What will happen if the bee population decreases more?

Question

What will happen if the bee population decreases more?

Answer 1

You can kiss honey good bye and you can kiss pollination good bye and you'll see a decrease in flowers as the years go by..

We need bees in the world to make honey...

Answer 2

Bee population has a direct correlation with Environment pollution. Decline in bee population is usually due to following reasons.

1. Use of Insecticides that are transported to nectar during flowering stages (Eg.Monocrotophos)

2. Illegal and uncontrolled use of contact insecticides by way of helicopter spraying (Eg.Endosulfan)

3. Increase in temperature (Usually in tropical and desert climates)

4. Deadly viral diseases spread ( low resistance by Indian bees and high resistance in Italian bees)

5. Use of GM crops which has poisionous genes like Bt or likewise.

There are 1000 bee species in France alone and 20,000 world wide. So drastic reduction of bees, especially wild species is a clear indication that we have polluted our nature seriously. This not only reduces Honey availablity, but also a threat to Our very existance .

Answer 3

The cost of foods available will go up as the choice of foods will go down. In the worst case scenario we will be forced to pay a huge amount for a bland diet. This doesn't touch on the socialogical issues, though, of a world food shortage, hungry people, crime, and all the implications of cause and effect of feeding all the people in a world already having problems.

Answer 4

The price of food will continue to rise.  You may also not be able to find some food items, or find them to be very limited, because there were not enough commercial bee hives to pollinated the crops.

The only bees that are having the problem are the commercial bee hives that are trasported by trucks long distances, sometimes over many states, and set up for short times to pollinated commercial crops.

Hives that stay in place, are organic, or are owned by "backyard" beekeepers are doing just fine.  So are the native bees.

It is only the commercial bees that are transported all over the place, are being exposed the the toxic GMO crops, and have been raised to be of unusual size, that are the bees which are dying.

Many GMO crops now contain insecticides manufactured by the plant itself.  This is a big reason the bees are dying.  (But don't worry, just because the GMO crops kill bees and insects we humans are assured by the manufactures of these seeds that they are perfectly safe to consume.)

The size of an adult bee is determined by the size of the hole it grows up in as a pupa.  Commercial bee keepers have pushed the size of the adult bees, by increasing the size of the pre-made holes the queen lays the eggs in.  They have forced the bees to be 50% bigger than they would be naturally.

Transporting bees confused the heck out of the hives.  How confused would you be if you went to sleep in you house by a raspberry field in Washington, and two days latter woke up in an apricot orchard in California?  Bees fly with the orientation of the sun, and magnetic fields of the earth.  Move them that far, and all is messed up for several days to several weeks.

Moving them all over is also exposing them to all kinds of oil based chemicals that are sprayed on crops, orchards and fields.

Price of food will go up....a lot!  But don't worry, bees are not going to die out.

Support your local small farmers, purchase from them.  They are not using commercial bees.

~Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Answer 5

Our local beekeepers have had to replace their colonies several times during my lifetime. The problem with this seems to be that we are getting bees that are closely related to those that have recently died out. In fact we are seeing bees all over the continent that are closely related, all susceptible to the same diseases.

None of the GM crops grown in this area have any insecticidal properties, and very little use of insecticides is done here... we have a lot of wasps, spiders, and ladybugs. Some suspicion that wasps and spiders may be a problem.

Our population of non-domesticated bees has varied too. Fortunately they have not varied in synch with the hived bees.

We have heard opinions that large numbers of hives close together appear to be involved in loss of colonies.

We can not welcome a major decline in hive populations as they give us the ability to have bees without providing for alternate crops to feed them when main crops are not flowering.

Answer 6

The bees will all go KAPUT. (seriously!!!!)