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What Role Should Bees Play In The Environment Essay

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Over the course of time, bees have been vital to the ecosystem as they continue to perform agricultural services for us. Humans and animals have benefited greatly from the role the bees play within the environment. For example, by pollination, they provide us food to consume; without the pollination to help the crops grow, crops would suffer tremendously. Not only do they provide us food, but their pollination saves the economy money unlike if humans were to pollinate by hand. However, hand pollination will be a consequence if bees were to go extinct, being disastrous to our economy. Another benefit of bees is helping the growth and fertilization of flowers. Although bees provide us with assistance, their population is decreasing at an alarming …show more content…

For example, one third of all of our food relies on their pollination (sos-bees.) They pollinate 70 of the world top 100 crops which accounts for 90% of the earth’s nutrition. Without their pollination 75% of all crops’ productivity would suffer an extreme decrease. Having crops decrease in large numbers would limit food supply and therefore cause an increase of prices for crops that relied on pollination to thrive. Fruits and vegetables such as apples, strawberries, tomatoes, and even almonds would suffer. Although we may not directly see their importance, bees pollinate the crops that are fed to livestock; what we depend on for meat. Therefore, not only would we have an increase of prices but we would be limited of meat, fruits, and vegetables too. However, besides providing food their pollination is needed for reproduction of wild plants. Around 90% of all wild plants rely on them to help reproduce. Pollination works by bees collecting nectar and pollen from a male reproductive organ; stamen, then visiting a female plant and applying the pollen onto the female reproductive organ; stigma. Once the pollen is rubbed off then fertilization of the plant is possible. However, without bees the reproduction of wild plants will start to decrease as well. Unless we provide solutions then we will be forced to pollinate by

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