The honey bee hives are disappearing from nature.....
Einstein apparently said-“ All men will vanish from earth after two years of extinction of honey bees….”
Have you remember the last time when you hear the buzz of a honey bee? You might be thankful to god that you had not encountered an angry bee, because its just an undesirable encounter that should happen and often a sign of misfortune that you are going to be biten by a heartless creature that is small but still a nightmare! But that might not be true for all of us at least for a person who spent his or her childhood with nature in summers (of 69?). For regular people it is necessary to know that honey bees does not exist as a synthesizer of honey for your meal but honey bees are the prime pollinators(Spread pollens from one flower to another for reproduction) of one third of crops that grew each year throughout the world. Decline of population of these Bees from 30 to 90% is cause of concern and reason for decline in crop production for last seven years in some parts of world especially in US.
Scientists have described many causes since their population declined like too much intensity of radio signals caused by excessive use mobile phones by the people. Radio signals causes an interruption in way , the bees communicate and they lost their ways to honeycombs, left for dying without their habitat.But are mobile phones really be reasons for disappearance of bees from croplands, miles away from city rush as the mobile towers don’t exist in villages more often. …
Some Harvard University researchers hypothesized that the uptick in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) resulted from the presence of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid pesticide introduced in the early 1990s. Bees can be exposed in two ways: through nectar from plants or through high-fructose corn syrup beekeepers use to feed their bees. (Since most U.S.-grown corn has been treated with imidacloprid, it’s also found in corn syrup.)
In the summer of 2010, the Harvard researchers conducted an in situ study in Worcester County aimed at replicating how imidacloprid may have caused the colony collapse disorder outbreak. Over a 23-week period, they monitored bees in four different bee yards; each yard had four hives treated with different levels of imidacloprid and one control hive. After 12 weeks of imidacloprid dosing, all the bees were alive. But after 23 weeks, 15 of the 16 imidacloprid-treated hives had perished. Those exposed to the highest levels of the pesticide died first.
The final results are described as positive, as the dead hives found by the researchers were almost similar to that caused by the pesticide. The final report will be published later on as research paper and will be sent to the concerned authorities, officials and farmers since this is a crucial issue in field of agriculture productions and economy.
Article courtesy: Harvard University
Have you remember the last time when you hear the buzz of a honey bee? You might be thankful to god that you had not encountered an angry bee, because its just an undesirable encounter that should happen and often a sign of misfortune that you are going to be biten by a heartless creature that is small but still a nightmare! But that might not be true for all of us at least for a person who spent his or her childhood with nature in summers (of 69?). For regular people it is necessary to know that honey bees does not exist as a synthesizer of honey for your meal but honey bees are the prime pollinators(Spread pollens from one flower to another for reproduction) of one third of crops that grew each year throughout the world. Decline of population of these Bees from 30 to 90% is cause of concern and reason for decline in crop production for last seven years in some parts of world especially in US.
Scientists have described many causes since their population declined like too much intensity of radio signals caused by excessive use mobile phones by the people. Radio signals causes an interruption in way , the bees communicate and they lost their ways to honeycombs, left for dying without their habitat.But are mobile phones really be reasons for disappearance of bees from croplands, miles away from city rush as the mobile towers don’t exist in villages more often. …
Some Harvard University researchers hypothesized that the uptick in Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) resulted from the presence of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid pesticide introduced in the early 1990s. Bees can be exposed in two ways: through nectar from plants or through high-fructose corn syrup beekeepers use to feed their bees. (Since most U.S.-grown corn has been treated with imidacloprid, it’s also found in corn syrup.)
In the summer of 2010, the Harvard researchers conducted an in situ study in Worcester County aimed at replicating how imidacloprid may have caused the colony collapse disorder outbreak. Over a 23-week period, they monitored bees in four different bee yards; each yard had four hives treated with different levels of imidacloprid and one control hive. After 12 weeks of imidacloprid dosing, all the bees were alive. But after 23 weeks, 15 of the 16 imidacloprid-treated hives had perished. Those exposed to the highest levels of the pesticide died first.
The final results are described as positive, as the dead hives found by the researchers were almost similar to that caused by the pesticide. The final report will be published later on as research paper and will be sent to the concerned authorities, officials and farmers since this is a crucial issue in field of agriculture productions and economy.
Article courtesy: Harvard University
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