, for us as well as them; bees are pollinators for about one-third of the plants we eat.
The main reasons for global bee-decline are linked to industrial agriculture, parasites/pathogens and climate change. The loss of biodiversity due to monocultures and the wide-spread use of bee-killing pesticides are particular threats for honeybees and wild pollinators.
Due to the above, the hive rental cost in the last 20 years, increased more than 145 percent.
According to BBC News(2018).” In Australia, amateur beekeepers say the suggestion about sugar water to help bees in distress is sound”
That’s problem affect around the world, we can copy this idea and join together to save the bees.
It’s probably that you know bees because you like honey in your pancakes but, do you really know the importance of these little guys? Well for start it bees are creatures that pollinize the crops. Bees also provide help on the biggest fields with many kinds of fruits and these make some companies wealthy enough to keep with the recollection of honey and others products that you can get from the honey. Bees are in danger lately with a good amount of problems, their habitat is starting to die because cities are growing so, this mean that they are losing their hives when the pollution and smoke is near it. Also the bees are not getting where to pollinize. On England and Wales between 1930s and 1980s around the 97% of wildflower in these two regions disappeared. The big quantity of pesticides that people are normally used to put in their fields it is known to provoke the killing of many bugs and animals who most likely eat their harvest; however this pesticide makes the bees to get away or it kills them. With the big industries of food having a lot of pesticides on their fields, this implies that bees are not going to be able to pollinize the flowers and they will die and if this happens scientist says that this will be having a huge impact in our world. Starting with the supposed death on the fields of every harvest around the world to the different species of animals dying because of the lack of plants and fruits to eat. So make sure to take care of the bees and if you can, try to not polute the environment where you live in.
ReplyDeleteSCIENCE REPORT: WHAT’S HAPPENNING TO BEES?
ReplyDeleteBees around the world are disappearing more and more everyday putting in danger not only the humanity but world economy and nature as well. Bees has been underestimated by human trough time and its more important for our survival that we could ever imagine, bees pollinate a third of everything we eat and play a vital role in sustaining the planet’s ecosystems. For start, ¿Why bees are disappearing? There are many explanation of why bees are disappearing, one of them is a phenomenon called the colony collapse disorder, which wiped out a third of all honeybee colonies in the US (it is know that this also happened in other countries for example the UK according to the Guardian newspaper) when it first struck back in 2007. The disorder is still not fully understood, but a combination of parasites, viruses, poor nutrition and pesticides are thought to be behind the widespread death of honeybees in the US, where 40% of colonies are still dying each year. There’s been little research on solitary bees by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that almost one in 10 of Europe’s wild bee species face extinction as a result of intensive farming, insecticide use and climate change.
¿What are the consequences of the disappearance of bees? According to The Guardian newspaper: “84% of the crops grown for human consumption – around 400 different types of plants – need bees and other insects to pollinate them to increase their yields and quality. These include most fruits and vegetables, many nuts, and plants such as rapeseed and sunflowers that are turned into oil, as well as cocoa beans, coffee and tea”; this shows how important the bees are for our alimentation, as a matter of fact without bees, in a few years we could be starving because of food insufficiency and probably lead us to our disappearance; There is a quote attributed to Albert Einstein (although there is no proof he actually said it): “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years left to live.”
Bees are not only important for our alimentation but also for the world economy wellbeing, the value of bees in the matter of money incomings are estimated around $16 billion in the US alone, honey production from around 135 thousand American beekeepers caring for approximately 2.44 million colonies totaled almost 148.5 million pounds in 2007. This production was worth over $150 million with a per pound cost of all honey at 103 cents (According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service). Without bees, billions of dollars would be lost not only in the US but the rest of the world and the economy of many countries will fall down one-by-one like pieces of domino.
Finally, bees are also important to the environment not only because of the pollination, bees are known for their elaborate hives, these are homes for millions of other insects and animals. Their role as pollinators is vital in the growth of tropical forests, savannah woodlands, and temperate forests. Many tree species couldn’t grow without pollinators like bees. If they disappeared, the animals that depend on these plants for survival would vanish as well according to Home and Garden website. As pollinators, bees play a part in every aspect of the ecosystem. They support the growth of trees, flowers, and other plants, which serve as food and shelter for creatures large and small. Bees contribute to complex, interconnected ecosystems that allow a diverse number of different species to co-exist. The disappearing of would result in a catastrophe for humans and nature that maybe we wouldn’t be able to survive, for that it is imperative to find a solution for this problematic as soon as possible.
