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If Bees Were To Disappear

                Bees play a very important role in our food chain by pollinating flowers. If there were to be no bees, there would be no more pollination. This would eliminate most plant species. Animals including human being will suffer from the lack of food. Bees can pollinate 3 million flowers in one day. Manually, humans can pollinate 300,000 flowers in a day. The importance of bees for our ecosystem was already evident to Albert Einstein who once said, “If bees were to disappear, the human race would follow suit four years later because of the important role bees play in pollinating plants.”

The unusual and sudden disappearance of bees is termed as ‘Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)’ by scientists. The recent loss of bees in United States ranges from 30 to 60 percent on west coast to as much as 70 percent in parts of east coast and Texas. CCD occurs when the workers bee, who collect nectar from the pollen of the flowers, do not return back to the hive leaving behind the queen, eggs, and few workers. This phenomenon is strange and terrifying as we know that the worker bees protect the queen bee jeopardizing their own lives. While the reason for disappearance of bees remains conspicuous, researchers worried about this issue have blamed it on the radiation from cell phones, Genetically Modified (GM) crops, and pesticides.

                One theory, believed to be causing the disappearance of bees, is the radiation from the cell phones. Cell Phones are signaled by electromagnetic radiation emitted from the cell phone-towers. Bees are supposed to be using their own natural electromagnetic frequency to communicate with each other and finding their way back to their hive. Bees might get confused with the signal from electromagnetic radiation, and may not be able to return back to their hives. These stranded bees may eventually die as we all know bees prefer to live in colonies. This theory has not proved very convincing as questions are being asked why the same problem did not occurred couple of years ago when we had cell phone signals back then too.

                Another theory involves the wide spread use of pesticides in agriculture. Pesticides that are spread on the crops to keep away pests like moths, and butterflies may reach bees if spread around flowers. Bees get poisoned by drinking water and nectar contaminated with pesticides.  Insecticidal dust adheres to foraging bees and ultimately become packed with pollen on to the hind limbs. Bees those come in contact with Chlorinated hydrocarbons, and organophosphorous insecticides are aggressive and often exhibit stupefaction, paralysis, and abnormal behaviors. Bees poisoned with sevin and deldrin slow down in its activities, and ultimately die within two to three days.

                Genetically modified crops are also blamed for the sudden disappearance of bee population. Although GM crops assure us that manipulation of genetically modified crops are safe for both environment and human consumption, research need to be done on the indirect effect of GM crops on non target organism like bees. The transgenic gene incorporated on the crops involves genes from bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which remain in the crop as insecticides and kill the pest that eat these crops. Bt variants available in the market target beetles, flies, and mosquitoes.  Bees forage on crops like corn, and we can assume that the pollen made from the cells containing Bt gene would also carry Bt. Whether genetically modified crops is causing the disappearance of the bee population may be known by studying the population of bees around normal crops and genetically modified crops. The sudden loss of bee population in United States where GM crops are cultivated, whereas relatively no effect on the population of bees in Great Britain who are strictly against the production of genetically modified crops, may raise our eyebrow over the fact that GM crops might indirectly be causing the loss of bee population.

                We might think, “oh well, I hated bees anyway. Why do I care?” If bees are to be extinct, our food chain and later humans may face extinction. Whatever might be the reason for disappearance of honey bees, if we don’t figure out a solution for this problem, we are going to run short on our food supply. The economy of our country is already highly affected by having to depend on foreign country for fuel, the situation would be even worse when we start importing food from other European nations.

Bees are known for their hard labor to harvest honey from the flowers. Bees might be able to sue humans for stealing their honey in the ‘Bee movie’, but in real life they are helpless. Who knows, they might be voicing their discontent from this mass disappearance of their colony. We may not care about bees, but if we do not want to stay hungry, we better be thinking to save these bees. A Halloween without pumpkin pie and pumpkin lights, and our beverages without raspberries, melon, and grapefruit are ominous to imagine. There would be lots of other things we would be missing if we let these bees go away.