How Can We Kill Bees Kill Endangered Animals?

This paper reviews the phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), or the disappearance of large swathes of the bee population in the US and elsewhere. It reviews the potential causes of CCD, including pathogens, pesticides, and other environmental factors that could contribute to bee deaths. Although many have linked the widespread use of pesticides to the phenomenon, there is no 'smoking gun' that is clearly implicated in causing CCD. The phenomenon can likely be attributed to a wide variety of factors, rather than a singular cause.

Scientists and researchers think that one of the causes that kill the honey bees is parasites. The parasites that are

Scientists performing ecotoxicological studies believe that over time the poisons from Neonicotinoids, cause paralysis in the worker bees and also effects future bee generations when the toxins are ingested. CCD is caused by Neonicotinoids bonding to the anatomy and central nervous system in the bees. This affects their navigation capabilities and also impairs their memory. When they are unable to work effective then things don’t get done. The neonicotinoids are also known to compromise the bees immune systems making them more susceptible to a virus

Recently I read an article in the Hill Country Observer titled “Hives of Controversy” by Tracy Frisch (http://www.hillcountryobserver.com/2015news/Sept2015bees1.htm). The article talks about colony collapse disorder and the causes. The tests that have been done and continue to proceed mention that the insecticide neonicotinoids can be a major cause for the loss of bees. As with most if not all chemical insecticides they don't readily break

Some causes of bee loss is pesticides, determining a specific role of pesticides in pollinators health is complicated. Pesticides play a small role in bee deaths. Pesticides weaken insects’ immune systems making the insect extremely weak. Most to all pesticides causes stress in bees. When bees are stressed the ability to sterilise

Neonicotinoid pesticides are a group of chemicals widely used on farm crops, plants, and trees (1). The concern behind these pesticides is the harmful impact on pollinating insects such as honey bees and bumble bees (1). Neonicotinoids are sprayed onto the plant where they are absorbed by the plant and are transported to all parts of the plant including the pollen (see figure 1) (1). Bees then ingest the pesticide via the pollen; specifically, this is the point where the central nervous system of the bees becomes compromised. A large number of deaths in bees is being used as an argument against the use of neonicotinoids (1).

Over the years, bees have received invasions from very dangerous parasites straight from a horror movie. For example Acarapis woodi are microscopic mites that infect the Trachea of bees by laying their eggs there, and feeding on their fluids weakening them considerably. The Varroa Destructor reproduces in honeybee hives, and are one of the bees greatest enemies. The female mites enter a hive cell, and lay eggs on the bee larva before the bees cover the cell in wax. When the

The effects of these pesticides are not killing the bees instantaneously but impairing their behavior and development. However, some pesticides are very lethal since the honey bees do not even go back to their hives and most of them die after ingesting small amounts of these chemicals from plants that have been sprayed with them. These pesticides clearly have a huge role to play in CCD, given that bee farmers in organic gardens have not reported this phenomenon. According to Timbrell (2002), the pesticides reduce the immunity of bees and are therefore susceptible to literally all kinds of pathogens. A dissection of the dead

Many experts believe that the main reason for bee death is due to the increased use of neonicotinoids. Neonicotinoids are a type of pesticide that are used against sap feeding insects and beetles. These pesticides are made so that they are chemically related to a drug for humans,

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.

These pesticides are dangerous to them as they lead to death, disorientation, and diminished immune systems. Obviously death for this underrated Meta species is a natural occurrence just like it is to many others, but too much of it can lead to unbalanced populations and colony declines as they will become less and less self-sustainable. This not only harms the bees themselves but cripples industries and other species that depend on bees in some way which is a lot. Disorientation leads to the bees getting lost and never returning to the colonies so they wander around mindlessly lost. This makes colonies decline. Diminished immune systems are also a problem as not only do they have to worry about what our “safe” chemicals do to them but they also have to face the microscopic threat of bacteria, viruses, amoebas, fungi, and parasites. This leads to even greater declines for colonies as the chemicals and lack of self-sustainability makes them incredibly prone to get these illnesses. With all these things working in conjunction against the bees the can very easily go extinct this century if nothing is

Fungi are pathogens considered to have a serious impact on honey bees health and mortality by causing diseases. Nosemosis is one of the most dangerous diseases affecting the adult honey bee by infecting epithelial cells coating the midgut. This disease is caused by Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae which are intracellular microsporidian parasites from genus of Nosema. Studies point out that transportation of honey bees, infected beekeeping materials, and practices of some beekeeping migration are factors of Nosema's distribution. In addition, it has been demonstrated that some vectors may carry Nosema spores. For example, it has been found that the regurgitated pellets of the migratory bee-eating bird Merops apiaster contained infective Nosema spores.

The first reason Why we should stop killing the bees is by no chemicals pesticides. For example,California has already lost 90% of its bee population. Some pesticides, including Neonicotinoids, are more toxic to bees and cause acute symptoms with lower doses compared to older classes of insecticides. The agriculture

Though the parasite is minimal and has not yet greatly affect farms, we still need to find out where the parasites came from and how to stop it from affecting the population of bees or other insects. In some cases the parasites can control the insect through mimicking the host hormones and affecting how the insect decides to operate it's daily life."..Anthony Cantrell...who took up beekeeping as a hobby less than a year ago, noticed some dead bees outside his home. Later, he came across ZomBeeWatch.org, a website run by Hafernik and his colleagues, and realized some of his bees might have become infested."Many People concerned about this have started to set up pages where scientist like Hafernik can track where the parasite infection is happening. Its not just the bees that are suffering this ants have also started to exhibit their zombie like

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