The Decline Of Bees: A Case Study

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Bees are extremely important to agriculture. Fruits, vegetables, nuts, and several grains depend on bees for pollination. Many industries will fall due to the decline of bees. Food will become scarce. Agriculture depends on bees.
The bee population started to decline dramatically in 2006. Before 2006 the population declined by 5-10% every year. After 2006 the population started to decline 30% every year. During 2015 and 2016 44% of the bee population was lost. The bees are dying in incredibly large numbers.
The beef and dairy industry will also be affected. Alfalfa is the cow’s major food source. This product depends on pollination, meaning that without bees alfalfa production will fall. When the production of alfalfa falls so will beef and dairy products. In …show more content…

Any oilseed plant depends on pollination. With no bees half of the oil and fat population would disappear. People need some fat. Without fat someone's physical and emotional health can be damaged. The price of dietary oil would rise dramatically.
There are three main theories on why bees are dying. The first theory is parasites. Varroa mites are known to cause bees to become weak. The second theory that is thought to kill bees is poor nutrition. Most domesticated bees are introduced to only one plant. One plant can not hold all of the nutrients for bees. Because of lack of variety, bees do not obtain enough nutrients. The third theory implicates pesticides. Neonics are used to kill insects and are thought to be terribly deadly to bees. There are two ways to approach these problems. One solution is that we could put new restrictions on the use of anything that can kill or harm bees. We could also investigate more thoroughly to find out what has caused the decline in the bee population. Then once we find out what kills bees we could solve those problems. We could also introduce bees to more than one plant to keep them

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