Disappearing Bees! The Cause And Effect Of This Phenomenon
Nature faces huge challenges and if bee populations continue to decline like they’re currently the end result is gonna be catastrophic. To try and think of a world void of honey bees is just impossible because they have a vital job to do if the planet and its living organisms are to continue to exist. A world without honeybees would not last decade, as the order of life would just crumble simply because of the part they play in pollinating crops of fruit and vegetables and almost every species of plants.
Bees have a tight connection or relation with most plants that if this relation was to be severed and the disappearing bees syndrome is prolonged, those plant species would become extinct. The last several years have brought dramatic decline to the honey bees populations; this decline are caused by intensive methods of agriculture where the increased use of chemical pesticides poisons the plants that provide food for the honey bees.
There’re other factors that add to this challenge of bees disappearing, like cooler wet summer seasons and increased cold winters or other areas experiencing very hot summer seasons. Other challenges includes the parasite known as the Varroa mite, it weakens the honey bee’s immune system. This causes the honeybees to be open to attacks from infection, if a colony become infected with mites it is imperative that the problem is treated at once to avoid the colony being decimated.
Another big threat to honey bee populations is an occurance that began sometime in the year 2006 whereby honey bees would just desert their bee colonies almost overnight and not come back. This was to be latter called CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder), this occurance reached the European countries but UK was worst hit with catastrophic consequences. Genetically modified crops are also another challenge and climate change.
All is not lost we just have to lend a hand and keep bees away from all these problems, let us first start by doing away with poisonous pesticides. Once the chemical are removed, we should learn more about honeybees and their behaviour patterns and then grow lots of of plant species that are full of nectar that’s required by the honeybees.
I’d like to urge anyone who’s passionate about nature to set up colonies in gardens and start farming bees. You’ll be hugely rewarded with the honey and the bees wax they produce not mention making it possible for the honey bees to continue to do what they do best which is pollinating crops. You might be thinking…what can one person do? But if we all chip in and do our bit we can be able to turn things around for the better.
