This brings me to my third point, how every day humans like you can save the bees. According to the human society, they recommend planting bee friendly plants in your backyard. These include native wild flowers, or any flowers that are blue, purple, white, or yellow. As I mentioned in my first point, bees are attracted to anything bright and fragrant. Also, if you can start eliminating any garden pesticides you might use right now, and support your local beekeepers. And buy local, organic food from farmers that you know. Savebees.org also recommends providing homes for native bees – these homes can be any wood cavity nesting with some damp soil. Bees are thirsty insects, putting a small basin of fresh water outside your home will be greatly
The presence of a bee generally scares people. So they swat at it, which makes the bee angry and defensive, which causes the bee to sting. Once the bee stings someone, it dies. Most people might think their death is a good thing. Unfortunately, various species of bees have been added to the endangered species list (Kennedy). Bees pollinate about 70% of the crops used by 90% of the world (What Would Happen) and as of February 2017, 10 million bees have died since 2010 ( Bennett). Bees need to be saved to ensure the Earth’s survival, along with our own.
We listed a few of the global efforts taking place to save bees, but there is plenty that you can do to
The book by the name of The Secret Life of Bees written by Sue Monk Kidd is about a white girl named Lily Owens who goes on a journey to find more about her dead mother who passed away when she was young. She finds herself in the Boatwright’s house (home of the honey makers) that is strictly for African-American women because she believes that her mother spent much of her life there. Lily finds herself dealing with frequent racial issues as the story takes place in Southern Carolina during the Civil Rights Movement. By the end of this book, I can say that I enjoyed the novel because of the themes the author includes. First off, it shows the progression in Lily’s ignorance in terms of being more educated. In the beginning of the book, she thinks
Bees are r-selected species, which means that they have a short life span, so it would not be essential to spend money and time trying to eliminate them when we can just continue to evade them.
According to National Public Radio (NPR) News a type of bees called the Bumble Bees were put on the endangered species list this year. Picture a house, with a bee hive near the door. Now think if the homeowners are allergic to bees. The homeowners would destroy the bees’ habitat to remove it. Even though bees can hurt people, there should be more regulations to protect the bees because of habitat loss and climate change that are drastically decreasing their numbers.
According to the research, both situations are extremely dangerous, however having a face full of thousands of bees seems to be the best option, instead of killing three wild rattlesnakes with only a bowling ball. When in a situation of being stung by a bee according to Government Executive's article “CDC: Bees are the Deadliest Non-Human Animals in America” it says that when bees stings are deadly it’s generally not the toxicity of bee venom itself but an allergy developed as a result of prior stings. This means that when a person is stung by a bee and they have been stung prior to this situation it is much more deadly. Thus having a history of bee stings would severely affect what would happen if stung by a bee. However according to the
Earth has about 20,000 different species of bees, which are wonderful insects that have impacted Earth in many ways for at least 100 million years. The following few paragraphs will include information on what bees do to help the Earth, life in the hive, and their deaths. Paragraph one will include information on what bees do to help the Earth. Paragraph two will include information on how bees live their lives. Paragraph three will include information on death and extinction of bees.
Bees are one of nature’s biggest celebrities. They have been on the cover of Time magazine, written about in The New York Times, and featured in multiple documentaries with various celebrities. And there is good reason for it. Bees are responsible for the pollination of the majority of foods, including almonds, blueberries, avocados, and watermelons, as well as the pollination of many flowering landscape plants. Bees are a keystone species, and we need to rehabilitate their populations or face a serious change in the composition of our landscape and meals…which is not something I take lightly. Take away blueberries and avocados and I would have an anxiety attack. But my work is about much more than just saving the bees. It’s about biological
Scientists and Beekeepers Can Make Killer Bees Less Aggressive People discovered honey since an ancient time and considering it as liquid gold. There are many kinds of bees that produce honey, and it differs from place to place. One remarkable species is African honeybee which well known for its ability to produce more honey than other species and survive in hot climate (Anne, 2006). Evans and Butler(2010) have acknowledged that some species of honey bees are known as Killer bees or Africanized bees, which are currently living in some parts of South America and North America, and they started to move northward in the United States.
