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The Effect Of Pollination On Bees

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Bees preform about 80% of pollination worldwide and a single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Bees are responsible for pollinating most of humans foods, too. One third off all of our food depends on bees for pollination. Less bees means no almonds, less coffee, less alfalfa, and more expensive fruit and vegetable prices. Since the late 1990’s, the disappearance of bees has been widely observed. The reason bee colonies have been collapsing is due to air pollution, habitat destruction, global warming, pesticides, and more. Pesticides and habitat destruction are the most destructive and both are caused by the same thing: humans. Between 1947 and 2008, the U.S. National Agriculture Statistics reported a 60% decrease in the

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