Argumentative Essay On Honeybees

Honeybees Are Survival
Honeybees around the world are dying at a fast rate and it is creating world-wide controversy. Scientists have found it could be from a reason of things such as pests, parasites, loss of genetic diversity and much more. Whatever the reason, there will be an outcome if not stopped. Scientists from all over are trying to help find a solution for this horrific topic. There are not much people who know the importance of honeybees in our ecosystem. Most people just think their only purpose is to make honey but how else could the collapse of honeybees really affect us? If honeybees go extinct it will be detrimental to the human existence.
Every night at the dinner table people do not realize that, “One out of every three mouthfuls of food in the American diet is, in some way, a product of honeybee pollination” (Zissu, Alexandra par 1). Almost one hundred percent of our planets fruit, vegetables, and nuts are pollinated from honeybees. If this is the case, that means the collapse in honeybees predict for the future of the worlds ecosystem. Without honeybees

pollinating most of the worlds crops, many foods will no longer be able to be eaten by humans as well as animals.
The planet has only so many crops to sustain human life. Already, there has been a drop in honeybees from 2014 to 2015. In 2014-15 almost forty-one percent of the honeybee population was found to have dropped. This year of 2016, an increase of three percent has been found in the decrease of honeybees. If this trend continues there is no telling what could happen to the worlds food source. Honeybees pollinate hundreds of crops and seeds, “One Cornell University study estimated that honeybees annually pollinate $14 billion worth of seeds and crops in the U.S. Essentially, if honeybees disappear, they could take most of our insect pollinated plants with them, potentially reducing mankind to little more than a water diet” (Boland, Maria par 1). It is astonishing knowing that honeybees have such a huge impact on human survival. Many people do not even take a second thought whenever they see a honeybee. They do not even know that bee is one of the few left in helping them stay alive. The world is taking such a small insect for granted.
At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor Sharoni Shafir studies bees and their decision making. He says “Without bees, the world would look very different” (Bee Research at The Hebrew University 0:30). Professor Sharoni Shafir gave bees he was experimenting on, an ingredient which included some sugar and a scientific material. He later explained after giving them it, the bees were able to fight viruses like the Varroa mite, which has been seen as a big contributor to the decline to honeybee colonies. He is now working to make healthy colonies grow. This could be a good way to help honeybees grow in numbers, although it would be a very long process and by then the bees could be tarnished.
Imagine walking inside of your daily grocery store and finding that there were no more apples, strawberries, celery, beans, nuts, milk, and much more. Half of the produce would be gone. That is how serious Honeybees are to our ecosystem. If honeybees are not alive, that means they can no longer pollinate foods and plants that we need them for. Not only humans need the pollination from honeybees, also animals do. A lot of animals eat the crops that honeybees help pollinate. Without healthy animals, they will eventually die too. It is a continuing food chain. The whole world and its creations will be affected by the collapse of honeybees if we are not already.
Aside from the extinction of honeybees affecting us through food, it will also affect the economy.

There are hundreds of thousands bee keepers in the United States alone. Without honeybees, the beekeepers will eventually lose their jobs because there will no longer be honey for them to sell. Also, no more pollination of different crops mean hundreds of businesses will have to be shut down due to no produce to sell. Over twenty-four million dollars comes from bee pollinators and straight into the United States economy but “…honey bees account for more than fifteen billion dollars through their vital role in keeping fruits, nuts, and vegetables in our diets” (Fact Sheet: The Economic Challenge Posed by Declining Pollinator Populations par 3). Food and money are the two things in this world that truly help us survive. Without both, humans will no longer be able to sustain

themselves.
Sources have proven that with the decline of honeybees, human life has almost little to no chance of survival. Honeybees pollinate about 90 percent of the worlds crop that we need for food and economic welfare. If honeybees continue to decline in population then there will be substantial after effects. The food chain will be destroyed and humans would have to find a new way, if possible, to help pollinate crops along with the help of bats and some birds.
How could humans help save or put a stop to the decline in honeybees? Throughout the world there are many foundations where proceeds go straight to honeybee conservation. One foundation working today is called The Honeybee Conservancy and they have been working to help conserve not only honeybees but every other bee since 2009. Their foundation lets people choose the type of bee they would like to donate to. You could choose from the miner bee, leafcutter bee, mason bee, bumble bee, honey bee, and carpenter bee. All of their proceeds go to research to help find an end to bee decline and they also partnership with schools to encourage students to learn more about bees and their environment.
Honeybees are the biggest contributor in pollination for the worlds crops, which bring us food. Without honeybees the world would become bare and dry. The extinction of honeybees could ultimately destroy the food chain. They pollinate crops which we and the animals eat, and we then eat the animals also. Losing honeybees could also affect us by ruining our economy since there are a lot of companies in the honey industry and a lot of fruit and vegetables that involve the help of honeybees.