Be Essay
Colony collapse disorder is a term used for the sudden disappearance of the honey bees. The bees are dying and there are many reasons why. There is enough food and honey, so it is peculiar to why the bees are leaving. The main causes Colony collapse disorder are pesticides, and the environment. If we do not pay attention to this, the bess will so be no more, and so would everything we get from them.
Honey bees are so vital to all living things. These little workers can complete a huge job. Honey bees pollinate over 40 percent of the food we consume. Imagine life without the hiner bees, we would have nearly nothing to eat. If the bees die, so will other insects,and when the insects die, the flowers will die. When the flowers die, the plants will begin to die. When the plants die, birds will die, and the animals will have nothing to eat. If the animals and plants die, we will starve. The honey bees practically control all life. If they cannot complete their job, our entire ecosystem will fail. The honey bees are one the the life’s greatest nurturers and fertilizers. But that’s not the end of it. Not only do the bees complete a job, but their honey is sacred. Honey contains natural enzymes and nutrients. In fact, before we had medicines and topical treatments, people used honey for almost everything. Honey has the ability to help externally and internally.
Bees are dying because of our careless actions. Most of the honey manufacturers are in it for the money, not for the health of our bees. We now feed the bees high fructose corn syrup to strengthen them, which is not at all good for them. The honey bee population is also decreasing due to our genetic modification of them. Most are now realizing the negative, long term effects of manipulating nature. But that isn’t even the worst part. They really only care for the Queen Bee, which her main duty is breeding. She can carry more larvae inside her than her own weight. But the honey companies mistreat her a lot. They trap the honey bees in a tiny cage and ship them off to someplace where they get manually impregnated by the sperm that was injected to them in a science lab. So the queen bees are forced to make there own babies.
Pesticides, parasites, and genetic modification are the main reason to why colony collapse disorder is occurring. We spray the flowers with pesticides to eliminate unwanted pests, but these chemicals are also harming the bees. We need the bees to pollinate the flowers, but now they are dying off. Genetic modification is also a big reason. They genetically modify the plant and flower seeds. When the seeds are modified, so are is the pollen. With the lack of pollen nutrients, the bees become malnourished or even poisoned for the chemicals. Parasites play a big role with the honey bee lifetime. The most known one is the varroa mite. This mite lives off the honey bee and suck it's blood, slowly killing it. The varroa mite is common in honey bees. Varroa mite infestations usually begin with the importing of bees from other countries with different standards. Bee keepers try to rid the varroa mites with chemical sprays but while attempting to kill the mites, more pests breed. The bee keepers are now trying to determine whether the bee and fight off the mite on it's own.
We can make a change to prevent this from happening, but it wont be easy, especially not by ours self if we get communities to work together, we can improve. We can plant, become backyard beekeepers, and create a bee-friendly garden. These changes will make a better life of the bees. I believe it will be very difficult for America to open their eyes about CCD. I honestly think many just won't care. People nowadays are busy, and not a large amount of people have the time to care for the bees, but he bees care for us everyday, with nothing given in return. America will be stunned once most of our environmental life will have vanished. First, life will decrease, then, we will start losing food, lastly, we will start to die. If you really think about it, bees control everything, we just think of them as stingers, but in reality they are much more!
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