The Buzz about Bees (original draft)

In the past decade, monoculture in America and pesticides/insecticides has been largely focused on. The pesticides keep bugs and contaminating organisms off the products. Monoculture is a large part of the economy in the US. The food produced. What are the ingredients for a successful harvest in monoculture? Sunlight, water, different conditions that produce a better product are all important factors. There is one key component, however, that we don’t ever think of in considering these products. That component is the bee population! The bees! Yes, who else?. The people eat the product, the farmers profit from it, and the bees are needed to pollinate the product. Each year, millions of bees from across the country are imported into California for the largest monoculture event in the world. The biggest problem with monoculture events such as this is the pesticides. Pesticides are sprayed on the products to prevent the spread of pests and other pesky insects. This creates a problem for the bees. When the bees go to pollinate the products the chemicals confuse the directional senses of the bee. The bee cannot find it’s way back to the hive and therefore dies off in it’s own confusion. This is a major problem for the bees. Their populations are dying off and disappearing because of monoculture, pesticides, and even genetically altered foods. We fail to recognize in society that not only does this affect the bees but us as well. We are only allowed to eat the food provided to us by the farmers because they are pollinated by the bees. We are killing off bees with monoculture. We are killing off bees with exterminating chemicals because we are not educated about the benefits bees provide for us. We need to provide safe environments for bees so not only they can thrive but they can regrow our environment.

Final Draft of Bee Essay

Honey bees are a huge contribution to the world we live in today. They pollinate 40% of  

the plants that make up the food we eat. Without them we would not have the diverse plant life we do now. The bees are suffering from the Colony Collapse Disorder. All around the globe bees are disappearing and dying. The very creatures who help the world survive are declining and rapidly. This fact goes unnoticed by the majority of the population of the world, something that needs to change dramatically.

   Several organizations and individuals want to help the honey bees. Some believe the disuse of pesticdes and chemicals will help, while others think the bees need to live a natural exsistance. The queen bee is no longer taking the marriage flight and mating as she once would. Now virgin queen bees are sedated and the injected with sperm from a single worker bee rather than a dozen. The wondrous and elating expirence of the marriage flight has been robbed of the bees. Another problem bees face are the burrow mites. Burrow mites are parasites that live on bees and drain them of life as time goes on. Scientists have attempted to find an antibiotic that can help the bees fight te burrow mites but the mites have become accustomed to the chemicals and seem to just get stronger with each new medicine introduced. 

Honey is a gift from the bees. Many people like the taste of honey and its texture in their mouthes. Most like the sweet taste and the fact is a natural sweetener. This wonderful product would be the first of many to disappear with the bees. This would show people how important bees are because as honey goes way so will some of people's favorite food.

  As scientists scramble to find a solution to the problem many beekeepers have looked beyond the surface to what the bee are telling humans as a whole. Bees are imported and exported around the  world. Many swarms are mixes of bees from different continents. Organic beekeepers look upon this practice with disapproval. They believe the bees are telling us these ways of pollinating need to end. The way many people will become educated on this matter is when the objects they have taken for granted start to become a rarity when they had before they had been the norm. Until we can start being the caretakers we can be the bees will continue to disappear and with them, all life.

Queen of the Sun

Gerardo Martinez

April 5, 2013

Period 4

Queen of the Sun

Currently, most people around the world are finishing, or killing, bee populations because they believe bees always attack people. Many owners of farms and land, used for agriculture, are paying for pesticides that are eventually harming insect populations such as bee. When the bees are infested with the pesticides and herbicides used on plants they pollinate, they tend to be affected in the way that they become blind and don’t know where they are going, but also don’t remember which plants they have pollinated already. Furthermore, the pesticides used on the plants the bees pollinate are harming the bees in the way that they affect the bees in their reproduction of new generations. Even though many people are killing bees because they can sting people, many other people have comprehended that bees just sting others to protect themselves and that they are really important in many ways, so many people have become beekeepers.

The honey bees are really important for both the plants and the people living on Earth. Although many people believe the bees need human support in order to survive, the honey bees, specially, are helping humans on the planet to survive because they pollinate 4/10, or 40%, of the food people, like us, consume. By pollinating the flowers and other plants in the fields they create a cleaner air in the environment because by pollinating the plants, the plants are able to survive longer. Also, they provide the beekeepers with a large amount of honey from which they make a large amount of profit. Many of the other bees may be really harmful to the humans, but people always confuse them with the honey bees and that is why many honey bees are dying because of humans who don’t understand them.

