Extermination Of Bees: A Case Study

Criticism regarding the extermination of a massive swarm of honeybees, whose substantially weighted hive fell from the tree that it was attached to in downtown Edmonton, has become prominent within the community. Ordinarily, when pollinating insects cause a disturbance, they are removed from the area via calibrated vacuum and released elsewhere. This removal, as opposed to decimation, is customary because of the integral role these insects play in ensuring that plant foods reach maturity and maintaining a functional ecosystem. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that up to “US$577 billion worth of annual global food production relies on direct contributions by pollinators,” and therefore, multitudinous city

Since the late 1990s, beekeepers around the world have observed the mysterious and sudden disappearance of bees, and report unusually high rates of decline in honeybee colonies. Bees do more than just make honey! Bee transfer pollen and seeds from one flower to another, fertilizing the plant so it can grow and produce food. Cross-pollination helps at least 30 percent of the world's crops and 90% affects our food. The sweet fruits humans eat such as, strawberries, mangoes, grapes, apples, and bananas would not be the same taste wise as they are now. We simply couldn’t live in the same world if it weren’t for the bees.

One day, Lily and her younger sister Milly went to the carnival and on the way they passed by the zoo. This reminded Lily about how much Milly loved penguins.

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.

Riverside Bee Removal Pros is a pest control service company that is located in Temecula, California. This pest control service company is serving the entire Southern, California area, including the cities of Riverside, Murrieta, Chino Hills, Ontario, Corona and Temecula. Riverside Bee Removal Pros specializes in getting rid of the bees. Their services include live bee removal, bee proofing services, and bee removal repairs. Riverside Bee Removal Pros holds more than 12 years of professional bee removal experience. Riverside Bee Removal also possesses over 18 years of construction repair experience. They have cut the roof to remove the live bees, have roof repaired and waterproofed, and shingles replaced, just like new. Riverside Bee Removal

The article “Hivey Leaguers” discusses problems affecting the bee population in the United States ranging from chemicals and insecticides to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Colony Collapse Disorder occurs when the worker bees disappear from the hives, leaving behind the queen and the nurses to take care of the immature bees. This newly discovered threat to bee populations caused widespread panic in the entomologist community and lead to a race to find the cause, and the relative cure. Though this new disorder was a danger, the real bane of the bees was a much more sinister, and domestic, threat.

It was a normal, peaceful Wednesday morning in Tuscon, Arizona. Four landscapers were called to tend to a yard for a ninety-year-old man. One of them turned on his lawnmower. Almost immediately, the vibration of its engine had disturbed an enormous hive of approximately 800,000 Africanized bees nearby. The noises appeared to be a threat to the colony. As a result, thousands of them swarmed the men, injected their venom, and clogged their orifices up, such as their ears and nostrils. There were so many bees that one of the first responders had described the sky getting dark from the flock, although it was sunny out. From this attack, one man died and another received one hundred stings. This one of the many examples

Bees pollinating crops produce every third mouthful of food we eat. Bees contribute to thirty- five Percent of global food production, 87 of the leading 115 food crops are dependent on animal pollinators, including bees. (The United States White House, 2014). Without bees pollinating plants, there would not be very many fruits or vegetables to eat, Bees transfer pollen between the male and female parts, allowing plants to grow seeds and fruit. In the last decade scientist and beekeepers have observed remarkable decline of bees, in the US alone 30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have

Thesis: Without a change in policy and practice, honeybees may disappear, causing humans a dilemma that is much bigger than many understand.

Bee populations are declining at an alarming rate all around the world, and daily life without bees would be detrimental. Without the bees around to help pollinate our food, 30 percent of which is grown using bees, there is an incredibly high chance that we would starve. “Mankind will not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.” (Albert Einstein) By using harmful pesticides in our agriculture, and the excessive use of high fructose corn syrup, we are killing the bees at an alarming rate. One of every three bites of food rely on pollination for a profitable harvest. We must acknowledge everything that the bees provide for humans, then ban pesticides that hard bees, move away from industrial agriculture and put our focus

Seven years ago honeybee colonies were reported to be dying en masse. They were dying from multiple causes, and these bee disappearances reflect an infertile landscape and a dysfunctional food system. The problem is that in the last 50 years bees have been dying and we’re planting more crops that require bees pollination. Colony Collapse Disorder, Varroa mites, and our farming practices attribute to these disappearances of our most important pollinator, bees.

100,1000 ‘Killer bees’ attack bees Florida Park rangers. Christian Science Monitor. Delapane, K., & Mayer, D. F. (2000). Crop Pollination by bees. Cambridge, Mai: CABI.

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

A juicy apple. Pumpkin pie. Crisp almonds. Tangy oranges and grapefruit. None of these foods would survive without the hard work of honeybees. Unfortunately, in the last two years, United States beekeepers reported a loss of over 44% of honeybee colonies. Similarly, Europe has experienced a 25% loss and the United Kingdom has experienced a 45% loss. These numbers are staggering. What is causing this sharp decrease in the honey bee population? What are the long term impacts of a declining honey bee population? These questions must be explored because, like Albert Camus’ absurd hero, Sisyphus, and J. Howard Miller’s iconic hero, Rosie the Riveter, honeybees are vigilant in their tiring, though inspired, efforts toward a particular goal—in this

In October 2006, U.S. beekeeper David Hackenberg discovered that about 400 of his bees out of his 3,000 hives had completely disappeared. No bees were found dead inside or outside of their hives, they had just simply disappeared. Now this disappearance was not due to some funny magic trick, but still the questions remained, where did the bees go and what happened to them that caused them to leave? Over the last decade “this sudden diminution of bee colonies has been brought to the forefront of people’s minds and surpassed the realm of beekeepers, academia, industry and regulatory agencies and now encompasses non-governmental agencies, media, fiction writers, and the general public” (Barbosa 1049). This however, does not answer the ongoing question