One out of every three mouthful’s of the food you eat directly or indirectly depends on pollination by honeybees. (Dieter Behrens and Robin F.A. Moritz, 2011) However, in the last 50 years the population of the domesticated honeybee, which most farmers depend on for pollination, has been diminished by 50 percent. (Purdue University, 2012) Recently, Purdue University research labs found that the decline of bees is from the insecticides used on farmers’ fields. Insecticides have been around for years…
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The “plight of the bees” is known scientifically and socially as colony collapse disorder. This is the name for the mysterious disappearance of honey bees. This seemingly disastrous phenomenon first gained popularity and media notability in 2007, and has since been a large topic for discussion and current event. It is well known that honey bees are disappearing, but what about the other species of bees? There are thousands of different species of bees native to North America (the honey bee was introduced…
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organisms and bees happen to be one of those. Changing temperatures and weather conditions due to climate change has restricted the area where bees can survive, and the pollinators have struggled to adapt to the changes. Many people will ask, “Why can’t bees migrate like butterflies? Don’t they have wings to fly to warmer places?” Justin Worland of Time sciences answers this question perfectly, “The research on bees suggests that not all species have the same ability to adjust. Though bees can easily…
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Honey bees (as shown in Figure 1) make up 80% of the world’s pollinating insects. One third of crops around the world depend on pollination and need honey bees in order to grow and survive. For example, apples, carrots, and onions have a 100% dependence on insect pollinators and 90% of that pollination comes from the honey bee while almonds depend on honey bees 100%. It is estimated that honey bees pollinate fifteen billion dollars worth of crops in the United States alone. About one third of every…
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the Bees! How is that apple you're eating? Chances are that without bees that apple would have never been pollinated and most other fruits too! Bees are very important to the who food chain without them we would have lots of unpollinated plants so the can not produce “the food” it provides for us. PCCD (phenomenon colony-collapse disorder) is what scientist are calling the disappearance from bees and the cause is preventable. Additionally americans need to protect bees because without bees our…
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The Problem of Decline in bee population in the USA Problem: Decreasing Bee population caused by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) During the 1980s onwards, the population of the bees had decreased at an alarming rate. The cause of the decline was “due to Varroa and tracheal mites: The first Varroa mite infestation was reported in 1987; tracheal mites were first detected in 1984.” [8] These die-offs forced many bee-keepers out of employment. These die-offs during the past were called…
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Disorder” (CCD). It is causing an increasing alarm all over the globe because of the significant role played by the honeybees in pollination. Honeybees are an important creature as pollinators which balances the ecosystem. They are at the basis…
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Yesterday I found a honeybeehive in my lawn the next day I brought it to school to show my techer. I gave some facts about it. I said that honey bees can proudce honey and beeswax. Also I said that honeybeehives can hold up to 80,000 bees and bees can help the evorment by doing cross pollination. Cool said my friend. Do you whant to put it on the class display said my teacher. shure I said. lets put a fact under it I said. What do you whant to put she asked. lets put that honeybees have three parts…
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human for a large number of reasons. These include pollination of plants, the basis of several logos (napoleon’s and the ancient Egyptian logo) throughout history, also some extremely common sayings including “making a beeline” and “as busy as a bee” come from the tiny insect. The honey industry, another key aspect of the bees value to human has adds sixty five million Dollars a year to the Australian economy. All the more reason us as humans need bees to survive. The average bee lives about twenty…
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Bees play a big role in our plant, but we don't really think about how much they actually do for us. Bees provide us with over 70% of our fruits and vegetables and help create cotton to make clothes. Now more than 50% of these bees are going extinct. To survive we need these bees because without them the human population will decrease. Since the 1990’s, beekeepers have been saying that their bees are mysteriously disappearing. Some say over 50-90% of bees have been disappearing. If this keeps happening…
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