Honey Bees! Where are You?
By: Savita
Go outside and enjoy the air. There is something missing! B--U--Z--Z! Thatʼs right, where are all the honey bees?? Are they in town? Lately I have not been seeing honey bees in my backyard. Many beekeepers are seeing that their bee hives are empty and many dead bees. That causes a lot of worry for important crops growth. All across the United States, honeybees are flying away from their hives and dying. Oh! That is not good news. We learned in our Environments unit, this year, that bees have a big role in helping to produce fruits and nuts that we enjoy. They are like “mini farmers.” They do not just create honey for us to eat, they are pollinators. They pollinate food from one flower to another. California’s almond crop alone depends on the bees for pollination. Many scientists believe that the bees got exposed to a diseases or poison. It is very hard to know exactly what happened. Since the bees have died far away while visiting flowers, it’s hard for scientists to go examine their dead bodies which are not near the hive. “It isn’t like studying a large animal like a cow that doesn’t move around much and is easy to find out in the cow field,” says Dr. Jeff Pettis a researcher on bees. Researchers have some ideas about what could be affecting bee health: 1) Sick from poisons widely used to kill insects 2) They might not be getting enough good food to stay strong 3) A virus bacteria can kill the bees. Do you think humans are playing a role in trying to kill the bees? Have you noticed there are fewer bees now?
4 comments:
Yes, I do see fewer bees out there, and I like it very much because once when I was in the woods, I just went past a plant and then at least ten bees flew out and stung my head!!!!!!
That's when I started to hate bees more than spiders.
I do not think that humans played a role in killing all the bees, and I have noticed that there are fewer bees now. Now there are mostly wasps.
I actually did notice that there are fewer bees. Since it is spring time, there should be many bees, but lately, I've been noticing not many bees around. This is a real big problem. What if most of the bees are dead? Without bees, we could not have flowers anymore because bees need to pollinate them. However, I do think that there may be a slight chance of humans are sort of making this happen. Some people accidentally may have spread pesticides on flowers which caused bees to suddenly die.
I have noticed that at Portal, there was lots of bees at Portal. Mow, I don't find as much. Some people might be affecting the bees. Some people don't like bees, so they might go buy this bug spray that kills insects.
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