Pollinators

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,

There are several different species of insect pollinators, but the bees in general make up sixty-two percent of them. Honeybees make up thirty-nine percent of that number, and the other twenty-three is composed of several different species of bees. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, one-third of the homo-sapiens diet is insect pollinated and honeybees are accountable for eighty percent of the pollination of that one-third. The population of the honeybees in the United States has been

Why Regulations Are Needed to Protect Pollinator Populations Currently, an estimated 3.2 million tons of pesticides are used each year (Hicks, 2012). Pesticides are normally misused by people with little knowledge or care for their harmful effects. Without effective enforcement of regulations, pesticides are easily spread beyond their projected areas. According to research, the overuse of pesticides causes many human diseases, animal diseases, and disruptions in our ecosystem. Well defined regulations

lot of different types of pollinators. When most people think of a pollinator they think of a bee, but that is not the only type of pollinator. Pollinators consist of different types of insects, animals and even the wind can help pollinate. Insects and other pollinators are very important to the environment. Pollinators help with the reproduction of plants and the production of most fruits and vegetables. Pollinators play a big role in plant reproduction. The pollinators pollinate seventy-five percent

loss of commercial honey bees has went up by 40%. If we do not start preserving the lives of bees, it could mean not only losing them but also major loss of our own kind. 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

Plants and Pollinators To begin, let me ask you something, what would it feel like not to have flowers or colorful fruits surrounding you or if they were never there in the first place. Well we should thank our amazing pollinators as such as the bee, hummingbird, e.t.c. We sometimes don’t realize how important they are to us and that we take them for granted. Pollinators play a hard working role in the ecosystem and are extremely important. The reason they are such an important factor to this world

the Argentine Pampas” article to explain what is a pollinator and why should we care about the ultimate pollinator in the world: the honey bee. A pollinator is an animal that pollinates crops in a natural or man-made habitat, most flowering plant life is dependent on their ability to attract these pollinators. Without pollinators, there are many flowering species of plants that would not be able to populate at all. Honey bees are the best pollinator in the natural wild, due to their hive mechanics

At the beginning, studies about plant-pollinator interactions focused on one or a few plant species and their associated flower visitors (Sahley 1996; Wolfe and Sowell 2006). This first approach had obvious limitations, since local combinations of plant and pollinator assemblages were excluded. Alternatively, a whole-community perspective is important for understanding the role of pollinator sharing on the effectiveness of different floral traits as pollinator attractors, as well as for drawing valid

Hi Professor Dorsner I hope your week has been pleasant and stress free. Thank you for changing my marks in the discussion forum. However, after the change I realised my journal post may have come across as being arrogant and a bit of a whinge about only receiving a 9 when I deserved a 10. This was not the intent of my journal post. I only meant to highlight that I can be a bit highly strung sometimes and that I should appreciate a mark as high as 9 rather than being disappointed I did not

is known by scientists as Danaus plexippus, which in Greek literally means "sleepy transformation." The name evokes the species' ability to hibernate and metamorphize.(Schafer) Monarch butterflies are indicator species just like they are pollinators as well ,and their characteristics all serve different purposes to help them. For instance, their colorful wings consist of veins and muscles. These features help blood circulate through their tiny bodies and allow them to be able to do move. Their