Bio

Imagine a world without bees, it's almost post-apocalyptic, the world is slowly dying and people are drastically scavenging food and water, now back to the present and see a world where there is a tremendous decline of bees for almost no apparent reason and only speculation as to why this is happening. The Toronto Star published a newspaper article about the sudden decline/disappearance of bees, also known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). It stated that scientists are worried that bees are not too far away from extinction at this rate of disappearance. Determining a cause is difficult because of the complicated nature of bees, and with this topic slowly gaining attention, the amount of research going on may soon find answers for the phenomenon (Calamani 2005). The demise of bees will mean the end of any ecosystem, and with the on-going research a determinant maybe discovered. The article suggests that there is "no starting point" to measure the decreasing rate of bees (Calamani 2005), but are there any common factors that are clearly related to bees in separate ecosystems? With tha...