The bees are an important part in the pollination of the plants. In the actually, the bees are in danger because according to the reposts more beekeepers in the U. S had lost more than 70 percent of their bees. This phenomenon has worried the beekeepers and agricultures because the bees are important in the process of the pollination of seeds and crops. A Cornell University study estimated that bees pollinate more than $14 billion worth of U.S. seeds and crops annually. One example is that approximately around of 77 percent of the almond production entirely dependent on honeybees. This problem not only is present in U.S other countries as Canada, Brazil, and parts of Europe.
ReplyDeleteResearchers have investigated the answers of this phenomenon one theory was that the bees were dying from a virus, a parasite, or a fungus affection. Other theory blamed poor bee nutrition, pesticides, and cellphone radiation, the modern agriculture and industry are responsible that damage bee cognition. For example, diesel fumes and pesticides both reduce bee foraging efficiency by disturbing chemical communications in their brains. Also other important responsible is the climate change caused by the humans, this interferes with the relationship between bees and the plants on which they feed.
The bees are important in our life, for to preserve we have to improve the environments in which they collect food. Every small action can make a difference.
SCIENCE REPORT: WHAT'S HAPPENING TO BEES?
ReplyDelete10 years ago scientists realized that bees hives started to disappear and started wondering what's happening to bees, currently scientists are doing experiments to try to understand what's happening to them. Because they haven't find their bodies anywhere and that's why the question. one hypothesis they have about the situation is the use of pesticides for some decades.
HYPOTHESIS
Bees are starting to disappear as a consequence of the use of pesticides for so many decades, this is a phenomenon that's happening right now, so many people might think that this is not important because bees are that small that we wouldn't notice their absence, but until today the scientist community are still not sure about the real reason of the disappearance of the bees.
FACTORS THAT ARE AFFECTING THE BEES:
First we have the use of pesticides, Bees are been killed because of the use of these products but, we may think it is impossible to harvest without them but, there is always a solution.
We can come back to the traditional way where the farmers used to plant completely natural. currently so many countries are using this old way. To restore the plants and eat fresh and healthy again.
Climate Change, this is other factor that is affecting the bees because if the temperature rises in the planet that make the animals to go and try to find a difference place to establish and most of them died in the process because they don't have the conditions to survive or adapt to the change, this is a hypothesis of what's happening to the bees.
The loss of biodiversity, is the other factor that is affecting the bees, this is related with the previous one, the climate change makes animals to move from their ecosystem and most died in the process. the other try to evolve to resist the changes in temperature, in space, the other living beings around and many more things, the planet is losing its biodiversity, each day a specie is declared extinct.
And we are responsible for that. the good news is there are still a hope, we can reverse the current situation.
In 2008, the British Bee Keepers Association estimates that honey bees make a significant contribution to the £165 million annually generated for the UK economy through pollination by insects, with the figure put at £200 million in 2009 by the UK’s Public Accounts Committee. Many flowering food crops in the UK rely on honey bees for this service, for example: apples, pears, field beans, runner and dwarf beans, broad beans, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and oil seed rape, with 39 commercial crops reliant on bees in total.
In 2010, it was estimated that bees contribute $US40billion per annum. According to the American Beekeeping Federation, honey bees contribute $15bn to US crop production alone. Honey bees are vital for crops such as almonds.
And finally, even the flower growing industry is starting to take note. Here is an example of a small scale, wildlife-friendly flower grower. so we have to take care of them and preserve the specie.
By Stephanie Lopez A.
Most people in the world every day consume honey but they do not know that every day they decrease.
ReplyDeleteThere are causes that contribute to the process of bee reduction, among which I mention the commitment to monocultures and the use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers and pesticides, in addition to the parasites that affect these insects such as varroa.
Without bees the pollinator process would suffer a strong thrust and that would affect the crops fruits, vegetables and vegetables.
What is happening with the bees?
On the planet there are around 20,000 species of bees that are responsible for the pollination of a myriad of flowers and wild plants, but also the crops that humans need for their survival. We tend to focus more on honey bees, which provide us with the wonderful honey and generate a greater attraction for their way of organizing and working.
But the truth is that all the species play a fundamental role and also all of them are threatened.
The figures are devastating. According to the prestigious American entomologist Marla Spivak, professor at the University of Minnesota and one of the experts on the most recognized bees, the disappearance of these insects from the Second World War to the present day has been dizzying.Currently there are half the bees in 1945 and that translates into two million less only of the honey species.