In order for people to stop killing bee populations, they need to see drastic changes in the environment and in prices of honey and other goods coming from plants pollinated by bees. One way the people would stop eliminating bees and understand that they are important is when they start to see that global warming is affecting the world more than now. If this serious problem continues on Earth, there will be less plants that won’t be able to decompose, or eliminate, the pollution in our air because plants are the ones who clean the air in the atmosphere. Also, they, the people getting rid of bees, will understand this is a real problem once they stop to see the selling of natural honey and the lack of plant diversity around the world. Finally, the worst reason that can make them change with be once the people start to see a lot of people dying from diseases thanks to the pollution in the atmosphere of the planet.

Queen of the Sol

Henry Tran
Bursch
Honors Biology
4-15-13

Bee Essay

The bee is a very important factor in a plant-based ecosystem. Each and every single stripe of black and yellow has some form of contribution to the hive. The bee pollinates each plant, and produces useful honey and wax.  Provided the competence of the bee, it is commonly taken for granted because its swarming, intimidating appearance.  Dangerous toxins and poisons are one of the leading attributes killing the bees. Pesticides and fertilizers used on plants directly affect the bee.  We the people have been destroying the bee populations without even realizing it.
Many people in the world have forgotten the vitality of bees, and have mistaken them as an annoying, home-settling, useless hive that only endangers humans to toxic stings. However, the truth is, bees are nearly harmless and only retaliate when forced upon. They are overshadowed by lethal insects such as yellow jackets, and people go through unnecessary means to eliminate swarms and hives. This includes usages of pesticides and harmful, anti-environmental gases.
What people do not realize is how bees have not been appreciated. Due to lack of care and/or responsibility, bees have begun falling into Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD for short. CCD is caused by monoculture, neutralization by gasses, and constant transportation across thousands of miles. Bees are dying by the hive, and at least millions have already been lost.
To raise awareness, urban and rural people alike have taken interest to beekeeping. Citizens have demanded for beekeeping to be legal, and have started their own colonies, with the help of experts, in their backyards or on their rooftops.  People must realize that bees are in danger, and that they are to blame for.  Human interaction with bees have been excessive, but in the wrong way.  We are using the bees, instead cooperating with them.  Humans have to wake up and see that bees are really important, and must live harmoniously with us.

Final Draft: Queen of the Sun - Ryann Smith posted by Emily Solano

Ryann Smith

Bursch

Honors Biology

4-5-13

Honey bees are a major factor in the bio diverse world we live in today. They pollinate over 40% of the plants that make up the food we eat. Without them we would not see the wonderful plant life we do now. People need to "wake up" and realize that without these little creatures the world would not be what it is today. For that to happen some of the seasonal products need to disappear and honey prices to increase.

Most of the seasonal products that are popular are pollinated by bees. These products vary from fruits to vegetables and are bought by almost every household in the United States. Without the bees people would not be able to acquire these goods. Pollination makes plants thrive which helps to produce the fruits and vegetables that our world eats daily. If these products were to disappear because lack of pollination people will "wake up" and realize that there is an increasing problem with the bees in the United States.

Honey is a favorite in every household in the United States, it is used in many ways such as a sweetener in tea. Most people like how it is cheap, organic, and chemical free. All people in the world know that honey comes from bees but not all of them know about the colony colapse disorder. If there were an increase in the honey prices people will understand that there is a reason for the increase and that is the colony colapse disorder.

Queen of the Sun

Honey bees are a huge contribution to the world we live in today. They pollinate 40% of  

the plants that make up the food we eat. Without them we would not have the diverse plant life we do now. The bees are suffering from the Colony Collapse Disorder. All around the globe bees are disappearing and dying. The very creatures who help the world survive are declining and rapidly.

Several organizations and individuals want to help the honey bees. Some believe the disuse of pesticides and chemicals will help while others think the bees need to live a natural life. The queen bee is no longer taking the marriage flight and mating as she once would. Now virgin queen bees are sedated and the injected with sperm from a single worker bee rather than a dozen. The wondrous and elating experience of the marriage flight has been robbed of the bees. Another problem bees face are the burrow mites. Burrow mites are parasites that live on bees and drain them of life as time goes on. Scientists have attempted to find an antibiotic that can help the bees fight the burrow mites but the mites have become accustomed to the chemicals and seem to just get stronger with each new medicine introduced.

  As scientists scramble to find a solution to the problem many beekeepers have looked beyond the surface to what the bee are telling humans as a whole. Bees are imported and exported around the  world. Many swarms are mixes of bees from different continents. Organic beekeepers look upon this practice with disapproval. They believe the bees are telling us these ways of pollinating need to end. Until we can start being the caretakers we can be the bees will continue to disappear and with them, all life.