The Consequences Of Honey Bee

Albert Einstein once said, “The day bees vanish from earth… man will go not long after”. Not many people are aware, but honey bees are slowly disappearing all over the world. In 2016 the honey bees’ cousin, the Hawaiian yellow-faced bees were classified as endangered. It will not be long until the honey bee joins them at their current disappearing rate. Honey bees pollinate more than just flowers, they pollinate about a third of the world’s consumable crops. Without these tiny heroes the world would consist of a small amount of fruits and vegetables. There has not been common insight to the world about the disappearance, though many activists are fighting to save the bees. “There were nearly 3.5 million honeybee colonies in 1989…the number
How global warming started is an issue that may or may not be preventative. This is affecting the world in so many ways and is another cause of the disappearance of honey bees all around the world. Due to the climate increase bees have failed to migrate to cooler areas resulting in bee territories shrinking by nearly two hundred miles in Europe and North America. Having this drastic loss of active bees will kill the crops that were in the areas that were failed to migrate to. According to Rader, climate change affects pollinator-dependent crop production Since seventy-five percent of the leading global food crops are produced from insect pollinator there will be a huge food shortage overtime. (1). In the image, Disappearing Bees, Natural Grocers demonstrated what a modern grocery store will look like in a few decades if the honey bees do take their plight. Without pollination the world will not develop fruits and vegetables as we have now. Most of the produce section is stripped away leaving potatoes, oranges, turnips, and a few others. The world will not have access to apples, all of the berries, lemons, cucumbers and so much more. (Natural Grocers 1). The global temperature change may be due to humans even though there is no proven result of that. There is proof that humans are killing off the bees with man-made chemicals inputting into crops such as GMOs and other preservatives. Pohorecka claims that seeds coated with clothianidin and imidacloprid are displeasing to the honey bees. There are negative effects using clothianidin. It is nice to know that so that people will stop using it in their crops. However, some other additives are resulting in reducing the risk of bees being exposed to toxic effects of the insecticidal dusts during maize sowing by seeding