Save the bees

1. bees are in decline

1.1. usually lose bees in winter but are replaced they haven't been being replaced

2. pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming

3. humans at fault

4. the number of bee colonies per hectare has declined by 90 percent since 1962

5. Solution

5.1. Ban the most dangerous pesticides.

5.2. preserving wild habitat

5.3. Ecological farming takes advantage of the natural ecosystem services, water filtration, pollination, oxygen production, and disease and pest control

5.4. Plant native wildflowers

5.5. destroy your lawn (https://www.popsci.com/save-bees-need-to-know#page-7)

5.6. make a PSA/put up signs

5.7. https://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/ccd/ccd_actionplan.pdf

5.8. provide homes for bees (https://savebees.org/ )

6. Pesticides

6.1. Neonicotinoids destroy bees memory and navigation (https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/ask-mr-green/why-are-honeybees-dying)

7. habitat destruction

7.1. The global bees-decline is just a symptom of a failed industrial agricultural system based on ever increasing chemical and energy inputs (http://sos-bees.org/causes/)

8. Stats

8.1. honey bee decline from about 6 million hives in 1947 to 2.4 million hives in 2008, a 60 percent reduction https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/save-the-bees/

9. Help pollinate food

9.1. fruits nuts and vegs

9.2. 90% of worlds nurtition

10. Global Warming

10.1. plant and amnimals are moving west (https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/07/climate-change-killing-bumblebees/)

11. CCD

11.1. majority of worker bees in a colony disappear and leave behind a queen

11.2. CCD has dropped from roughly 60 percent of total hives lost in 2008 to 31.1 percent in 2013

11.3. https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder

12. poor nutrition

12.1. nutritional deficits are coming from habitat loss (https://phys.org/news/2016-04-bees-diversify-diet-nutritional-deficiencies.html)

13. air pollution

13.1. bees are finding it increasingly more difficult to locate flowers due to high levels of air pollution that interferes with the flower’s scent (https://www.thealternativedaily.com/air-pollution-killing-bees-it-does-matter/)

14. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2018-01-08-at-10.18.19-PM.png

15. How can I educate people about the bees and spread awareness about the extinction?