Bees can be found everywhere, so why does the United Nations say that humanity is facing a bee crisi

A worker bee's daily routine is to leave the nest in search of sweet nectar and bring it back to make honey for the colony, a process that continues day in and day out for millions of years. However, since 2006, there has been a mysterious phenomenon of bees disappearing in large numbers around the world. In a hive, the vast majority of worker bees are nowhere to be found, leaving only larvae, a small number of nursery, and a queen bee.

There are no bees alive, no corpses when they die", as if they had evaporated from the world. This is all too unusual: the number of natural deaths of worker bees over a period of time is relatively small and stable; After the worker bee dies in the hive, the corpse will be carried outside the nest by the living worker bee and scattered nearby. In general, worker bees do not abandon the queen bee and young bees, which deviates from the social principle of social bees, because without the support of worker bees, the whole colony will soon be "wiped out".

The phenomenon of bee disappearance is gradually spreading around the world like a plague, and news of a large number of bee colonies disappearing or dying has been reported on all five continents, and the situation is getting worse:

What does it have to do with us? Some people may ask, what does the bee thing have to do with people? A lot at stake!

First of all, the survival of bees affects the food problem of human beings. Bees are responsible for about 30% of the world's crops pollinated by insect vectors. In the pollination process of a bee, its furry body can pick up 500,750,000 pollen, giving plants the opportunity to fully fertilize and thus play a huge role in improving the yield and quality of food crops.

Without bees, the yield of many crops will plummet, and there will even be a risk of crop failure. As the population continues to skyrocket, the disappearance of bees will put humanity facing severe famine! At the same time, bees create enormous economic value.

It is estimated that bee pollination can create $15 billion in value for the United States each year, not only for honey production, but also for the added value of crops in terms of yield and quality as a result of bee pollination. China's Ministry of Agriculture began to test and promote bee pollination technology (at present, a total of 24 demonstration areas in the country participated in the demonstration and promotion of bee pollination, involving rape, sunflower, soybean, apple, pear, jujube, cherry and other 12 kinds of plants, demonstration and promotion area of more than 1 million mu), the test results show that most crops have a significant effect on increasing yield, fruit trees, strawberries and other crops have increased their income by more than 5,000 yuan per mu, and facility crops have saved more than 10 people per mu.

Second, if bees become extinct, more species will disappear with them. Ecosystems are interlinked, and any link missing will cause immeasurable damage to the whole. The bee is particularly critical because of its co-evolutionary effect with plants to maximize species diversity.

If bees disappear, many species will disappear with them. For example, almonds, which are highly dependent on insect pollination, will hardly bear fruit without pollinating insects such as bees. Many rare and endangered plants can only rely on specific bees to help pollinate.

Bees are not ubiquitous and are hardly seen in big cities. In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer bees in rural areas. As various habitats are destroyed and flowers and plants are gradually decreasing, there are fewer bees. That's why the United Nations said that there will be fewer and fewer bees in the future.

Did you know that there is such a group? They are 365 days a year, and they are bees.

They live for flowers and die for flowers. Because of this epidemic, it has also brought them a huge disaster in Changsui Mountain. Usually beekeepers need to bring bees with them.

From east to west, from south to north, they need to chase every flowering period, they need to get honey to be picked on time during the best flowering period, spring, summer and autumn, and in winter they need to go to the flower fields in Yunnan, but because of this epidemic they are trapped in place, the epidemic is closed, and they can't enter Yunnan. In just a few days, the flower fields of the tribe were sprayed with pesticides and acaricides, all the bees were poisoned, and the once vibrant beehives became hell overnight. Only a handful of survivors rely on the white sugar that beekeepers buy back with ** to stay alive, and this epidemic is caused by human greed for wild meat, and we have brought disaster not only to everyone, but also to animals.

Some well-known prophecies say that if bees disappear from the earth, humans will not live for four years, bees are to sustain life on the earth, bees will be stained with a lot of pollen after collecting honey, and they will be fertilized when they fly to another female flower, and the bees will maintain the earth's ecosystem in this way.

Doesn't everyone think it's outrageous? Many scientists have found that the number of bees in the world is decreasing dramatically, and if the bees disappear from the earth, the food we humans usually eat will be greatly reduced, or even unable to provide them normally, which is the harm caused by human bad behavior to nature, and this serious consequence will have a negative effect on human beings.

It may be like in "The Wandering Earth", it is nothing more than a forest fire, a drought, the extinction of a species, the disappearance of a city, until the catastrophe is relevant to everyone. Human beings coexist with nature, and human beings should respect and protect nature. (ง

What would happen without bees.

