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What is the Food Chain?

Bees in the Food Chain

The food chain is the link, which starts at producers to consumers, prey, predators, and decomposers. It describes which organism eats whom.

How is life on earth affected by it?

Bees are pollinators, They ensure the fertilization of the flowering plant species whose pollen they feed on. Resulting in the production of seeds and fruits.

They provide pollination to fruit and vegetable crops.

Bees pollinate 80 percent of our flowering crops, which constitute one-third of everything we eat, such as: apples, pears, peaches, almonds, okra, alfalfa, beans, berries, broccoli, cauliflower, cantaloupes, watermelons, cabbages, peppers, eggplants, tomatoes, citrus fruits, and grapes.

The problem with Bees

Bee researchers first reported massive die-offs back in the 1990s.

Bees were not put into light until around 2013, when bees were suffering from CCD (colony collapse disorder)

Since 2013, there has been a 30% reduction in bee population every winter.

Where is it?

Most species have historically been cultured or at least exploited for honey and beeswax by humans.

The problem with Bees Cont.

The primary drivers of honeybee loss

are the varroa mite, pesticides, and poor nutrition.

The varroa,being the biggest threat, attach to a honeybee’s body and suck its blood, which kills many bees and spreads disease to others.

Solutions

To fill the nutrition gap, bee keepers give their wares pollen supplements.

EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) recommends that we ban pesticides to help bee population increase.

Grow bee friendly plants, donate to non-profit

organizations that dedicate to saving bees.

Bee friendly flowers

The Food Chain: Bees

Brenda Mahoney

Geography 110 Sec. 07

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