While often only appreciated for their honey, honeybees are responsible for pollinating about one-third of the food that the human population consumes. Bees provide us with fruits, berries, nuts, vegetables, coffee, and so much more. This is why the depletion of the bee population beginning in 2006 was, and as it continues, so concerning. The term “Colony Collapse Disorder” refers to a phenomenon in which worker bees vanish from the hive, leaving the queen and larvae unattended, and thus the bee colony ceases to function and collapses. This is happening throughout the United States at an alarming rate, and while one distinct cause for CCD has yet to be found, scientists have narrowed it down to a few possible reasons.
Honeybees are social insects that live in eusocial communities in which the bees partake in complex activities and live in well-organized groups. There are three types of bees that exist within the hive: the queen, the drone, and the worker. Each colony has one queen bee, whose primary function is reproduction. She also produces pheremones which represses the ovarian development in the worker bees which unifies the colony and maintains her position as queen, until a new one takes over. Drones are the male bees of the colony, and their sole purpose within the hive is for reproduction. Worker bees perform all of the duties to maintain the hive, including building cells, care for and feed the young, care for the queen, handle nectar to produce honey, and guard the
The public looked for a scapegoat and found it in the gay male contingent (Isay). What if a similar phenomenon happened, but in a keystone insect? Rowan Jacobsen, in Fruitless Fall, asserts that a comparable type of illness is affecting the honey bee, apis mellifera; the illness, now termed Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), seems transmissible and causes “extraordinarily high disease loads” (63-82). According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service (ARS), there is no effective treatment
In Chris Cleave’s Little Bee and Incendiary, the characters Little Bee and the unnamed narrator respectively, undergo a traumatic experience in the early stages of the books. Little Bee is confined in an immigration detention center upon her arrival in England for not having legal documents to prove her age. Meanwhile, the unnamed narrator has her life blown apart by a terrorist attack that kills her husband and four year old son. Both characters lose the hope and faith in their world and adjust
in the world’s population. Many viewpoints on this debate exist, and two views in particular contradict each other. These viewpoints include those of Garret Hardin and Julian L. Simon. Hardin’s view is expressed in “The Tragedy of the Commons,” and Simon’s in “More People, Greater Wealth, More Resources, Healthier Environment.” These debate problems and solutions of the growing population, including the use of natural resources in order to supply the world’s growing population.
Hardin perceives
Disorder (CCD): History and causes
Abstract
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
According to worldatlas.com (http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-environmental-impact-of-irrigation.html), irrigation can have several direct and indirect negative effects on the environment. Irrigation is the practice of redirecting water from one place to another, and is a common practice in horticulture, agriculture and other fields. While direct impacts of irrigation include increased groundwater and evaporation in the irrigated area, as well as decreased waterflow downstream from
Species extinction and habitat destruction have a negative impact on sustainable food systems, making this a very unspoken yet important issue. To have sustainable food systems we must change our ways of producing food for our dramatically growing population. This research paper will provide examples of extinct species, and habitats that have been demolished. I will be comparing and contrasting why they might be of importance, especially when relating to sustainable food systems. The relationship between
threatened, it means its population is declining compared to the previous time it was censured and an action should be taken before it disappears. The disappearance raises worries of extinction, therefore this crisis affects the entire food web.
The main causes of biodiversity crisis are:
Human-induced activities to the ecosystem
Since the agrarian revolution, humans have tried to change the environment for settlement and agriculture to sustain the increasing population. This was further enhanced
Ever since the discovery of DNA, farmers have selectively bred plants in order to bring out desirable traits such a large yield or longevity. As time passed on new discoveries were made about DNA and scientist eventually became able to directly insert genes into a plant cell, permanently changing the world of agriculture. Genetically modified agriculture, or transgenic crops, are crops that have had their DNA altered via genetic engineering. Transgenic crops are often the subject of skepticism from
Renewable Energy: Perspectives in Germany
Global climate changes and depletion of fossil energy resources on the planet forced the civilized world to pay more attention to the efficient use of traditional energy resources and increase the proportion of renewable ones. One can definitely say that Germany is the most progressive country in that sense. Constant growth in prices for gas and other energy sources, as well as Germany 's dependence on exporting countries, gave rise to a new round of debates
Anti GMO Essay
Over the past one hundred years or so, scientists have started experimenting with the genetic material of the fruits, vegetables and other such organisms that humans eat. These genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are made when, genes from one organism are moved into another to improve or change the characteristics of that organism. The issue on whether farmers and scientists should further experiment with the genetic modification of organisms is a worldwide discussion. Although