06-27-2022, 07:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2022, 07:31 AM by The Apprentice.)
Modern farming methods are to blame for the death of billions of insects not only bees, however we have to look at what types of bees are most effected.
The wild varieties like bunble bees are the ones most effected, these are not used to the many chemicals we use in bee farming, where as the honey bee is regularly treated with an array of different potions to control diseases carried by the biggest killer know as Varroa Destructor.
The Varroa Destructor infects all honey bee colonies throughout Europe and the rest of the bee farming paradigm except a small exception like Australia who have yet to be in contact with these tiny crab like pests.
As any bee keeper or farmer will tell you, many of the mono crops like corn are not pollinated by honey or other bees, they are wind pollinated, what is the greatest enemy are insecticides, if the farmer sprays his fields whilst the bees are in the crop they will be effected by the chemicals.
For an in depth sysnopsis of one of the biggest threats to all bees click the link below.
https://entomologytoday.org/2016/04/27/v...y-thought/
More on the varroa mite here,
https://entomologytoday.org/2019/02/21/i...iscovered/
My own bees were effected by these little beasts and I also lost a colony or two to them.
To answer the question in general terms is no, we would not be in danger if bees became extinct, there are millions of other insects that pollinate crops and flowers.
It would make some operators more difficult to manage, especially the large mono operations like fruit and nut growers but we have many foods that could fill the gapsuntil a more natural balance was realised.
This is a subjet often surrounded by doom and gloom but if you do your own homework you will soon learn that it is mans modern farming methods that need to be changed to be more in balance with nature instead.
Like the rat flee to the deadly plauge, the rabbit flee to Myxomatosis, and the Varroa Destructor to the honey and other bees and the diseases they carry all is relatable by often the unseen which nobody ever mentions.
Myxomatosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis
The wild varieties like bunble bees are the ones most effected, these are not used to the many chemicals we use in bee farming, where as the honey bee is regularly treated with an array of different potions to control diseases carried by the biggest killer know as Varroa Destructor.
The Varroa Destructor infects all honey bee colonies throughout Europe and the rest of the bee farming paradigm except a small exception like Australia who have yet to be in contact with these tiny crab like pests.
As any bee keeper or farmer will tell you, many of the mono crops like corn are not pollinated by honey or other bees, they are wind pollinated, what is the greatest enemy are insecticides, if the farmer sprays his fields whilst the bees are in the crop they will be effected by the chemicals.
For an in depth sysnopsis of one of the biggest threats to all bees click the link below.
https://entomologytoday.org/2016/04/27/v...y-thought/
More on the varroa mite here,
https://entomologytoday.org/2019/02/21/i...iscovered/
My own bees were effected by these little beasts and I also lost a colony or two to them.
(06-06-2018, 11:23 AM)awakened53 Wrote: Will the extinction of Bees really mean the end of Humanity?
https://www.naturalblaze.com/2018/06/ext...anity.html
To answer the question in general terms is no, we would not be in danger if bees became extinct, there are millions of other insects that pollinate crops and flowers.
It would make some operators more difficult to manage, especially the large mono operations like fruit and nut growers but we have many foods that could fill the gapsuntil a more natural balance was realised.
This is a subjet often surrounded by doom and gloom but if you do your own homework you will soon learn that it is mans modern farming methods that need to be changed to be more in balance with nature instead.
Like the rat flee to the deadly plauge, the rabbit flee to Myxomatosis, and the Varroa Destructor to the honey and other bees and the diseases they carry all is relatable by often the unseen which nobody ever mentions.
Myxomatosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis