In recent years, millions of bees have been dying off leaving consequences for our environment. We rely on bees to pollinate 71 out of the 100 crops providing most food for the world. Animals such as cows need their food (plants) before we do, so we can then eat them, as well as plants, as our food. So without bees properly pollenating, we have no food. Global warming, habitat loss, and parasites are a few causes of bees slowly disappearing. A bee-killing insecticide known as neonicotinoids is one of the biggest causes of bees slowly dying off. It works its way into the pollen and nectar of plants, which is very toxic for the bees and kills them when they go to pollinate. This also stops the growth of plants for bees to pollinate in the first …show more content…
A plan we could propose to the city council could be to change the law to where it states we cannot use as much of the insecticides as we have been using. Perhaps, we could even find other ways than just using neonicotinoids to treat out plants. We could maybe find less harmful things for bees, such as more organic or natural pesticides that will keep insects away from the plants rather than killing them AND the bees. If it would be too hard or impossible to change the law for which insecticides we use for plants, we could propose to fund for creating a safer way for bees to successfully pollinate. We could try and do things that benefit both the bees and the plants to keep them compatible for each other without insecticides killing both. Maybe we could put money forth as a community for certain things that will keep insects and parasites away from plants, such as some sort of barriers to keep them out yet make it to where bees can still enter in and get what supply of pollen they
middle of paper ... ... The governments of the affected countries must set aside funds that will help in carrying out research to establish the causes of CCD. Countries not affected by this phenomenon must also take all the necessary precautions to prevent their stock of bees from declining in numbers. If necessary steps are not taken as early as now, then many nations risk losing millions of plants due to lack of pollination and eventually we could be a famine-stricken world.
On the contrary, President Obama “unveiled a plan aimed at stopping the rapid decline in bee and butterfly populations” (“On May 19”). His plans are to reduce the death rate of bees which in turn will help out the agricultural production. He also plans to clear land in order to give the bees a bigger environment in which to repopulation and will ensure that no bees are harmed in the process (“On May 19”). The president sees the devastation that the decline could cause and is trying to combat the issue. The European Union has banned three pesticides in order to combat the decline but “have fallen short of providing adequate safeguards for the re-propagation of bee colonies”(“Bee research”). Governments are taking notice of the problem ahead yet still we are until to achieve the full support of all
By implementing a policy that bans the registration of neonicotinoids, policy makers aspire to return pollinator populations to normal levels through recovery through direct public action, specifically through a command-and-control policy. Due to varying opinions and sometimes misinterpreted literature, pest management has proven to be difficult and complex. Having to take into account a large number of input and output factors has limited the research conducted, though a clear link between neonicotinoid use and pollinator survival has been uncovered, debate still thrives on how to manage the use of such chemicals on crops and other applications.
Ultimately, we are at a crossroads when it comes to the crisis of CCD and the health of the honeybee. It has been clearly stated just how catastrophic the loss of the honeybee will be to our food system, which in turn will have dire consequences for our economy and environment. If the main culprit is truly pesticides, then CCD can be stopped because the problem is manmade. Yet, if it turns out that CCD is something that we cannot stop because we fail to pinpoint exactly what is going on, then the future looks to be a rough one. In essence, the health of the honeybee holds the key to our economical and financial prosperity.
What can we actively take part in to stop the collapse of bee colonies? Bees are such a vital part of our everyday agriculture production, however, colonies are diminishing before our eyes. Colony Collapse Disorder is a massive decrease of bees in hives and it is greatly affecting our crops because bees are not distributing the necessary amount of pollen to crops in order for them to grow the maximum, most nutritious produce possible. There are many solutions that may help CCD, such as banning neonics, urban beekeeping, and interbreeding honey bees with African killer bees. The most effective way to decrease CCD is by interbreeding honey bees with a stronger specie of bees labeled African killer bees.
In Europe and even in China honeybee populations are decreasing. This has an impact on everyone in the market. It effects how they food gets to the dinner table and how much it cost to put it there. Fresh produces will eventually end up being fresh produce from across the ocean or fresh produce made in a lab. It wasn’t until October 2006 when Hackenburg came public about his bees vanishing that anybody noticed that the bees were dispersing, but still scientist can’t prove the exact cause to CCD. In America nothing has really been done yet to help the honeybees. Other countries, like Europe did at least tried to maintain the current population of honeybees by amending a law that prohibited certain types of pesticides that many be harmful to honeybees. The most important thing that could be done to protect the honeybees is stop using pesticides that are harmful to important creatures like honeybees. Just like Europe did, put a ban on harmful chemicals to honeybees, until the honeybees numbers start to increase. Another logical way to help the honeybee population is to give a tax credit to people who decide to become bee keepers since bees are very important to the US economic
Buy regional and organic, avoid pesticides in your garden, plant bee friendly. Works Cited “The Economic Importance of Bee$.” BeeSpotter, University of Illinois. N.p., n.d. Web. The Web.
For thousands of years scientist have been performing vivisections on animals to find information on new chemicals, drugs, and vaccines. Vivisection is when scientist perform dissections among living animals mostly for the purpose of educating and retrieving information. Experimenting on animals has become the tool that has helped us comprehend the body functions of an animal and how a disease transforms the bodily functions, but over the years it’s caused animal rights activists to question the usefulness and the sincerity of using animals for this purpose. Although animal research has been helpful in the past, it is morally wrong in the sense that experimenting on animals is not the only way to collect information. There are other alternatives
his weekend was the start to our week long annual quilting bee. Every winter the women gathered together in the time of cold and made quilts while there was no farm work to do. The children are at school and do not need to be monitored as there is only so much they can do while the weather is freezing. Their chores are still the same however and they will have to run outside to feed the chickens, but I handle the housework. The good part about so many women in one place, is the food making process is much easier. We will cook for all our families and the help all at the same time. We will also help each other with the laundry and stitching up and fixing clothes. Any clothes that can’t be fixed will be cut up for the quilting process. Any old clothes from the last year that no longer fit will also be torn or cut up to be made into quilts for any of the families attending or to be shipped to grown children who are now attending college or have moved even farther west.
Lawrence, Timothy, and Walter S. Sheppard. "Neonicotinoid Pesticides and Honey Bees." Cru.cahe.wsu.edu. Washington State University, Nov. 2013. Web.
Pollinators are very important to the environment because many plant species rely on reproduction to be carried out by pollination1. Bees are dependent on plants for pollen and nectar and in return, are the most common pollinator of plant species and around 90 percent of plants require pollination by an animal7. Bees are used in farming, both for pollinating crops and for producing honey, and the estimated value of bees to the United Kingdom is £400 million per year9. Plants are the primary producers in many food webs and, as so many are dependent on pollination in order to reproduce, a decline in pollinators would have a detrimental effect to whole ecosystems. Therefore, the declining numbers of pollinators, particularly bees, are a cause of concern because of the environmental knock-on effects. High declines in adult bee numbers in some colonies have been reported and this decline is known as colony collapse disorder6. These declines are higher than normal and can go unnoticed by bee keepers because the bees do not generally die in the nest so the decrease is not immediately obvious. The problem addressed in this paper will be the decline of bees and the effects this decline has on the environment. The solutions proposed for this problem are increasing research, managing farming and spreading awareness. It is important to conserve the bee populations before the problem of decreasing pollinator numbers becomes too great to fix.
Bees play an important role to the existence of species throughout the world. Bees are considered one of the most important group of pollinators , thus they are the keystone to the production of many plants. Bees pollinate the seeds and plants which support and feed many organisms. By looking the cycle of life and the chain effect, it proves the existence of one specie is crucial to the existence to another, and so on. This being said, due to the bees’ existence and their ability to pollinate many types of consumable plants, they are considered to be crucial to the existence of entire world. However, due to the introduction of neonicotinoids, many problems could arise. One problem would be the sole reason to many other problem: the declination
After lots of research, here are the options. All of these don’t need big cages or terrariums, and you can pick one according to preference. However, some of them are bad options, so it is best to steer clear. I hope you find this research useful.
Imagine a world where there are no animals anywhere. There are still the ordinary cows, pigs, cats, dogs, but there is not a single tiger or rhinoceros. People all around the world have been killing animals for thousands of years and they need to stop and obey the laws. Make your voice heard for the animals; they can’t speak for themselves so we need to do it for them. Other reasons on why animals are getting put on the endangered species list and or going extinct: habitat intrusion, pet trade, climate change, and disease. Please help to save the animals or they won’t be here any longer.
Over the past decade bee populations have been dropping drastically. A 40% loss of honeybees happened in the U.S. and U.K. lose 45% of its commercial honeybee since 2010. This is a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in which worker bees from a beehive abruptly disappear in a short time. These data are definitely not meaningless since bees are a crucial part of the reproductive cycle of many foods. The impact bees have on the agriculture and the environment is far more crucial than we may think. Crops rely on bees to assist their reproduction and bring them life. Bees are renowned in facilitating pollination for most plant life, including over 100 different vegetable and fruit crops. Without bees, there would be a huge decrease in pollination, which later result in reduce in plant growth and food supplies. On the other hand, without the pollination progressed with the assistance from bees, the types of flowers According to Dr. Albert Einstein, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination…no more men”. That’s why bees’ extinction affects people more than we ever think, and could even forebode the doom day of human race.