Protect The Bees
Protect the Bees
Author id: 0963 Word Count:
Proposed species: Bees Proposed action: Protect
What are bees?
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are described and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.i A world without bees would be horrible. Einstein is known to have said that when the bees die out, the human population will follow suit in 4 years. Honeybees are crucial to the human population and if we fail to protect them and they go extinct, so could we.
Bees help pollinate a majority of all the crops on the planet.ii If the bees die out that means so do the crops that they pollinate. And from there it is like a bunch of dominos knocking each other over. The animals that depended on those plants will eventually die out. The people who depended on those animals will also die out. It becomes really bad really fast. That is why we must protect the bees and help them flourish again.
Why protect the bees?
Bees are vital to the existence of humans.
According the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bees pollinate about %80 of our flowering crops which constitute one third of everything we eat as humans.iii Let that sink in. Bees help provide the human population with about one third of the food that we consume. Things such as strawberries, apples, oranges, cucumbers, squash and tomatoes would not exist if there were no bees to pollinate them. If the bees were to become extinct, it would only be a matter of time before the human population started to decrease. Things like famine and malnutrition would become worries at an
Author id: 0963 Word Count:
Proposed species: Bees Proposed action: Protect
What are bees?
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are described and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.i A world without bees would be horrible. Einstein is known to have said that when the bees die out, the human population will follow suit in 4 years. Honeybees are crucial to the human population and if we fail to protect them and they go extinct, so could we.
Bees help pollinate a majority of all the crops on the planet.ii If the bees die out that means so do the crops that they pollinate. And from there it is like a bunch of dominos knocking each other over. The animals that depended on those plants will eventually die out. The people who depended on those animals will also die out. It becomes really bad really fast. That is why we must protect the bees and help them flourish again.
Why protect the bees?
Bees are vital to the existence of humans.
According the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bees pollinate about %80 of our flowering crops which constitute one third of everything we eat as humans.iii Let that sink in. Bees help provide the human population with about one third of the food that we consume. Things such as strawberries, apples, oranges, cucumbers, squash and tomatoes would not exist if there were no bees to pollinate them. If the bees were to become extinct, it would only be a matter of time before the human population started to decrease. Things like famine and malnutrition would become worries at an