Have you ever been outside on a beautiful warm day? You are enjoying the sun, the birds… When suddenly the peaceful aura is punctuated by a jarring and unwelcome distinctive buzzing sound like a thundering sky getting closer and closer. You flail around, or maybe try to kill it. I am sure most of us have experienced this situation before with - you guessed it - Bees.
Dear fellow students, and teacher, today I will talk to you about the importance of bees. Imagine a world without bees. They may seem irrelevant, however if that was the case, over 90% of our fresh foods would be gone. Over ⅓ of the world’s population is dependant on bees. So what makes these bees so important? In order to survive, bees must gather pollen and nectar and bring it home to their colony. While they are moving from flower
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This all started when we changed our methods of farming. We started spraying various types of pesticides all over crops, using synthetic fertilizers, and removing small flowering plants. We started large farms for a single plant. The problem is that pesticides act like pollen and adhere to the bee. As a result, the bee larvae died or would take longer to develop. When bees are in contact with the toxic pesticides, they may also be intoxicated and not be able to find their way home. Who would have known that pesticides, created for better crops, would cause more harm than good? It is like a nefarious virus humans created that in fact is themselves and everything around them.
So, what can we do to help out? Everybody can help out, just by doing one simple thing. Get out and grow bee-friendly plants. You could decorate your yard with them, or even grow them in a pot. It doesn’t matter if you live on a private island or a rabbit hole. One person can not solve this problem, just like how one honeybee can not produce a whole jar of honey. There is always something we can
This project was chosen to investigate the decline of the honeybee and the impact on Australian agriculture. The honeybee decline is interconnected with environmental sustainability with key environmental challenges threatening the future of the honeybee and the industry of beekeeping. Some of these factors such as land degradation, limited water availability, loss of plant biodiversity, climate change, pests and pesticides loss of public lands such as National Parks, State forests and reserves, all impact on the sustainability and ecosystems which the honeybee depends and likewise, the ecosystems depend on the honeybee. With the disappearance of land to urbanisation and government restrictions on access to public lands some 70% of Australian
Living in the pink house with the Boatwrights provides Lily Owens, a fourteen year old girl from Sylvan, South Carolina, with an experience like no other. As the protagonist, she gets to become a master beekeeper from the teachings of August. In the novel, The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd inserts symbolism through bees by drawing connections between the jobs of the bees in the hive and the characters of the novel. There are also other symbols that help to make the story. The bees illustrate the journey of the characters to show that a broken person will sew up their cracks of despair, just as a bee in a hive can not work unless surrounded by the fellow bees.
In the novel, the conflict is caused because all the bees in the world die. If that were to happen, not only would a major pollinator disappear from the earth, thus destroying fauna throughout the world, but animals that rely on bees as part of the food chain would also suffer. In Stung, the absence of the bees leads to a pandemic, which scientists then try to solve with a vaccine. However, the vaccine turns children into beasts instead of curing them of the disease that threatens to engulf the entire human race. Finally, at the end of the book, a successful vaccine is discovered, allowing science to mitigate some of the damage it caused—but that does not change or excuse the fact that pesticides and vaccines nearly caused the extinction of humans as well as other
“Beekeepers across the United States lost 44 percent of their honey bee colonies during the year spanning from April 2015 to April 2016” (“Nation’s Beekeepers lost 44 percent of bees in 2015-2016”). Many famers today plant their cops in sections farther apart depending on the plant. When the bees go to collect nectar they cannot get as much food without getting tired. This has had an effect on bees because they die faster from having to fly so far. Many beekeepers think that this reason causes bees to fade away.
Throughout the duration of Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret LIfe of Bees, the characters of her novel undergo various difficulties. The novel revolves around Lily as she learns about her past and tries to discover more about her long-dead mother. Additionally, the novel features extensive character interaction as Lily and her companion Rosaleen take residence at a farm in Tiburon, South Carolina, and meet three sisters: May, June, and August.
