What Role Do Bees Play In Our Society
As you may know, the bees are vanishing. Most people may say, “ehh bees aren’t important, they just make honey”. Which is not true, bees play a huge role in our daily life. Did you know that bees pollinate one third of out diet? Without bees there wouldn’t be apples, oranges, melons or broccoli. Most people just don’t understand the seriousness of this problem! There has been a lot of misunderstanding and confusion when it comes to the reasoning of this bee problem. Up to this day there still isn’t an answer. Some have said, some had said that. There’s a lot of controversy because of the fact that there isn’t an actual answer. This big issue isn’t just in the U.S., its being seen in other areas. Weirdly enough it isn’t being an issue
in Canada or Australia. In the U.S it is getting worse and worse. There are 85 percent fewer queens, meaning 85 percent fewer hives. Also bee keeper’s experienced 40 to 50 percent or more losses of bees. A really big factor is said to be pesticides, known as neonicotinoids. Some environmentalist say that is should be banned or not to be used until more research has been done. Due to the fact that chemicals fog honey bee brains, making it harder for them to find their way home. While others say that pesticides are not to be blamed because honey bees are doing fine in Australia and Canada. Others say there simply fewer flowers, because of land development. Another factor that seems to be really big is mite and viruses. A great example of this significance was the fertilizing of California almond trees. Those trees require 1.6 million bee colonies to pollinate them. But due to the colonies of bees collapsing, the growers had to put together the necessary number of needed bee colonies. The vice president of the American bee keeping federation said “other crops don’t need as many bees as the California almond orchard do, so shortages are not yet apparent, but if trends continue, there will be”. That being said this issue has to be solved and something to be done! If I had to fix this issue I would do lots of research and study the pesticides, and the flowers. I would get a team of people who have a love for the environment and do anything that is needed to fix this.
in Canada or Australia. In the U.S it is getting worse and worse. There are 85 percent fewer queens, meaning 85 percent fewer hives. Also bee keeper’s experienced 40 to 50 percent or more losses of bees. A really big factor is said to be pesticides, known as neonicotinoids. Some environmentalist say that is should be banned or not to be used until more research has been done. Due to the fact that chemicals fog honey bee brains, making it harder for them to find their way home. While others say that pesticides are not to be blamed because honey bees are doing fine in Australia and Canada. Others say there simply fewer flowers, because of land development. Another factor that seems to be really big is mite and viruses. A great example of this significance was the fertilizing of California almond trees. Those trees require 1.6 million bee colonies to pollinate them. But due to the colonies of bees collapsing, the growers had to put together the necessary number of needed bee colonies. The vice president of the American bee keeping federation said “other crops don’t need as many bees as the California almond orchard do, so shortages are not yet apparent, but if trends continue, there will be”. That being said this issue has to be solved and something to be done! If I had to fix this issue I would do lots of research and study the pesticides, and the flowers. I would get a team of people who have a love for the environment and do anything that is needed to fix this.