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!