Plight of the Bees by Amber Christensen

Plight of the Bees

Throughout the world there are many sacred animals to a variety of human cultures. One animal, humans tend to not recognize as being important is a bee. Bees are considered to only be known as producing honey and pollinating crops. Recently in the past decade, the number of bees have dramatically decreased and no one has really noticed. I think in order for everyone to take action and pay attention to this dramatic decline in bees is, there would need to be a vast decrease in the production of crops and the loss of honey.  

One reason I believe that its going to take a dramatic loss in crops for people to notice how important bees are is because if we lose a fair amount of our commonly consumed crops, people would notice that its due to the bees not pollinating the crops for them to actually grow. Once there is a loss of the crops, people will look towards what is the reason behind to be able to fix this issue. Since farmers do not control the main reason behind how crops grow, people will start to pay attention to bees and their purpose of helping the production of plants.

My second reason behind my idea that it would take a mass amount of the loss of crops is that if bees were to be completely extinct, all the plants that bees pollinate would die also and that would result in less oxygen because plants create oxygen. The reason that’s important is because humans need oxygen to live off of.

My final reason it is important for people to start looking at bees and how important they are including the deduction of crops is that not only do they pollinate plants but produce honeycombs. Humans take those honeycombs to produce honey which is very commonly used food item throughout. Many ways we use honey besides consuming it as is, but we also use it as a natural sweetener for tea or to create a glaze for meat. If bees were to completely die off, humans would wake up and see that honey is a key product in their daily diet which will help them see how important bees are.

This is why I believe its going to take a large decline in crops and honey in order for humans to “wake up” and see how important bees truly are. Once it happens, humans will start to take action in help saving bees from extinction.