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Pollinator Disaperence: Bees
By Mahaut Engerant
What is it?
Pollinator=> Insect fertilizing plants
Bees dying
[TEXT]"Pollination." Def. 1. Cambridge Dictionaries Online
[PICTURE] Hanlon, Michel. "A Bees-eye View: How Insects See Flowers Very Differently to Us."
What is it? CCD=> Colony Collapse disorder
Where=> Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan and USA
("Colony Collapse Disorder." Wikipedia)
Takano, Junji. "The Mystery of Vanishing Honeybees
What is being done?
Research for cause
Found Causes => Cell phone, pesticide, pollution, Parasites
Griffin The Hive Detective, Pg 36
What is being done?
12 million given by Gov. for research
Special units created to find a solution
Walsh, Bryan. "New Clues in the Mass Death of Bees ."
What is being done?
Experiments on bees
=> helps see what is Healthy for bees and what is Unhealthy
Griffin The Hive Detective, Pg 36
Is it effective?
Some cause found
Some Laws passed agaisnt the used of certain pesticide wich affect bees to much
Bees number is augmenting so It is rather effective
Walsh, Bryan. "New Clues in the Mass Death of Bees ."
Is it effective?
However, there is no proven ‘real’ cause for the disappearance of bees
And no definite cure was found
Walsh, Bryan. "New Clues in the Mass Death of Bees ."
Environmental Effects: Positive
Other species of insect thrive thanks to the disappearance of the bees
BritishCouncilIndia. Once there was a purple butterfly.
Environmental Effects: Negative
Plant disappearance
BritishCouncilIndia. Once there was a purple butterfly.
Environmental Effects: Negative
Landscape Change
Bethge, Philip. "German Cities for the Bees."
Environmental Effects: Negative
The bee Specie
Is getting lost
Bethge, Philip. "German Cities for the Bees."
Environmental Effects: Negative
Famine created by the lack of plant due to the little polinisation available
Bethge, Philip. "German Cities for the Bees."
Environmental Effects
Overall the effects are Negative
Bethge, Philip. "German Cities for the Bees."
Economic Effects: Positive
New pollinating Tech.
Manual Pollination means more employment
Economic Effects: Negative
Farmers loose crops (15 billion $)
Beekeepers cannot sell honey
[TEXT] Hilton, Teddy. "Scientist May have Discovered Reason Behind Bee Disappearance."
Economic Effects
Overall Negative
[TEXT] Hilton, Teddy. "Scientist May have Discovered Reason Behind Bee Disappearance."
Personal Opinion
Beekeeper in Family=> Bees are Dying
Conclusion
Could improve=> Cure needed
However, still effective=> 30% increase
[TEXT] Hilton, Teddy. "Scientist May have Discovered Reason Behind Bee Disappearance."
Thank-you for your Attention!