List of main ideas, concepts or key points:
Summarize the author's main idea:
Research is pointing to a complex disease in which combinations of factors, including farming practices, make the bees vulnerable to viruses. More than half of 3,000 were completely devoid of bees. Only 800 of the original of the 3,000 colonies had survived. The bee loss has raised alarm because one third of the world's agricultural production depends on the European honeybee. Bees suffering from CCD tend to be infested with multiple pathogen, including a newly discovered virus. There is no easy remedy to CCD, it requires taking better care of the environment and making long-term changes to our beekeeping and practices. The number of managed honeybee colonies in 2006 was about 2.4 million, less than what it was in 1949. Large farms are required to pollination activity for short periods of time, a role that other species cannot fulfill.
Although the honeybee's population is very low, CCD will not cause the extinction of the honeybee In the spring of 2007 the task force began detailed, countrywide surveys of all aspects of all colony management. By interviewing operators who had encountered CCD as well those who did not. Many people were eager to share their concerns, as the media went on investigating the situation theories started to erupt. One theory favored by many citizens would be that bees could have poisoned the pollen from genetic modified crops. Soon the community started to notice that the large commercial honeybee keepers were more likely to suffer from higher losses as well as lower operations.
Reflection:
After reading this article I've learned so much more about bees. I had no idea that bees have started to decline because of CCD or even decline at all since I see them as nuisances. I think that CCD is nonprofitable and should be ceased before all the bees go extinct in the near future. Instead of killing a bee on the spot because of the fear of getting stung, we should remember their contribution to society and try to preserve and save them as much as possible. What scientists should be doing is finding a way to protect bees from IAVP and find the type of vaccine for the bees also.
So What?
Says Who?
What if?
What does it remind you of?
- Millions of bees worldwide have emptied out as honeybees , mysteriosuly disappear, putting at risk nearly 100 crops that require pollination.
- Research is pointing to a complex disease in which combinations of factors including making bees vulnerable to virus. Taking extra care with hive hygenie seems to aid prevention.
- The bee loss has raised many alarms because one thirds of the world's argicultural production depends on the European honeybee , the kind that are adopted in the Western countries.
- Large farms are required to pollination activity for short period of times, a role that other species cannot fulfill.
- Bee suffering from CCD tend to be infested with multiple pathogens, including a newly discovered virus, but these infections seem secondary much the way pneumonia kills a patient with AIDS.
- Even before the colony collapsed, honeybees had suffered from a number of aliments that reduce their population.
- The number of managed honeybee colonies in 2006 was about 2.4 million, less than half of what it was in 1949.
- Although honeybee CCD will not cause the extinction of the honeybee, it could push many honeybee keepers out of business.
- Mites, feed on the honeybee's blood carrying virus and actively inhibits the host's immune responses.
- In the spring of 2007, task force began detailed countrywide surveys of all aspects of colony management by interviewing operators who had encountered CCD as well as those who had not.
- Large commercial honeybee keepers were likely to suffer from high losses as were small operations.
- There are an estimated 900 to 1,000 commercial honeybee keepers in the United States, managing 2.4 million colonies
- Nearly 100 kind of crops require pollination by honeybees. The annual value of bee's work is $14 billion in the United States and $215 billion worldwide.
- Every February virtually all movable U.S. hives are taken to California to pollinate almond trees. Even before CCD, in certain regions of China bees had completely disappeared, possibly because of pesticide use, forcing orchard owners to pollinate pear trees by hand.
- Many bee keepers have some success at preventing colony use loss by redoubling their efforts at improving their colonies diets, keeping infections and parasites in check.
Summarize the author's main idea:
Research is pointing to a complex disease in which combinations of factors, including farming practices, make the bees vulnerable to viruses. More than half of 3,000 were completely devoid of bees. Only 800 of the original of the 3,000 colonies had survived. The bee loss has raised alarm because one third of the world's agricultural production depends on the European honeybee. Bees suffering from CCD tend to be infested with multiple pathogen, including a newly discovered virus. There is no easy remedy to CCD, it requires taking better care of the environment and making long-term changes to our beekeeping and practices. The number of managed honeybee colonies in 2006 was about 2.4 million, less than what it was in 1949. Large farms are required to pollination activity for short periods of time, a role that other species cannot fulfill.
Although the honeybee's population is very low, CCD will not cause the extinction of the honeybee In the spring of 2007 the task force began detailed, countrywide surveys of all aspects of all colony management. By interviewing operators who had encountered CCD as well those who did not. Many people were eager to share their concerns, as the media went on investigating the situation theories started to erupt. One theory favored by many citizens would be that bees could have poisoned the pollen from genetic modified crops. Soon the community started to notice that the large commercial honeybee keepers were more likely to suffer from higher losses as well as lower operations.
Reflection:
After reading this article I've learned so much more about bees. I had no idea that bees have started to decline because of CCD or even decline at all since I see them as nuisances. I think that CCD is nonprofitable and should be ceased before all the bees go extinct in the near future. Instead of killing a bee on the spot because of the fear of getting stung, we should remember their contribution to society and try to preserve and save them as much as possible. What scientists should be doing is finding a way to protect bees from IAVP and find the type of vaccine for the bees also.
So What?
- No honeybees lead to no one to pollinate our food supply
Says Who?
- Diane Cox-Foster
- Denis vanEngledrop
What if?
- Methods to were made to increase the honeybee's population were successful
What does it remind you of?
- The movie "Bee"