How Honeybees Affect Our Society

Insects play a diverse amount of roles in our lives, and even though they are treated as pests, they are very crucial components in some ecosystems. Insects are commonly valued for their ability to aerate the soils, pollinate blossoms, and control plan pests. But there is one particular insect that belongs to the Apoidea family that not only is very involved in our environment but also affects our economy. Bees or honeybees are known for their production of substances like silk, honey, and wax. Humans have been raising honeybees for hundreds of years, and in recent years, it is estimated that bees produce an approximate amount of a million metric tons. Bees are also used for agricultural business such as pollination for nearly a hundred different commercially valuable crops like fruits and nuts. But in the last decade, according to the beekeepers from North America and Europe, worker bees have been disappearing from the bee hives, later on, the entomologists gave a term to this phenomenon Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
The possible causes of CCD take the attention of media and became a controversy for Scientists. Possible causes of CCD are viruses like acute bee paralysis virus, the Kashmir bee virus, and the deformed wing virus due to be commonly found abundantly in CCD hives. Another studied causes are pesticides, they are the principal suspects nominated repeatedly because the lethal or sub-lethal levels that are constantly applied to prevent the possible damage from other insects, but there has not been a consistent pattern. The pesticides commonly found in the studies of CCD are called