Article found on Huffington Post, written by Jaqueline Howard.
Bees have been declining in number for a few years now. It has come to our attention that they have been declining for a number of reasons, including illness and hives abandoning their queen and young. This article explains how some researchers are trying to understand causes for this behavior by tracking them. Written a few days ago (August 28, 2015), this article is new, so the results of their research is inconclusive at this time.
We hope to soon find out why the bees have been dying, and why the number of hives have been reduced by about a third before it is to late to help them. Honeybees are valuable not only because they produce honey, but also they are natures finest pollinators. Without bees, we will have to pollinate manually, or worse, the number of wasps will rise in order to fill the gap.
This article informs its readers that we can do something about the extinction of bees. We need to step up out game to help these little buzzers so we can keep honey, and flowering plants. 30% out our agriculture, and 90% of wild plant life is pollinated by bees.
I hadn't thought about the number of wasps increasing as a possible side effect of bee decline. That's interesting and horrifying. -Brooks Norton
ReplyDeleteHow tragic. Sadness overwhelms my heart because bees are so precious. I personally prefer bees over wasps. when you think of wasps, you think of kill, kill, kill. In the other hand, bees remind me of honey which then make me think of winnie the pooh and that is grrreat just like Tony the tiger who never gives up and is always Lovin' it. parapapapa - Mariela Lomeli
ReplyDeleteAmongst the myriad of problems concerning our environment, the decline of the bee population is the most troubling. Although it seems like the least of our worries, without bees other environmental systems will begin to suffer. It could cause a disastrous train reaction that might leave Earth uninhabitable. It is extremely encouraging that scientists are making such an effort to study this decline and figure out ways to counteract it.
ReplyDelete-Lisl Wangermann 1st Period