Endangerment Of Bee Species

Many consequences of climate change affects the population of pollinators, including increase in average temperatures, change in the schema of atmospheric precipitation and appearing as a result of climate change unpredictable and violent weather events (Greenpeace International, 2015). These changes will affect particular individuals, and ultimately the entire community, which ultimately may result in increased rate of mortality of each species of pollinating insects (UNEP, 2010).

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

Since 2006, bee colony numbers have been declining at an alarming rate, about 30% per year. Scientist do not have a pin pointed reason this has been occurring, but it is likely due to a combination of poor nutrition, habitat loss, and pesticides. As the human population’s need for space and food has risen, bee population has decreased. It is imperative that we work to end this issue because without bees our food supply will collapse. Earlier in the month, The US Fish and Wildlife Service granted 7 species Hawaiian native yellow faced Bees endangered status.

The previous die-offs were again observed from 2006 onwards at a much larger scale. The alarming drop in the bee

The purpose of this report was to determine why bees are disappearing and the effect on the world if they disappeared, like pesticides and fungicides role in their disappearance, the role Colony Collapse Disorder has on their disappearance, the knock on effect on pollination, the knock on effect on crops, can anything take up their role, can humans take up their role and is life possible without bees. It was determined that a combination of pesticides and fungicides that contaminates the bees pollen leave the bees three time more likely to be infected by a parasite, allow not enough evidence is available some evidence shows that a combination of factors lead to CCD where the adult bees leave the hive, the queen, the baby bees and some worker bees this is not enough to support the hive in the long run so they die. Insects’ pollination accounts for one third of the human diet of which eighty percent is done by bees, so see a fifty percent decrease in pollination levels over twenty years could crop yields fall dramatically. Climate change which is thought to play a big role in when the bees immerge from hibernating through winter and loss of habitat also has an effect on how much the bees pollinate. One in every three mouth fulls of food of the average person is directly or indirectly linked to honey bee pollination, the effect of bees disappearing would cause plants that solely rely on bees to pollinate them to die out, out of one hundred crops which provides nighty

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

Bees are important pollinators of many plants in the ecosystem (2). Recently, the decline in the number of bees in North America and Europe has shifted the research focus of many ecologists towards pesticide use (2). The impacts of pesticides on bees and other pollinators can have a major influence on honey production and biodiversity.

The decline in a variety of bee populations on a global scale has been obvious since the 1990s and scientists have been struggling with what is actually causing this decline. Current studies show that the use of systemic pesticides, specifically neonicotinoids, has been causing the number of bees to decrease rapidly. There are currently seven different types of neonicotinoids used in the agricultural industry today including imidacloprid, clothianidin, acetamiprid, thiamethoxam, thiacloprid, dinotefuran, and nithiazine. Each of these neonicotinoids are currently being studied and the most commonly used neonicotinoid today is imidacloprid.

In the article “The Endangerment Of Bees And New Developments In Beekeeping: A Social Science Perspective Using The Example Of Germany” written by Stephan Lorenz, it’s said that the endangerment of bees is because of social causes. It gives two case studies that evaluate developments that are harmful or beneficial to bees, and study different methods of beekeeping and how it affects bees. Lorenz states that the endangerment of bees could be because of the careless use of insecticides, which kill bees when they try to pollinate plant species (Lorenz).

The Apis Mellifera, or honey bee, have survived on this planet for fifty million years. This species of bee is responsible for pollinating flowers, grass, trees and crops around the world. Much of the food we eat is dependent on honey bees for pollination. Our ecosystem depends on the survival of the honey bee. Colonies of honeybees have been disappearing at an alarming rate around the world due to parasites, viral and bacterial diseases, and the introduction of pesticides and herbicides. Over the past six years, on average, 30 percent of all the honey bee colonies in the U.S. died off over the winter of 2012(NPR/TED). If this trend continues to spiral downward, honey bees will disappear from the world. We must understand the importance

One pesticide in particular, called neonicotinoid, a new class of insecticides chemically related to nicotine that is used on farmland, is known to have a negative impact on bees and is likely the main cause for CCD. Neonicotinoids were thought to have had a low toxicity level with a low rate of harm towards many insects, but research shows that it is toxic to bees even when exposed to a small amount; it targets their brains, affecting their ability to navigate to and from food sources and disrupting their ability to learn and memorize routes. This diminishes their potential and stops them from doing their job, or even killing them, which has undoubtedly already taken its toll on the bee

Pesticides are chemicals used to kill organisms that kills crops or reduce crop quality. While pesticides give farmers some level of peace of mind, they have negative effects on their surrounding ecosystems. Pesticides do not discriminate between organisms it kills, consequently, it harms organisms that are beneficial to the environment such as bees. An essential service that bees carry out is pollination. In its search for nectar bee inadvertently fertilize female plants and as a result bees contribute to the food supply. One can

The perceived threat of bee extinction, the surge in record-breaking natural disasters and the rapid automation of repetitive tasks are a few issues that will affect our economies in the next 5 to 15 years. According to Caughill (2017), for preservation purposes, the United States placed the rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) on the endangered species list on February 10, 2017, while Canada placed these species on its endangered species list in 2012. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first place seven bee species on the endangered species list October 2016. This designation aims to provide resources such as federal funds for the preservation and recovery of the species. Across the border in Canada, 2016 broke records

These substances are commonly used in commercial agriculture. But they cause a general decline in the quality of bees’ diets, and can have lethal effects on them. This problem is so severe that nations have begun planning strategies to improve bee diets and make them more resilient by restoring their pollinator-friendly habitat.

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