America’s bees are slowly beginning to suffer. The number of hives had been at 6 million during World War 2, and then decreased to 2.6 million in 2006, then fell below 2 million for the first time in memory (Jacobsen). From the very start honey bees have been an important factor in our agriculture. They serve as a nutrition source for flowers in order for the flowers to grow and make the crops that are needed. Honey bees had originally originated in Africa and when they came into higher northern latitudes they became to evolve into large colony sizes and build up excessive stores of honey to survive the cold winter (Kritsky). When Spring comes and bees begin to pollinate flowers, people tend to get in the way of the process so as a result bees will hurt the human. However, not all bees can sting. Female worker bees are the main ones that sting others (Kritsky). They serve as a line of defense so therefore will act as nature has taught them. For example, when my brother was younger, he went out into the backyard to search for some frogs since it had just rained the night before. While in the searching process he went under our deck that we had and started scrounging around for them. After awhile we suddenly hear a loud high pitched noise and it’s him running and crying from the bees that had just stung him. There were a bundle of flowers under the deck and he must have not realized that they were there considering his main focus was to capture the frogs.
Are bees really that important? A world without bees means a world without vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds (What Our World Would Look Like Without Honeybees). Nearly one half of the produce consumers have available to them today could not be grown without bees (What Our World Would Look Like Without Honeybees). Bees play an extremely vital role in pollination and in people’s everyday lives in ways that individuals often overlook. However, pesticides are killing off bees by the thousands (List of Foods We Will Lose if We Don't Save the Bees). Without honey that is produced by bees, consumers wouldn’t have nearly as many modern medications.
Bees, commonly referred to as a nuisance, actually play an important role in the world, “ bees may seem like just another bottom of a food chain useless Anthophila on planet Earth, but they play a vital part in the food system that keeps us alive. Honey Bees are natural pollinators, and pollinate 30% of our crops. Unfortunately Bees are dying off in Large colonies at a time,This is called Bee Colony collapse disorder (CCD).Many studies relate this disorder to the use of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides. Monsanto, being the largest producer of genetically engineered (GE) seeds on the planet; also create chemicals to preserve crops at the agricultural level. Monsanto’s is greatly affecting our agriculture in two different ways.
Agricultural Scientist Kathy Cummings says in her article “Insects in the City”, “Many people are already doing things to help without even knowing!” A few of her examples included but were not limited to, Placing a small basin of water near gardens will help keep the bees hydrated which helps them make honey and support the babies of the hive. Planting bee-friendly flowers like geraniums, wallflowers, honeysuckles, and holly in your garden will help them with pollination. Avoiding pesticides on flowers will keep the bees healthy by keeping the pollen that they carry harmless, and buying local organic honey can all help the Earth’s buzzing buddies live a long, happy life by supporting bee-safe honey farms and local beekeepers.
It was a very sunny day in New Jersey. Felicia McQueen - a bee - was at work stirring the pot of honey and was thinking of random thoughts about the human world.
Honey bees, feared by the misinformed and admired by the intelligent, are dying. The interest in bees from many environmentalists is not for a sudden cause, as this issue is not new to the world. Honey bees as a population have been in decline for years but have yet to reach the endangered species list anywhere in the United States except for Hawaii. Many people kill bees that buzz around joyfully, simply because they are afraid of being stung by them; however, a vast majority of bees do not sting and the others do not care. This unfortunate commonality is not even one of the top causes of the worldwide epidemic of honey bees. Although bees are jokingly idolized on the internet in pictures and videos as a result of a popular children’s movie, their population decline is in fact quite serious. Honey bees and other pollinators like birds and insects ensure the pollination of flowering plants and crops all around the globe. Not only do honey bees pollinate plants that produce the foods that humans eat, but they also pollinate trees that produce clean oxygen for Earth. Without honey bees, the world as we know it could soon end, due to carbon dioxide pollution and lack of farmable foods. The population of honeybees and other important pollinator-bee species is dwindling due to a dilemma known to scientists as colony collapse disorder (CCD) because of the use of bee-killing pesticides, known as neonicotinoids, the decrease of flower meadows in the world, and the general increase