How long would humans have existed without bees? Albert Einstein once predicted: "If the bee disappears from the inner world, the human face."

There will only be 4 years left in the class! "Because, out of the 1,330 crops used by humans, more than 1,000 need to be pollinated by bees. If there are too few bees, how much grain, cotton, oil, melons and fruits will people say goodbye to?

The French journal Science and Life published an article entitled "Bee Decline, Inducing Ecosystem Upheaval". The article says that the sharp decline in the number of bee colonies could trigger a break in the biological chain. Chinese experts also said that Chinese honey bees have a balancing effect on China's ecology, especially on the population in alpine mountainous areas.

In the absence of bees, the pollination of plants in alpine mountains is affected, and the transformation from a mixed forest with many plant species to a monotonous pine and fir forest. The decline in plant diversity will lead to a decrease in the number of insect species that depend on plants for survival, further reducing the number of birds and other ......

Think about it, what a sad prospect this is.

Everyone knows that bees help pollinate plants, but few know that more than 75% of the planet's crop varieties rely on pollination to some extent to increase yields. On the one hand, artificial intelligence cannot completely replace such a huge amount of pollination, and on the other hand, bees are important participants in animal pollination. Therefore,Once the bees disappear, it can have a very big impact on human life.

Maybe many people can't understand, why do human beings want to "mediocrity disturb themselves"? Now that bees are still everywhere, why do you always mention the extinction of bees? In fact, the survival of bees has been seriously threatened by a variety of factors, such as climate change, intensive agricultural production, indiscriminate use of pesticides, destruction of biodiversity and environmental pollution.

For example, a single farming pattern can lead to less food for bees, while the use of pesticides can damage the nervous system of bees and cause them to lose their way. Even if human behaviour is not only affecting the survival of bees, but the populations of other pollinators have also declined over the past few decades. Nowadays, people can still see bees, but it is difficult to see bee colonies, how big is this change reflected in the data?

In 2017, the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a study result: "It was found that in the last 10 years, the number of bees in China has decreased by about 10%." "It may not be objective to look at the decline of bees in China alone, but there are other countries around the world that have conducted surveys.

More serious than the decline in numbers is the extinction of bee species. According to the German Beekeeping Association, more than 300 of Germany's 560 bee species are at risk of extinction.

Bees are so important to humans, but they have not been protected as they should be, what kind of threat will humans face if bees disappear?

The first is the issue of food security。The United Nations has been concerned about this obscure and toiling creature for a long time, and the threat to bees is growing from climate change and modern agriculture. In 2018, on the occasion of the first World Bee Day, FAO noted the dire situation:

Without bees and other pollinators, agricultural products such as coffee, apples, almonds, tomatoes and cocoa will be virtually wiped out. At that time, people had to rely on food crops such as rice, corn and potatoes, which in turn exacerbated the imbalance of the diet.

In fact, in addition to diet, honey and royal jelly produced by bees are also widely used in modern and traditional medicine. They can pollinate medicinal plants; The survival of bees is also about the work of millions of people, including farm operations, commerce, and human activities. The enormous agricultural and economic benefits generated by bees have made them indispensable to human life, and it is time to put the protection of bees on the agenda. So how can human beings protect bees from themselves and from individuals?

Protecting bees is not a whim, but there are more and more works reflecting the danger faced by bees, and more and more related public welfare activities are being carried out, hoping that one day humans can see swarms of bees flying among the flowers on the roadside.

If all the bees on the planet were to disappear, the earth's ecosystems would have a big impact. For example, we can't see a lot of bright flowers, we can't eat a lot of fruits.

There will definitely be, and spreading pollen will greatly reduce efficiency, will reduce organic matter.

The extinction of any one organism brings about the breaking of a biological chain that affects the entire biosphere.

It can have an impact on our lives and our ability to appreciate beauty.

Actually, it's nothing, after all, bees are not something we must lose.

It shouldn't be, I don't feel like there's a big change, maybe I love honey, I don't eat it.

It will definitely have an impact on people's lives, and people will not be able to drink wild honey in the future.

This should have a little bit of an impact, such as honey or something.

Of course, the absence of any one species will affect the others.

The ecosystem will have a big impact. For example, we can't see a lot of bright flowers, we can't eat a lot of fruits.

More than 100,000 plant species will become extinct. People only live for 4 years.

Trivia: What would your life be like without bees?

It is equivalent to one less ingredient for human beings.