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.