These numbers are being repeated in the Old Continent, where the European Food Safety Agency has also warned that we are facing the possible extinction of bees due to the abnormal decrease in their population in the last two decades.
Why are bees becoming extinct?
One of the most worrisome circumstances of this reality is that the reasons that they are disappearing are numerous. Marla Spivak has diagnosed several causes that are influencing decisively.
On the one hand there is the reduction of alfalfa and clover plantations. This fact may seem anecdotal, but it is not when it is explained that these two crops act as natural fertilizers that help fix nitrogen in the soil. Without them you have to resort to artificial fertilizers and here there is a double stab for the bees.
On the one hand because these products are harmful to them and, on the other, because alfalfa and clover provide them with a high nutritional value.
To this deadly cocktail for bees, we must add the use of herbicides in agriculture that is killing many wild flowers that, although apparently do not contribute anything to the human being, are key in the survival of these insects.
The monocultures are not helping anything either. Where there was a great diversification of plantations, now we only see large areas of land where corn or soybeans are planted. It is what Marla Spivak calls "agricultural deserts" or "food deserts". In short, we have left aside the variety propitiating landscapes without flowers and that gives another little step so that the bees are in danger of extinction.
One thing leads to the other, because monocultures are more prone to pests. To combat them, pesticides and pesticides are used, other enemies of bees because they contain neonicotinoids, a type of insecticide that attacks their central nervous system and causes the colony collapse of apiculture.
The bees that do not carry these harmful agents to their lives, they also end up contaminating human beings.
As if they were not enough, they also have their own parasitic diseases as happens to humans. One of them is the varroa, to limit that sticks to the bee and can destroy entire lives. They also suffer the voracity of predators like the increasingly dangerous Asian wasp.
It is necessary to take care of the environment to save bees. Organizations such as Greenpeace, National Geographic and experts like Marla Spivak themselves, try to make the population aware that a small gesture can be very important for the survival of bees. This action consists of planting native flowers of the area in which each one lives. They can do it in their yards, gardens, parks, green areas ...
What's happening to bees?
ReplyDeleteThere are different circumstances that are being affected in different countries like USA, Canada, Brazil and parts of Europe for different possible theories. One theory was that the bees were dying from virus, a parasite, or a fungus infection. Other theories blamed poor bee nutrition, pesticides, and cell phone radiation. Since the total number of beehives has dropped , demand for beekeeping services has pushed up farmers.
We can see that in the U.S. bee population (Millions) from the 1990 to 2010 to descended in 78% approximately in the which is very worrying.
In the same way we can see in the circular chart the globally almond production in different countries in the which California, USA represent in the 77% very high to rest the countries and the one that has less almond production is shared between Turkey and Greece.
These are some of the statistical data that can be seen to what is happening to the bees.
Bees are not just something that could be related only with honey. Some fruits and vegetables like strawberries, eggplant, apples, and cucumbers needed some form of pollination to produce. Even though are different types of bees, birds, and even bats can pollinate plants, however honey bees are the most prolific and productive of pollinators, which mean is one of the main pollinators in the animal kingdom.
ReplyDeleteWhat is Pollination? Pollination is transfer of pollen from one flower to another, which in turn lets the plant reproduce. Honey bees will fly to the flowers of and collect pollen, that contains the male gametes, then will distribute pollen to the stigma of the female plants; the stigma of the stile receives the pollen that initiates fertilization. The honey bees visit around 2 million flowers and fly 55,000 miles to make honey.
Approximately 1/3 of all the food we eat is pollinated by honey bees. What is worrying is that an astounding statistic is that in the last 20 years the domesticated honey bee population has shrunk by 30-50%
Then, what is happening to the bees? Symptoms of CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder) include the relatively sudden disappearance of the majority of the bees. Possible causes of CCD are pesticides because sing pesticides on plant kills any type of insect. When the honey bee collect pollen or nectar, she might could be contaminated with pesticide and then could carry back to the hive and kill her net mates. Another cause is the intensive agriculture. Beekeepers and farmers often move hives to different locations (even different states). Scientists theorize that this excessive moving resulting a fast seasonal change and colony stress may confuse the honey bees and make them susceptible to disease.
What can you do? Plant flowers and plants in your garden that honey bees love, and make it friendly, so don’t kill honey bees. Without honey bees there would be no pollination, agriculture, food, animals and then humans. Become a beekeeper, whatever efforts we can make are appreciated by the honey bees and our community.