Effects Of Bees On The Environment

Bees are disappearing because people are using harmful fertilizers. 25% of the managed bee population has dropped since 1990. The use of these harmful pesticides can cause a hive of bees to collapse. This is known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Global Research of CA has found that just within the last five years, “30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished.” (Statistic, Global Research Of California)

Bee decline is an increasing issue in the United states of America. An article written by the University of Vermont reveals a map of over 139 troubled zones for the population of bees and why they might be endangered. The University of Vermont is a well-respected establishment when it comes to research and Agriculture.

Many factors are causing this decline around the world. In order to fully grasp the honey bee decline is must be understood when this problem started and where it started. Throughout history there have been case of honey bee population decreasing. But most recently according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, an internet encyclopedia, “first reported in the fall of 2006 by a commercial beekeeper from Pennsylvania, U.S.” (Hood 2). This quote shows that the bee problem is happening again and is still going on from 2006, that’s 11 years the bee population is on the down hill.

According to the article, Honey Bee Heath and Colony Collapse Disorder, honey bees around the U.S are slowly and puzzlingly disappearing. This slow disappearance of the honey bee population is caused by a disorder known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD.) Colony Collapse Disorder causes adult honey bees to completely “vanish” leaving behind only the queen bee along with immature bees. Although this disease is receiving a lot of attention and research on CCD is taking place, the causes and treatments for Colony Collapse Disorder are still undefinable as well. Some may ask, “Who cares? Why is it important that bees are disappearing?” It is important because bees are the foundation to U.S agriculture and they are vital to worldwide economic stability which is why finding the cause and treatment for CCD is a top priority for scientists and researchers around the world.

Studies have shown that the percentage of the amount of bee deaths have majorly increased. During past years surveys were sent out to commercial and small-time bee farmers on their total annual loss of honey bee colonies. During the 2012 and 2013 time period the annual total loss of bee colonies was at a peak of 45% of all their colonies. The 2013 and 2014 time period dropped to 34%. Then the 2014 and 2015 time period took a 7% percent jump leaving it around 41%. The most recent and influential is the 2015 and 2016 time period, from the past year it took a 3.1% percent jump to 44.1%, and this is of 48 states. At this rate we could be losing tons of bees and that sweet honey. But why are these bees dying so quickly, some might blame it to the

From around the year 2006, many bee farmers in the U.S.A and some parts of Europe started reporting sharp declines in their bee stocks. The reason for this declining numbers was not known and therefore scientists named it colony collapse disorder (CCD). Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is a not a very old phenomena and it became popular when large number of bee colonies started disappearing. The disappearing was mysterious since no dead bees were found in or around the beehives after a colony’s number was reported to have gone down or vanished. This prompted a lot of study and investigations to uncover the mystery and to establish possible remedies. Among the many reasons for the causes of the CCD

All over the world bees have slowly begun to die out. Specifically, honey bees have begun

The bees are dying because of humans. Global warming, habitat destruction, pesticides, and air pollution are just some of the ways that humans are actively destroying the global bee population. The insecticide neonicotinoids are the most widely used, and also one of the most hurtful. Neonicotinoids can affect the bees’ ability to navigate back to their hive, and also can lead to a decline in queen bees. The insecticides weaken the bees’ immune system which allows them to be much more susceptible to getting sick, and dying. However, honey colony collapse Disorder is not exclusively caused by neonicotinoids, viral pathogens and parasite mites are also fatal to the bee population. “Wild bee habitat shrinks every year as industrial agribusiness

Honeybees are a massive part of most of the world's agricultural. Many plants rely on the honeybee to pollinate and allow the continued growth of their species. Many crops also rely on these insects. Honeybees pollinate three quarters of our major food crops. What would happen if most of the bee population disappeared? Would the human race die out? Would have to find alternative methods of pollination? How would this affect the rest of the environment? Many of these questions would be erased if there was a major change in the way people treat bees. The decline of the honeybee population will become a major threat to the US, unless the population initiates a major change in the beekeeping industry.

What are the causes in the decline of HoneyBee populations, and their colonies? Bee extinction, it’s only the bee-ginning. We swat at them, we spray them, we kill them. Has anyone ever thought of the importance of the honeybees people are trying to eliminate?

Scientists have done bee autopsies and developed numerous theories why the bee population is diminishing. The cell phone theory was the first to be tested. Another theory is that Varro mites have attacked the bees again like in the 1980s, Pesticides is another theory. Another possibility

As the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck 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.’’ The abovementioned quote that was used by the famous astrophysicist Albert Einstein many years later proves that the importance of honeybees in our ecosystems is a known fact since the beginning of the 20th Century. It has been 15 years that the worldwide bee population’s decline, the colony collapse disorder (CCD), is at an alarming rate, which concerns the whole scientific domain. Many companies, environmentalist groups and

A recent study by a UN body, says that wild bees, butterflies, and other pollinators have been declining rapidly. Northwest Europe and North America are seeing the biggest decrease of bees, and it's not just a stroke of bad luck. High levels of pollution, pathogens, invasive species and climate change are common in Europe and America. It's murdering bees at a rapid rate.

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