Believe it or not, we all
have to thank a bee for the food we are getting to eat. Both wild and domestic
honey bees perform about 80% of the pollination occurring worldwide. A single
bee is responsible for pollinating 300 million flowers each day and 70 out of
100 human food products that account for 90% of the world’s nutrition are
solely pollinated by bees.What’s killing the Bee Colonies?
Such an extensive amount
of our agrarian profitability is reliant on the honey bees that it is no big
surprise that our consideration is attracted to their plight. Over the past 15
years honey bee colonies have been disappearing, what in general is called the
“bee colony collapse disorder”.
Below
are some major issues and reasons causing a major decrease in the bee population
–Parasites:
The Varroa mite and
Nosema ceranae are some common parasites that can debilitate or even finish
colonies when most of the worker bees become infected. Spores of the parasite
survive on wax combs and the stored food inside states. At the point when
worker bees eat these spores, the parasite attacks the covering of the
digestive system. Profoundly tainted honey bees can\'t process productively and
kick the bucket prior. Beekeepers use anti-infection agents and sanitization of
hives to control this illness.Viruses:
As per the researches,
more than 20 honey bee viruses have been identified. These viruses can affect
honey bees in numerous manners, including slaughtering creating hatchlings and
pupae, diminishing the life expectancy of grown-up honey bees, causing fits and
quakes, lessening intellectual aptitudes, and disabling wing advancement with
the goal that honey bees can\'t fly. Most bumble bee provinces have multiple
viruses, and the degrees of these infections can vacillate consistently. The
main treatment for such viruses is to feed the bee colony a virus-specific RNA
that upgrades the honey bees\' resistant reactions to these specific viruses
however these medicines just smother the viral diseases and don\'t destroy them
completely. Different methodologies that are being researched incorporate
rearing honey bees with hereditary protection from the infections.Bacteria:
Bacterial disease like
American foulbrood is also responsible for the decrease of the bee population.
This sort of infection kills young bees inside the wax cells in which they
develop. This dead brood then becomes the source of spreading the infection by
workers nursing brood. However, some bees detect and eradicate the diseased or
infected brood which in turn stops further spreading of disease. Beekeepers use
antibiotics to prevent such bacterial disease.Pesticides:
Pesticides are man-made
synthetic compounds intended to kill pest organisms. These pests are greatly
responsible for decreasing harvest yields, ornamental plant infections,
reducing animal and human health etc. These pesticides are majorly classified
according to their chemical composition and usage. Framers usually begin to
clean their fields without prior notice to the beekeepers. The outcome is a
monstrous harming and demise of flying honey bees, and survivors regularly have
nectar and dust, polluted with pesticides, which later in the winter become a
reason for the death of whole families. Utilizing synthetic substances,
individuals don\'t generally show the ordinary comprehension of the issue; don\'t
take measures to arrange innovation and timing of defensive measures. This
issue can and should be tackled at the degree of the local organization by the
individual alarm of beekeepers about planning medicines of farmland.Pollution:
Honey bees feel the sting
of air contamination more intensely than we do. A recent study finds that mild
dirty air could kill 80% of Asian honey bees, a key pollinator in South Asia.
Without such honey bees and different creepy crawlies, homegrown creation of
the natural products, vegetables, nuts, and vegetables could be in danger. Over
the top air contamination through mechanical emanations – harmful hefty metals
and metalloids, synthetic compounds, radio-nuclides, and so forth are
responsible for the bee colony collapse. The solution for this issue is
conceivable just at a high managerial level – through rigorous operational
control and high community attention to the executives and evacuation of
mechanical outflows.
The world has over 20,
000 varieties of honey bees with over a million of bee-hive globally. However, the above problems and several such factors are leading to the bee colony collapsing. Regardless of which species are endangered,
people both in and out of the agricultural industry should perform various practices that can help preserve the much-needed pollinators.
Today\'s atmosphere is also the reason of honey health issues.