Biodiversity and Bees
Bees are little, yet have large roles in terms of
biodiversity. As reported by CNN (May 5, 2000), “One third of all our
food-fruits and vegetables would not exist without pollinators visiting flowers.
But honeybees, the primary species that fertilizes food-producing plants, have
suffered dramatic declines in recent years, mostly from afflictions introduced
by humans.”
A food producing plant can range from fruit trees to berries
and a wide variety of things. In order for a plant to effectively produce food,
the plant would need a pollinator that can move pollen from the male anthers of
a flower to the female stigma of a flower to successfully accomplish
fertilization. "Bees are vital to biodiversity, there are thousands of plants for which bees are essential to pollination.
" There has been a great scale of decline in bees that result from various
diseases, environmental pollution, environmental degradation and farming
practices. Since there is a large scale of things that can impact the lives of
bees it is hard to pinpoint what has the largest impact on the decline of bees.
The first step is acknowledging the issue and understanding how crucial bees
and pollinators are for agriculture. Bee
farm practices can grow and effectively create a way to increase the amount of
bees present in a farm.
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