To completely solve Bee Colony Collapse Disorder, we would have to solve all three of the main issues: parasites, stress caused by human activities, and pesticides. With all these issues that are causing Bee Colony Collapse Disorder, we cannot realistically solve all of them or at least not for a while. The first issue to tackle is the harmful pesticides. According to Lana Adams, “A pesticide is less harmful if it controls what we want to control and does not harm other creatures in the environment.” (Adams, 2010, paragraph 3) Simply banning the current harmful pesticides is not a solution.
Sue Monk Kidd has a way of providing literary devices through her novel. These literary devices help convey her story throughout the whole book, bringing the reader into the story. Her use of these compliment her novel The Secret Life of Bees and take on a message deeper than the simple words placed onto pages. Her novel contains all of the above literary devices, and even though they are not all used often, their purpose serves a great amount.
These of course are all small ways to help the overall problem, but in mass majority the problem can be easily fixed, getting your voice out there and projected at a federal level could save our bees and our beautiful prosperous springs, and summers. If the population is unwilling to contribute this way, even limiting water can help the eventual collapse of the bee species as a whole, “The yield of vegetables and fruits is very low because of inadequate moisture content in the soil. Changes such as heavy rainfall in unseasonable months and severe water shortages at regular intervals indicate climate change.” (Pramila); climate change is a big deal when it comes for the populations of bees, and limiting water usage or conserving water can help the situation as a whole. Becoming a beekeeper as a hobby would not only grow the populations of bees, but an individual can even relocate the hives in the nature and expand the amount of populations that could repopulate and grow the average of colonies as a whole, “Today, there are half as many beekeepers as there were two decades ago, and the remaining beekeepers are mostly large-scale pollination services with thousands of hives and millions of bees.
Bees are almost completely harmless. The solution to this thought that all bees can and will sting is simple: do not anger the bees and they will not hurt people. People owe a lot to the bees and they deserve to be cared for by the people. The bees help us pollinate and grow our crops, plants and gardens.
Based on a scientific analys , the very accelerated loss of species that we are experiencing could be up to 1,000 to 10,000 losses per year. these losses do not only include wild animals or mammals that are constantly haunted , but also small pollinators such as bees. the bee decline is a an issue that is currently affecting most of North America and many countries in Europe , but the number of bee colonies are increasing in China . But if this issue is not solve as soon as possible , and the decline increases it will eventually become a worldwide issue.
A more legislative route would be to help pass bills that limit the use of pesticides that kill or repel bees. This may worry some, but bees are crucial in crops growing because of their
EVIDENCE: 10 THINKING: 7 Picture this, you go into your beautiful house and see no fighting, it's clean, and its normal, must be heaven for you, right? Well that's all because you see everyone looking at a parakeet, and because of that parakeet, it’s heaven. What if you go to pavilions and you are about to leave, but then, your pet parakeet reminds you of something you need to get, won’t that be good, well it is, all because of a pet parakeet. I should have a pet parakeet because it's cheap, it can improve happiness, and they are easy to take care of. One reason I should have a parakeet is because they are cheap.
Due to pollution, air quality is already poor. The deficiency of all of these factors will inevitably affect humans negatively. In order to protect the pollinators, the environment, and mankind, we must reformulate pesticides or cease the use of them altogether. Dr. Fairbrother, a renowned scientist and former member of the Environmental Protection Agency, noted that commercial bee-keeping companies reported losses of up to ninety percent of their colonies in 2006 (719). Scientists are blaming the losses on Colony Collapse Disorder.
Bees are major factor in our environment. But recent studies show that we are to blame for the decline in the Bee populations. The main reasons are industrial agriculture (pesticides), mites and climate change. And we should care about them because they provide us with honey and beeswax, and provide a major ecosystem service in the form of pollination. Bees pollinate a lot of crops like apple, citrus, strawberry, blueberry, tomato, melon, oilseed rape, carrot, etc.
At this time, there is little to no evidence that these pesticides are increasing yields from plants they are applied to. However, there has been evidence of the pesticides killing bees or causing damage to their nervous systems, which impedes their ability to forage and fly. Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health preformed a study which found that 70% of pollen and honey collected from local bees contained at least trace amounts of neonicotinoids. Levels found from these samples were enough to cause detrimental health effects. In a separate study, they found that over half of plants at a major garden store contained neonicotinoids.