The dangers of declining bee populations

by A.R. Marth

When we think of bees, we think of honey. Honey, as a food, is not the most important thing in our diet. So we may not know the full impact of the declining bee population. Bees, in the wild, are pollinators for a wide ...read more

by MK Handley

Would the loss of honeybees really create a worldwide environmental emergency? So DreamWorks would have us believe. In its recent "Bee Movie", when the honeybees go on strike, plants start to wilt from lack of pollination ...read more

by Sandra Lynn

The honey bee population is in serious decline, this is an environmental disaster in the making. The collapse of the food chain is imminent if we do not act, and act quickly. Since the 1980's the bee population has been i...read more

by George Berger

Civilizations have largely ignored the importance of bees to their economies, as well as their crucial importance in feeding their populations. Most plants are dependent on particular kinds of bees for their reproduction ...read more

by Calvin Robinson

Honeybee populations are declining and this is a dangerous trend that we must do something about. I have begun using my passion for beekeeping to help educate new beekeepers. I discovered that I am so passionate about bee...read more

by Carol Wohlfeil

Spring is in the air. Gardens are being cultivated and planted in anticipation of the bounty that the autumn harvest will bring. But the garden seems much more quiet these days without the pleasant hum of the bees. April s...read more

by Christina A. Armani

Whether we like it or not, bees are a very crucial part of the food chain. Bees are responsible for a whole lot more than making honey. Bees pollinate a lot of our fruits and vegetables that we enjoy and need for good nu...read more

by Tiffany Nicholson

Honey Bee colonies are disappearing all over the world, and scientist have not pinpointed a cause. Commercial Beekeepers are seeing their hives drop at alarming rates. The West Coast has reporte...read more

by Patricia Ruskauff

The dangers of the declining bee populations is being over exaggerated. Native Americans had plenty to eat before the honey bee was introduced into America. One can make a simple nest for native bees. They may not polli...read more

by Jami Daugherty

Could your cell phone be the cause of the declining bee population? Read on to find out. Over the past year the nation's population of honey bees is quickly growing smaller. The bees are starting to die by the thousands....read more

by Una Enoch

Albert Einstein once predicted that if bees were to disappear, man would follow only a few years later. The impacts of a declining bee population have dire consequences for mankind not least because the bee is essential fo...read more

by Aldo Bonincontro

I have heard news about a decrease of bees populations in many areas of the world, like in North America. The causes of this decline should be the pollution produced by industrial pollution and, mainly, by pesticides use...read more

by Richard Serra

As with any change in our balanced eco system, any one species of animal or insects that become extinct will not impact our lives immediately, but in time will cause a chain reaction that will directly affect not only the ...read more

by Renee Pierce

The declining bee population is a terrible trouble to the world. In the killer bee scarce back in 1996 and before, we realized that bees were precious creatures. We make cottage industries from them. Like the bee keepers, ...read more

by CrazyGato

Are cell phones killing our bees? The declining numbers of the bee population is a scary fact. We as human beings depend on bees in a way I don't think many of us truly understand. We need bees to pollinate and germin...read more

by Jawjahjunkman

The last time I saw and spoke with my Grandfather in 1992, he was 98 years old. His mind was ravaged by Alzheimer's disease and his kidneys were failing. Yet, all he could talk about that day were his bees. He wasn't ma...read more

by Charles Evans

The death of the bees will be the end of civilization as we know it, Einstein knew it. The entire food chain depends on their ability to pollinate the plants. The animals of the world depend on plant life to survive, its ...read more

by Brenda Marie

Pondering the decline of the bee population takes me into other viewpoints. Declining bee population as well as any endangered species is of notable concern. Looking at both flora and fauna, over 1,000 species a day b...read more

by C Davison

The issue of the declining bee population is several pronged. Bee keeping as an occupation increased dramatically with the need for more bees to pollinate crops. The bee keeper could hire out a colony or two to the farme...read more

by Shay Daji

The cause of the declining bee population is still unknown: some think it is a disease among the worker bees. Experts say it's a disease that affects the navigational instincts in bees, so when the worker bees go out miles...read more