Why Do We Really Kill Honey Bees?

Buzz, buzz is the sound that most people hate hearing because it means that a bee may be near. The thought of being stung is a fear that causes people to run away from these little black and yellow creatures and honey bees will do anything to protect their home, even if that means that they have to sacrifice themselves. However, an new pesticide has been made that protects plant and flowers against insects that may destroy them. The honey bees are around flowers all of the time and they are getting affected by this new pesticide and it is killing them. The honey bees have been losing their lives and land due to human development and pesticides. Although bees do not have the best reputation when it comes to humans, the bees deserve to
To do this ritual, a bride’s body was covered in honey to ensure fertility and after the ceremony, the honey that was on the bride’s body was served to the guests(Buchmann 46).They did this because they believed that the honey would ward off evil spirits at the ceremony and the newlyweds could live a happy life if the ritual was done correctly(Buchmann
Although they are important, humans’ actions do not show that they want to protect the bees. Due to human expansion, bees are forced to go into areas filled with people that might kill them every time they leave their hive or try to suffocate them with chemicals. Deforestation is also a cause of the bee decline because without trees to slow down the rainwater, the water to flood the bees’ home flower filled meadows and fields, causing them to relocate to another area(Buchmann 116). The U.S. Pollinator Health Task Force found that nonnative honey bees "have been in serious decline for more than three decades in the United States,’”(Kass). To pile on more problems, the bees have to deal with pesticides that are slowly killing them. Most gardeners and farmers use an insecticide, a type of pesticide, to kill insects that try to destroy their plants(Linker). Recently, neonicotinoids, which is an insecticide derived from nicotine, has been used a lot on flowers and other plants that bees pollinate and it is killing the bees(Dengler). The reason why this neonicotinoid insecticide is killing them is because scientists have found out that there has been traces of neonicotinoid in the plant pollen which is what the bees bring back to their hive(Dengler). Here is how the bees pick up this toxic pollen: Bees lands on a flower or plant and collects nectar from the plant or flower. While getting the