What will happen to humanity if the bees disappear?

Written By ديانا الحموري on 2014/05/19

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

ArabiaWeather.com - Hives are dying at terrifying proportions. Since 2007, nearly 30% of hives have died every winter in the United States, and this loss is twice the economically acceptable rate for beekeepers in the United States. In the winter of 2012/2013, it died. 29% of the hives are in Canada and 20% in Europe, which means that they are in great danger, as is the case with wild bee species, specifically bumblebees, which calls for a warning cry. Honeybees and wild bees are the most important pollinators of many types of fruits and vegetables that we eat. Of the 100 crop varieties that make up 90% of the planet’s population, 71 are pollinated by bees. Bee pollination in the United States alone generates $29 billion in farm income. However, the decrease in bees leads to a possible shortage in the availability of vegetables and fruits, and a possible increase in their prices. Less bees mean that there are no almonds, coffee, or alfalfa hay that dairy cows feed on. The bees extract all the protein they need in their food from pollen in flowers, and all the carbohydrates they need from the nectar of flowers, and as they fly from one flower to another, pollen grains gather on their fluffy body, and they take them to the hive as food, and their journey ends with the transfer of pollen from flower to flower. Others of its kind, where the pollination process takes place, and as we want to get good and clean food, so are pollination insects, so if the bees do not have enough food, we will not have enough food, and the death of the bees gives a loud cry that they cannot survive in our agricultural environment and civil. Fifty years ago, bees lived healthy lives in our cities and countryside because they had an abundance of flowers to feed on, there was less use of pesticides that spoil their food in flowers, and fewer exotic diseases and epidemics. Wild bees successfully built their nests in uncultivated soil and on branches, and now they have trouble finding sources of pollen and nectar due to the heavy use of herbicides, which kill many flowering plants between crops, in irrigation canals, on roadsides and in lawns. Flowers can also be contaminated with pesticides, which can directly kill bees, or weaken them and affect their health. In addition, with the growth of global trade and increased transportation, bloodsucking parasites, viruses and bee pathogens have unintentionally passed from the world to bees. The other pathogens and parasites have weakened the immune system of bees, making them more sensitive and vulnerable to malnutrition due to a lack of flowers, particularly in countries with intensive agriculture and extensive use of pesticides. what can we do? Any individual action, however small, can lead to something positive, and perhaps to radical change on a large scale. We should all help transform our farms and urban areas by growing flowers in and around crops, in places where crops are useless, and on the sides of roads, in power lines and in urban lawns. What can we plant? We have to plant flowering plants that are endemic to the area, or grow alfalfa, alfalfa or any flowering plants that form vegetation that can fertilize the soil and prevent erosion (CNN).

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

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