Summary : ' Bee Disappearance '

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.

Global Research of CA has found that just within the last five years, “30% of the national bee population has disappeared and nearly a third of all bee colonies in the U.S. have perished.” (Statistic, Global Research Of California)

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

Honeybees are very important to our food supply because they pollinate our plants and help them grow. Other than the sun and water bees bring to crop or plants a lot of the nutrition that the plant is going to need and so the plant is able to produce more. Without bees helping our food grow we would be very short on food supply.

There is no worse feeling than losing something important, and having no clue as to what has happened to it. This has occurred to many beekeepers around the country. They wake up overnight to find a large portion of their bees gone. Honeybee loss has been around for quite a while. Its reach extends as far as Europe and Asia. The amount of bees disappearing, gradually increased in number as the years went by. In fact, according to the ARS, 32% of honeybee colonies were lost in the winter of 2006 to 2007, and that is only a quarter of the year. If the rest of the year is taken into account the total loss is much greater. For example, in the year 2010-2011, 36.4% were lost, from the year 2011-2012, 28.9% were lost, in 2012-2013, 45%, and in 2013-2014, 34%(Kaplan). Although the percentage of loss is not consecutively increasing, and instead is creating almost a roller coaster of ups and downs, it is still a problem. In fact, the Bee Informed Partnership, a group of knowledgeable universities and research labs, reported that about 42.1% of honeybees, were

Honeybees are very important insects, they pollinate flowers and plants. If the bees died out we wouldn't have a lot of the food or plants we have today. Bees are mostly dying out due to the fact that a lot of people use chemicals to keep plants free of plants. We need bees or much more people would be left penniless and starving.

The honey bee is the substructure of the human population. It is imperative that the world knows about the decline of honey bees and work together to save the honey bee population. Nearly one-third of the world's crops are dependent on honeybees, but over the last decade the black and yellow insects have been dying at an unexpected rate in the United States. Pesticides, disease, poor weather, and the stress of being taken from one orchard to another to pollinate different crops all play a role in the decline of the honey bee. The honey bee as a species is not in danger of extinction, but a large portion of our food supply is, because the honey bee no longer has the ability to support the industry of commercial pollination. Without honey

All of society depends of the honey bee to fertilize and pollinate. Without bees pollinating the plants that produce food could not be fertilized. Crops and plants would suffer and stop bearing fruits and vegetables. For example; “watermelon, apples, pears, strawberries, almonds, corn, cucumbers and tomatoes” would stop being produced. These are very popular foods that are part of the average daily diet.

First, I’m going to answer how I think they help with agriculture. Bees first of all go around and collect pollen and when they are done they bring it to the hive and the process of honey begins in the hive, once the honeycombs are done producing honey, beekeepers will go to the nest and rub the honey off and depending on how much bees are in the nest will depend how much honey you get and be able to sell it at the end. Bees help with making honey, or anything with honey products in it basically. There may not be many products out there like cows have which is a big bundle of things, but bees are really important, because they give us our honey for multiply

Bees are very important to the process of growing food. Bees pollinate the flowers on the plants and without the bees we would have to pollinate the flowers on our own. If we had to manually pollinate the flowers that would make growing food a lot harder. We would not be able to grow as much food without bees than we do now with bees.

Bees are an essential part of our food supply. Most people think that bees only make honey for us to eat, but that is certainly not all they do. Bees pollinate flowers which allows fruits and vegetables to grow. Just imagine what our lives would be life would be like without fruits and vegetables. If the bees didn’t pollinate flowers, than grass wouldn’t grow either. This means that we would not have anything for our meat animals to eat. Without bees, we would not have honey, fruits,

⅓ of the food that we ingest on a daily basis depends on bees and other pollinators. Currently, more and more bees are dying. Whether

Bees are a critical species in today’s world to keep the homosapien population alive. Without bees the stability of many ecosystems are at risk, we must understand and protect the honeybee. As they pollinate around $40 billion in produce each year, there has been increased attention by the scientific community to aid in the large amount of population decline. Research has mainly focused primarily on honeybees, the most common pollinator in the U.S, but they are not the only ones at risk. Increased use of pesticides, global warming and climate change, two types of deadly mites are some of the many factors that lead to the increased decline in honeybee populations. The greatest modern scientist Albert Einstein once remarked, “Mankind will not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.” With such a remark, scientists, beekeepers and activists are doing all they can to save the bees.

Bees are dying off and there are many factors to why this disappearance is happening.

Honey bees are pollinators that play a crucial role in our agriculture industry. Many people do not realize how important a small insect can be. Bees pollinate many different crops from almonds to coffee and account for the pollination of $15 billion worth of crops in the United States per year. From April 2016 to April 2017 Beekeepers in the U.S. lost 33% of their honey bees (“U.S. Beekeepers” 2017). The continued loss of honey bees has been due to several factors such as habitat loss, disease, climate change, and in big part due to Neonicotinoid insecticide exposure. Having healthy bee populations is critical since they are responsible for one out of every three bites of food we eat. Not only are pollinators important for crops but they also have a role in native plant populations and guaranteeing seed creation. Although the statistics above are from the United States it is important to remember that insect pollinators are crucial to agriculture worldwide, and the main insect pollinators are bees (“Pollination” 2017).