Forest Conservation Research Paper

In “Why Bees Are Disappearing,” Marla Spivak, an American entomologist, sheds light on the importance of bees in the pollination process as well as the decline in bee population. Spivak claims that “bees are the most important pollinators” because over one third of crop production across the world depends on bee pollination. However, bee populations have decreased since the end of World War II due to “multiple, interacting causes of death.” These causes are monocultures, pesticides, diseases, and flowerless landscapes, and they all pose a threat to plant diversity and food production. In order to prevent significant consequences and reverse impacts already made, Spivak encourages the audience to plant bee-friendly flowers without pesticide contamination so that bees, and therefore people, have access to better nutrition.

Imagine you walk into your local bistro to order your favorite tea with honey and you were told there is no honey available. How would you feel? Would you want to become a beekeeper or have a bee garden? This is why ordinary people should take action to make sure that honey bees do not become extinct. More people need to care about this problem, and take action to prevent it from ever happening. By putting these plans into action we can keep the bee population growing and ensuring the local economy has a supply of honey. Ordinary people should become beekeepers or create bee gardens to save the bees and the local economy.

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

Bees are vital to farmers and ranchers because they’re necessary to keep their crops reproducing.

The Farm Bill is a multi-year law that governs a multitude of food and agricultural industries that gives lawmakers the ability to address current concerns in the food and agricultural industry. “Since the 1930s, farm bills traditionally have focused on farm commodity program support for a handful of staple commodities such as corn, soybeans, wheat, cotton, rice, dairy, and sugar. Yet farm bills have grown in breadth in recent decades” (Johnson & Monke, 2017). The law has been able to help farmers over the years with crop and livestock loss, insurance and subsidies.

The United Nations reports that approximately 70% of the world’s crops, valued at close to $US200 billion, are dependent on bee

The honeybees help the farmers with their crops by pollen them and the plants will not give

For the past three years, the Foundation has provided support to the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) for its public policy program. With Foundation support, OEFFA has worked diligently to define its policy agenda and create an online advocacy infrastructure for its work. Among the issues OEFFA has focused on is the reauthorization of the Federal Farm Bill, as Ohio has several key appointments on the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, and hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and its impacts on sustainable farming.

Bees are an incredibly important part of Agriculture. We often forgot that these bumbling little insects are vital to Agriculture and as result of this forgetfulness we do not protect them as we should. In the United States alone, insects pollinate an estimated $16 billion worth of crops every year and Honeybees do three-quarters of this work. (Weeks, Pesticide Controversies, 2015) In the United States, the number of managed bee colonies has steadily declined. Over the past 60 years, beehives have declined from 6 million colonies in 1947 to 4 million in 1970, 3 million in 1990, and just 2.5 million today. (Office of the Press Secretary, Fact Sheet: The Economic Challenge Posed by Declining Pollinator

Last year, from April 2015 to April 2016, 44% of bees and other helpful insects died. These insects have died due to people spraying pesticides and neonicotinoids on crops and buildings. We, Putnam County, as a farming community, are not different from any other places in the entire world, in the term of using pesticides. But, we can fix this problem by introducing insects that kill the insects that attack crops. This can stop farmers from attacking the insects we appreciate and benefit, such as bees.

Beginning in the 1930s, agricultural subsidy programs were established in the United States to address the issues of inelastic supply and demand of the agriculture market along with the nature of the industry that faces uncertain performance in terms of production and demand, which can vary greatly from year to year (Urry, 2015). Through several reiterations of government policy surrounding these subsidy payments, the majority of direct payments are now being received by large, for-profit farming companies (Urry, 2015), further incentivizing them to mass produce crops easily grown and

Abstract: This paper explores the roles of bees in their hives and dissecting their extremely sophisticated colonies, with a focus on how they pollinate and why pollination is detrimental to agriculture. In my research I discuss the causes of their declination, and what kind of preventative actions we can take as inhibitors and consumers to support them. This analysis draws upon primary and secondary sources including online journals.

A ubiquitous species found everywhere except Antarctica, honey bees serve a critical role in agriculture. A third of the world’s food supply is dependent on pollinators such as them (Healey). In the United States alone, an estimate of 2.4 million bee colonies, both native and managed colonies, pollinate crops (“The Importance of Pollinators”). However, in the 2015-2016 survey conducted by the Bee Informed Partnership, beekeepers across the nation lost 44.1 percent of their honey bee colonies, an increase of 3.5 percent over the previous study year (The Bee Informed Team). The decline is not a recent phenomenon; the number of colonies in the United States has fallen from six million in 1947 (Mathiesan and Goldenberg) to the 2.4 million today. Honey bee decline is due to a broad spectrum of causes, from human activities to diseases (“The Importance of Pollinators”), which have been widely studied by scientists to create conservation plans. Research and conservation efforts have been taken to help preserve the remaining honey bee populations in three particular areas: managing pesticide laws and regulations, providing adequate habitat, and conserving genetic diversity.

For years, people have found many ways to develop their farms.Fazrmers have developed them from little feilds that can barley grow to hundreds of acres of fresh and fast growing crops. They have slowly figured out better ways to plant, grow, and harvest their feilds over the centuries.

Honeybees play a crucial role in agriculture. That means the federal government, state governments, and local governments all have legitimate