Informative Speech: A Spring Without Bees

If you didn’t know, honeybees are dying rapidly, and it is more serious than you might think. The decline of the honeybee is fairly complicated, as we cannot simply target one cause for the honeybee’s decreasing numbers. The combination of factors includes parasitic mites, Colony Collapse Disorder, harmful pesticides, poor nutrition, and habitat loss, all of which have contributed to the loss of droves of honeybees. This issue much more important than what the attention it is getting implies, as honeybees are an essential part to the agricultural society, and the human race in general. Not only are bees responsible for making honey, but also for pollinating a large portion of crops grown around the world. If we did allow honeybees to disappear,

Pollination, produce, honey, bee´s wax, life wouldn't be the same without some of the few products bees create and work their whole lives doing. Bees are dying off, over the past few years the bee population has decreased which means some of our very beloved products have either increased in price or may be hard to find. We as humans that have so much control over this planet should help the bees so they can help us. Honeybees are an essential part of humanity.

Each year since 2006, bees have gradually been disappearing from their hives or dying off. Bees have died off before in the past. This is called colony collapse disorder or CCD. In the past CCD was cause by mites or infections, but now this is caused because of the commercial agricultural farmers. Bees play a key part in pollination. When the crops are pollinated by the bees, they are capable of producing the fruits or vegetables the human population eats. Farmers primarily depend upon the bees to pollinate their crops. The honeybees were the most adaptable bees out

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.

Concern in relation to global bee populations has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. The primary cause of this has been a large scale population decline of both wild and domestic varieties, this can be seen within the US (Fig.1) as honey bee population experienced a 59% reduction in colonies between 1945 and 2008 (van Englesdorp et al. 2008). These findings have been supported elsewhere with experts observing similar changes in the UK with 3 of 25 bumblebee species native to the UK having become extinct since 1950 (Goulson et al. 2008). The significance of these findings are great; partly due to the importance of bees in areas such as pollination and honey production, as well as other implications of the data such as ethical issues.

The impact of bees disappearing on the environment is not having enough food. Bees and other pollinators have a role in pollinating one out of every three bites of food you eat. Without bees to spread seeds, many plants, including food crops, would die off.

Agricultural effects seem very obvious, but there could be medical and economic effects as well. Believe it or not, the majority of medical prescriptions out there come from some form of plant. Not only would medical ingredients be limited, however slightly, but the economy could be affected greatly as well. Honey Bees alone are responsible for at least $30 billion a year in crops. A loss of this huge sum could seriously affect long term agricultural trade with other nations around the globe. Not only would the loss of bees affected the plants, but the animals, and then us, our medicines, and our

Bees are the reason we have jelly, fruit, nuts, coffee and so many other vegetation (Lecture 09/27). Without these creatures we would lose so much more of our biodiversity, which is already suffering from other anthropogenic actions. Our society has a habit of finding the most cost efficient methods to produce goods that please the consumers without considering all the consequences of these actions. More importantly, we do not recognize the harm that we have caused until the damage is outrageous and requires a solution. But, this problem cannot follow those footsteps because it is essential for our ecosystem to thrive. These solution would not only save millions of dollars by being proactive, but would allow us to sustain food sources, biodiversity, and the survival of

135 million years ago, vegetation relied on the wind to carry out pollen in the remote hopes that a meager portion would settle on a female flower (Goulson). An inefficient and hasty system, it has been grown out of, as the phenomenon of evolution produced an improved response in the form of the bee, a humble, hard-working insect. For a creature most humans prefer to avoid, the bee plays a crucial role in the way society functions and survives. Pollination, a valuable service, is jeopardized at the hands of humans. This is a case seen in the correlation between the use of pesticides, applying destructive methods of industrial agriculture, and climate change. As the biologist E.O. Wilson once observed, “If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos”

According to The Silence of the Bees, almost everything humans consume can be traced back to bees--the amazing little creatures pollinate about one-third of all the United States crops. Everything we eat comes from plants in some way or another, and plants cannot be pollinated without the help of bees. What would happen if all the bees just vanished? Since Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), an epidemic in which worker bees disappear from their hives for seemingly no reason (Stankus, 2014) has come into existence, the bee’s disappearance seems to be becoming a dangerous reality.

There are about 4000 different species of bees in the USA but I’m going to focus on the honey bee because it is the bee in the news (USDA).

Albert Einstein 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” (“Einstein Once Said…”). After careful thought on this matter, this can be a scary concept to process. Millions of years have passed with the honey bee gracing the earth, and in fact, the honeybee is the only insect that aids in the production of food that is consumed by the human race (“20 Amazing Honey Bee Facts!”). Imagine going to a grocery store and there being no almonds to buy, a scarce supply of apples to choose from, and a very limited

With this question, I will discuss why the bees are important for humanity. Furthermore, I want to illustrate a life without the bee and what are the reasons why bees are dying so quickly. In connection with the bees, one sees much curiosities in the world; the shortage of bees in America has made some of their own benefit and a new branch of the economy has been created - the "moving beekeeping". Bee-peas are transported on trucks to various fields and plantations all over the country. From one farmer to the next the bees are brought to pollute all sorts of plants. For the small livestock are the great hardships, but the "moving beekeeping" deserves good money. It is even more dramatic

Insect pollinators play a vital role in the majority of terrestrial ecosystems and the survival and productivity of many wild and agricultural plants depends upon successful pollination by insects [1,2]. In a 2005 assessment of the potential impact of pollinator decline, it was estimated that the total economic value of insect pollination worldwide amounted to €153 billion annually, representing 9.5% of the total value of world agricultural production of human food in that year [3]. The European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the world’s most economically

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