Honey Bees Importance

The honey bees started to vanish rapidly without any reason in the year 2006. Honey bees are vital to the life of humans, plants, and animals. In the article “The Importance of Honey Bees”, Maria Boland writes, “Honey bees pollinate 80% of the earth’s plants, which converts to 1/3 of what humans eat.” The world should look into saving the honey bees because, without them, plants would not be pollinated, animals would die, humans would have a hard time finding things to eat, and the world would lose staggering sums of money. In the book The Backyard Beekeeper, Kim Flottum writes that Albert Einstein once said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Because the honey bee is important to all life on earth, our government should work to help educate children and adults on the honey bees, regulate pesticides sold, and help fund research towards protecting the honey bees.
Without the honey bees plants would not be pollinated which means they could not survive. According to Maria Boland, “Honey bees pollinate $14 billion or more worth of seeds and crops per year.” On the television show, National Geographic, “Honey Bees Resist Deadly Pathogens”, Jennifer Holland says, “Honey bees pollinate a few major crops which include: alfalfa, tobacco, and almonds.” Without the major crops, farmers cannot feed their animals. In the article, “The Pollination Cycle”, Matthew Kemshaw writes, “Honey bees pollinate the plants by flying to plants and picking pollen up on their legs, and as they fly from plant to plant, some pollen is transferred inadvertently from their legs onto other blooms, causing the process...

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...ere are ones destroy them.” If the government controlled the pesticide making process, it would help people not put harmful pesticides to honey bees on their plants.
People on the other side of this argument would disagree and say the government should not fund research, should not regulate pesticides sold, and would say not to educate people on honey bees. The government has been known to give out money to things that are not important; in the article “The American Dream”, Michael Snyder writes that the United States gave $1.5 million into research on why one third of lesbians are more over weight than gay males.
Honey bees are an essential element to the life on earth. If the world did not have honey bees, nothing could survive because the world is dependent on the honey bee to pollinate crops so they are able to grow and provide food to the animals and humans.