Honey Bees Impact On Non-American Culture

Field bees have great navigational skills tireless hearts. They go out to the fields everyday and gather the nectar and pollen from all the flowers and return it to

The honey bee population is going down, and while most people think it doesn't really matter or just don’t notice it, they should because it is a very big problem. I think the other people should try and change that. If bees die then it will not be good, at all. In this persuasive piece of writing, I will be trying to make people rethink about the bee population, and what it could potentially do to the human race.

Volk is a writer for Discover magazine and he follows around Darren Cox who is a 50 year old beekeeper who tries to make a change. The biggest question they are trying to answer is what is killing the bees, and how can it be stopped? Cox’s bees do not produce the amount of honey they used to and he would like to see an answer. Another point they consider is that the bees are not only dying, but they are weakening. He believes that the quality of work that bees put out is diminishing, which is then leading to the decrease in the quality of the honey in recent years. Volk’s article helps display how losing bees will impact us significantly. As far as solving the bee problem it is not what I was looking for but, I will use it as an example of what needs to change.

The article “Hivey Leaguers” discusses problems affecting the bee population in the United States ranging from chemicals and insecticides to Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Colony Collapse Disorder occurs when the worker bees disappear from the hives, leaving behind the queen and the nurses to take care of the immature bees. This newly discovered threat to bee populations caused widespread panic in the entomologist community and lead to a race to find the cause, and the relative cure. Though this new disorder was a danger, the real bane of the bees was a much more sinister, and domestic, threat.

Sue Monk Kidd has carefully crafted a book rich in symbolism with special emphasis on bees. Each section’s heading features the inner workings of this communal society (Emanuel, Catherine, B. 3). An epigraph at the beginning relating to bees sets the tone for the each chapter. The first chapter epigraph states: The Queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.” Man and Insects.

The article begins with the statement of how falling population in bees will lead to a decline is crop production for the united states of America. This statement was announced at the American Association for the Advancement of Science or for short the AAAS. The United States relies on these bees for pollination as it is a big part of the economy bringing in over 3 billion dollars annually. It is mention how it is possible to reverse the decline in wild bees by habitat restoration. Bees are a huge part of the crop production in the united states which helps with the income and rotation of crops. In the article maps of troubled zones where placed in over 139 counties in agricultural regions of California, Pacific Northwest, the upper Midwest and Great Plains, West Texas, and Mississippi River Valley. All those places are known for their specialty crops such as almonds blueberries and apples. Those specialty crops

During the past decade the presence of bee diseases, droughts and other variable weather conditions has reduced the supply of bees worldwide. In the United States for example, the past few years have seen bush-fires, droughts, the killer mite (Varroa destructor) and the Colony Collapse Disorder wreck havoc with U.S. honey crops by destroying nearly two-thirds of their colonies. This has lead to a market opportunity for other countries to sell their honey to the U.S., which happens to be the largest consumer (and 3rd largest importer) of honey worldwide.

The honey bee is vital to an estimated $117 billion annual production of crops through pollination within the United States more than a half of the food that humans consume has a correlation with the bee either directly or indirectly. The USDA reports the following food products would be immediately damaged if no bees were available to pollinate:

Honey bees are pollinators, meaning transfer the pollen and seeds from one plant to the next so it can fertilize and grown into the crops eaten today. These pollinators help

Above all the aforementioned services of the bees, the fact that bees create the global wealth is possibly the least thing that one can expect. Yet, it is irrefutable that their products have been among the best-selling over a sustained period of time. A decade ago witnessed their notable contribution when providing a myriad of products such as beeswax, pollen, candles, propolis (or bee glue, used in cosmetics). As a salient example, the United States’ exportation of bee honey brought in more than $7,000,000 worth of revenue for the nation’s financial system. In addition, the country also financially benefited from several pollinated crops by bees in billions of dollars. As for the United Kingdom, the value, as estimated by the National Audit Office in 2007, was in the proximity of incredible £1 billion.

A bee is an insect that lives in every part of the world except the North and South Poles. Bees are one of the most useful of all insects. There are 20,000 species of bees in the world (154, B: Bees). Bees get their food from flowers through pollen and nectar. They collect tiny grains of pollen and nectar from flower blossoms. Sticky nectar gets attached to the tiny hairs that cover their bodies and is distributed when bees travel from flower collecting nectar (201, B: Bees). Bees make their honey from nectar and use both honey and pollen as food. When bees are collecting nectar for food, they spread pollen from flower to flower. The process of pollination allows plants to reproduce as well as feeds the bees. Bees have become completely dependent on flowers for food. Flowers, in turn, rely heavily on bees to

They have an impact to the environment, and us too. According to CNN, a leading news source, honey bees contribute,more than $15 billion in revenue(Pearson,CNN). $15 billion is a large sum, and with the death of more bees, the number might as well decline. In addition, they also pollinate flowers allowing for reproduction to occur. They pollinate crops as well, which in turn grows into the fruits and vegetables that we put in our supermarkets, and eventually our tables. In fact, according to the USDA Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, up to 130 fruits and vegetables are pollinated by bees (Death and Extinction). Furthermore, according to the Kathleen Merrigan, the previous Agriculture Deputy Secretary, the of health honey bees are correlated to the state of American Agriculture(USDA). With this information, it can be said that there is something wrong going

Most people don’t realize how important bees are to the world so I’m going to tell you guys a bit about bees.

Bees have existed for about 100 million years, and they have played an important role in the pollination of plants. A long time ago, pollination was crucial to the balance of the food chain. Without it there would have been no food for the herbivores and they would have become extinct; so no food for the meat eaters. They have been doing their job for millions of years, but recently scientists have observed problems within the colonies which could have negative effects with in our ecosystem.

Some facts about bees are that animal pollinated plants are responsible for 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. It is said that 75% of food is pollinated dependent. Which means almost every time you eat, you are eating food that is helped produced through the pollination of bees. Honey is a huge profit for North America of over 500 billion dollars every year and the honey industry produces 1.5 million tons of honey every year. Interesting enough honey bees are not