Report: World bee decline signals ‘sixth major extinction’:
http://digitaljournal.com/article/304525
Picture: This picture shows graphs about bee population and bee statistics. Click HERE to see a better photo of this image. In this image it gives how information about colony losses, some of the causes, the decline in losses, the effects on us, the crops its effecting, and how many billions we are loosing annualy.
Summary: Honey bees are decreasing in population due to Colony Collapse Disorder(CCD) , disease, deforestation, climate change, and pollution. 90% of the wild bee population in the United States has died out. Beekeepers have been losing 25% of their hives each winter. This could leave Beekeepers without a job. Also scientists believe that this could lead to worse things for humans because bees pollinate most of the U.S.’s crops. In 2000, the value of crops pollinated by bees was estimated at $14.6 billion in the USA alone. Opinion/Reflection: This is a very big issue for us and I believe we need to act fast. 90% is a huge number of loss. We need to find out what is causing all the CCD. If we can’t reverse this issue we may need to find alternative ways to pollinate all the crops.
Questions:
1.) Why is this such a big issue for us?
2.) What do you think is causing the CCD?
3.) Do you have any ideas how we can reverse this?
4.) What should we do now to help?
I also think this is a serious issue to be considering for. Bees are very important when it comes to pollinating and with the ecosystem adjusted toward pollination, this is going to be a huge disaster. There are, of course, other pollinating insects that pollinate but bees are much more suffiecent in doing so. Problem is, with the complete collapes of bees, will forth come a global famine and amongst such disaster comes collapse of global peace. I do hope that scientist will find the cause of this disaster and fix it as soon as possible.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.epa.gov/pesticides/about/intheworks/honeybee.htm This article also demonstates and explain about the CCD.
Questions
1)What othe rpollinaters are there?
2)What is happening to the rest of the world?
3)How much of the pollination are the bees responsible for?
I agree with Nasrine on this issue. I have read an article on something like this before. I was shocked and I really didn't believe it because I see bees everywhere, but if 90% of them are gone then obviously there is a problem. If we lose our whole bee population then we are in trouble because we rely heavily on bees to pollinate our crops and such.
ReplyDeleteQuestions:
1) Are we the only place with this problem?
2)Do you think bees could completely go extinct?
3)If there were no more bees, how else could we pollinate our crops?
I feel that we should definitely find a way to protect those bees, because we all know how important they are to our environment. The fact that 90% of them are gone is frightening, especially because of our reliance on them (pollenqte crops, honey, ect.).
ReplyDeleteQuestions:
1)What was the original population of bees in America?
2)At this rate, is there any way we would be able to save the bees and bring it back to that original population?
3)Would importing bees from another country help, or be ineffective/other countries have low populations?