Thursday 11 February 2016

The Humble Bumble Bees- Do we really need them?

Almost everybody knows what a Honey Bee is- buzzing around the garden or park, helping the world go round. Now picture a world without them.

Some would think of a desolate, starving world. Others imagine life going on, just with less of some of our favourite fruits. But what would really happen? I'm going to ask some websites.
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."          -Albert Einstein
            
(Opinion 1) "Bumblebee Conservation Trust says: 
Bumblebees help pollinate many wildflowers, allowing them to reproduce. Without this pollination many of these plants would not produce seeds, resulting in declines in wildflowers. As these plants are often the basis of complex food chains, it is easy to imagine how other wildlife such as other insects, birds and mammals would all suffer if bees disappeared."

(Opinion 2) But Quora user @Akshay Singh Jamal says: 
"No.
There are an estimated 20,000 species of bees worldwide.
Honey bees comprise only a handful. Off the top of my head, the few  species that I can name excluding subpecies and hybrids are Apis  mellifera (the most common bee used by beekeepers), Apis cerana, Apis  dorsata and Apis florea. The notion  that we'd have an apocalypse due to the disappearance of a few species  is a little silly. What is concerning, however, is that pollinators in
general are declining worldwide."


Who do you agree with? (Personally,I agree with opinion 2.) Or do you have another idea? The suggestion box (Comment section) Is now open. I'll also put a poll up.

See Ya!
-UrbanJungle

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