Honey bees and native bees are being threatened, which is not good considering they perform 80% of pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. 70 out of the top 100 human food crops- which supply about 90% of the world's nutrition, are pollinated by bees.
The world wide bee collapse is not as big as a mystery as the chemical industry says it is.
Scientists found that bees are dying from a variety of these factors- drought, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming, habitat destruction, pesticides, and more. The bottom line is that we know humans are responsible for the two most prominent ones: habitat destruction and pesticides.
Typically a bee hive or colony will decline by 5-10% over the winter, and replace those lost bees in the spring, in a bad year, the bee colony might lose 15-20% of its bees. In the U.S., winter losses have commonly met 40-50%, in some cases even more. In 2006, Daven Hackenberg- a bee keeper for 42 years- reported a 90% die-off among his 3,000 bee hives. U.S. Agricultural Statistics showed a honey bee decline from about 6 million hives in 1947 to 2.4 million in 2008, a 60% reduction. The bees cannot keep up with the winter die-offs and habitat loss.
We encourage people to not use pesticides and to plant pollinating flowers and plants!
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Be the Change You Wish to See In The World
RandomThis is basically a book of good advice of how to help out the piece of rock we call 'Earth' and how to help threatened species and animals in your environment. Because there are many ways to help out the environment! Be the change you wish to see i...
