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The Pros And Cons Of Bees

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Over one third of our food supply depends on bees pollinating. What that means is if bees aren’t around to pollinate our food than we won’t have the everyday food we eat, like blueberries and apples. Bees aren’t only essential in the pollination of around 250,000 plants, but In 2015-2016 44.1% was the annual loss of bees in US managed bee colonies surpassing the acceptable amount by 27% (Bee Informed). Worker bees are more than just workers for their hive, they are also workers for us $15 billion was contributed to the nation 's economy by these bees ( Bee Informed). You wouldn’t want to have around 1-2 thirds of our food that requires pollination to disappear, would you?

To help prevent the outcome of no bees you can plant a garden in your yard or have plants, hanging from your balcony bees will love your new addition of plants to your home. Some plants prove to be great for bees, for example, rosemary, lavender, lilac, sage, and poppies among many other plants. There are plenty of choices ranging from small and large for you to choose from to suit your living situation! (BBA) It is also important to make sure you are practicing safe and organic gardening for your bees. If you struggle because of weeds make sure you are using certified organic weed killers rather than harmful pesticides. Pesticides and insecticides are …show more content…

Organic farmers don’t use the harmful pesticides which are the main cause of the loss of bees. If you buy their produce they will be able to keep doing it which allows for them to be able to provide a better environment for the bees that then helps them be able to produce the crops! You can go to local farmers markets and to talk to the farmers about how they grow their produce and you could even ask them how what they do supports biodiversity and bees. You can also use this as a goal for yourself to eat healthier and more

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Many people think bees live a vague life compared to humans. However, Albert Einstein once said “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” This quote illustrates how bees and humans live a similar life, each having their own set of tasks to accomplish. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd uses bees as a metaphor for Lily’s life.

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Life is filled with challenges and conflict. However only a few can overcome and escape the confinements of their problems, others remain left behind to struggle. Sue Monk Kidd displays this with the imprisonment that Lily deals with throughout the book. While Lily does finds liberation at the end, she first had to break free from the imprisonments of her secrets, T-Ray, and the torment from killing her mother.

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The Secret Life of Bees was written by Sue Monk Kidd. It's an emotional story about a little girl in search of her mothers past, but along the way she discovers herself and who she really is. It's based in 1964 in South Carolina. A little girl named Lilly runs away from her abusive father to follow her mothers footsteps in order to discover her past. After escaping from her father, Lilly and Rosaleen(Lilly's nanny) came across a general store.

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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.

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Warmth. Bees cannot take off for flight unless their flight muscles are at least 30℃, yet the ambient temperature is often low as 10℃. While flying the movement of the wings and the energy they use up while flying is enough to keep the flight muscles warm enough to continue flight, however when the bee is stationary its hemolymph is the same temperature as ambient temperature, resulting in d the bee not being able to take off and sustain flight. This is a problem because in colder weather bees need to be foraging for more food to provide the hive with, if they bee cannot activate its flight muscles to take off, it can't forage. To combat this bees will ‘shiver’, they will vibrate their flight muscles without actually moving their wings, this

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