The Important Role of Bees in the Pollination of Flowers, Trees, and Crops

In early November, Ontario, Canada had established a new corn crop plantation. Like many vegetable fields, farmers are required to use GMO neonicotinoids that keep in the growth of cop and keep off pesticides. Yet a wild discovery a few days when many bee farmers were losing the bee colonies by the millions and assume that there neonicotinoids could be the reason. I believe this a difficult decision the government cannot stand to stop these GMO from selling because they are high in stock markets. In addition, we cannot let Mother Nature die in our side with the death of the bees that create our ecosystem. The bees are important in our planet because they responsible for pollinating flowers, trees, and most importantly. The food we eat that have flowers within them.

Bees are pollinators that serve our agriculture to everything that we eat. “…they provide us with helped produce approximately $19 billion worth of agricultural crops in the U.S. alone in 2010; that’s estimated to be one-third of everything we eat! The other animal pollinators such as bats, moths, butterflies, hummingbirds, ants, and beetles contributed to an estimated $10 billion…” (One Green Planet) Pollination is very important to the bees and us for several reason in our great sources agriculture of food like broccoli, asparagus, cantaloupes, cucumbers, pumpkins, blueberries, watermelons, almonds, apples, cranberries, and cherries, and not just flowers and lip balm.

As well as honey, people can’t get enough of it and has made millions of dollars just from taking honey that isn’t ours by force with pesticides. “Made by bees regurgitating nectar and passing it back and forth in their mouths to one another before depositing and sealing it in a honeycomb, its intended use is for the bees’ winter food stores. Humans are quite fond of this amber liquid as well – the 2013 honey crop was valued at $317.1 million.”(One Green Planet)

Bees deserve our thanks from beautifying our planet, pollinating our landscapes. Making our environment greener and brighter by helping provide attractive habitats for other animals, also provide homes for them. They pollinate to get what they need and give back to earth as well by fertilizing a flowers ovaries and the production of seeds. “The main insect pollinators, by far, are bees, and while European honey bees are the best known and widely managed pollinators, there are also hundreds of other species of bees, mostly solitary ground nesting species, that contribute some level of pollination services to crops and are very important in natural plant communities.”(Michigan State) The hair that contain electrostatic forces and attract pollen to carry on their bodies and to the nest.

Numerous reports have been said all over the media like L.A Times, CNN, New York Times, and The Weather Channel are scratching their heads for the disappearing of bees for this is becoming a colony collapse disorder. The Weather Channel says, “The disorder is spreading nationwide, he said, and the die-off was 70 percent at his hives this past winter.”(Weather Channel) Many national institutes urge farmers to ease and lower the dose of spraying crops at night and especially in the day time when bees and much active.