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1.the resource is about saving the bee,s

2 I think its not a credible source because its from green peace and i have never heard of their website

3 yes it would because it has multiple reasons of how to save the bees.

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Honey bees - wild and domestic - perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Grains are primarily pollinated by the wind, but fruits, nuts and vegetables are pollinated by bees. Seventy out of the top 100 human food crops - which supply about 90 percent of the world's nutrition - are pollinated by bees.

"In the last four years, the chemical industry has spent $11.2 million on a PR initiative to say it's not their fault, so we know whose fault it is."
Jon Cooksey, writer, director, How to Boil a Frog.

What's Killing the Bees - and Why It Matters

Worldwide bee colony collapse is not as big a mystery as the chemical industry claims.

The systemic nature of the problem makes it complex, but not impenetrable. Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors-pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. The bottom line is that we know humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss.

Worker bees (females) live about six weeks in summer and several months in the winter. Colonies produce new worker bees continuously during the spring and summer, and then reproduction slows during the winter. Typically, a bee hive or colony will decline by 5-10 percent over the winter, and replace those lost bees in the spring. In a bad year, a bee colony might lose 15-20 percent of its bees.

In the U.S., winter losses have commonly reached 30-50 percent, in some cases more. In 2006, David Hackenberg - a bee keeper for 42 years - reported a 90 percent die-off among his 3,000 hives. U.S. National Agricultural Statistics show a honey bee decline from about 6 million hives in 1947 to 2.4 million hives in 2008, a 60 percent reduction.

The number of working bee colonies per hectare provides a critical metric of crop health. In the U.S. - among crops that require bee pollination - the number of bee colonies per hectare has declined by 90 percent since 1962. The bees cannot keep pace with the winter die-off rates and habitat loss.

Pesticides and Bees

Biologists have found more than 150 different chemical residues in bee pollen, a deadly "pesticide cocktail" according to University of California apiculturist Eric Mussen. The chemical companies Bayer, Syngenta, BASF, Dow, DuPont and Monsanto shrug their shoulders at the systemic complexity, as if the mystery were too complicated. They advocate no change in pesticide policy. After all, selling poisons to the world's farmers is profitable.

Furthermore, wild bee habitat shrinks every year as industrial agribusiness converts grasslands and forest into mono-culture farms, which are then contaminated with pesticides. To reverse the world bee decline, we need to fix our dysfunctional and destructive agricultural system.

Solutions That Save the Bees

Common sense actions can restore and protect the world's bees. Here's a strong start:

1. Ban the seven most dangerous pesticides.

2. Protect pollinator health by preserving wild habitat.

3. Restore ecological agriculture.

Ecological farming is the overarching new policy trend that will stabilize human food production, preserve wild habitats, and protect the bees. The nation of Bhutan has led the world in adopting a 100 percent organic farming policy. Mexico has banned genetically modified corn to protect its native corn varieties. Eight European countries have banned genetically modified crops and Hungary has burned more than 1,000 acres of corn contaminated with genetically modified varieties. In India, scientist Vandana Shiva and a network of small farmers have built an organic farming resistance to industrial agriculture over two decades.

Ecological, organic farming is nothing new. It is the way most farming has been done throughout human history. Ecological farming resists insect damage by avoiding large monocrops and preserving ecosystem diversity. Ecological farming restores soil nutrients with natural composting systems, avoids soil loss from wind and water erosion, and avoids pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

By restoring bee populations and healthier bees, ecological agriculture improves pollination, which in turn improves crop yields. Ecological farming takes advantage of the natural ecosystem services, water filtration, pollination, oxygen production, and disease and pest control.

Organic farmers have advocated better research and funding by industry, government, farmers, and the public to develop organic farming techniques, improve food production, and maintain ecological health. The revolution in farming would promote equitable diets around the world and support crops primarily for human consumption, avoiding crops for animal food and biofuels.

What the U.S. Can Learn From Europe About Saving the Bees

In Europe, Asia and South America, the annual bee die-off lags behind the U.S. decline, but the trend is clear and the response has been more appropriate. In Europe, Rabobank reported that annual European die-offs have reached 30-35 percent and that the colonies-per-hectare count is down 25 percent.

A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientific report determined that three widely used pesticides - nicotine-based clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiametoxam - pose "high acute risks" for bees. The nicotinoid pesticides-used in soils, on foliage, and embedded in seeds-persist at the core of the toxic pesticide cocktail found in bee hives.

A Greenpeace scientific report identifies seven priority bee-killer pesticides-including the three nicotine culprits-plus clorpyriphos, cypermethrin, deltamethrin, and fipronil. The three neonicotinoids act on insect nervous systems. They accumulate in individual bees and within entire colonies, including the honey that bees feed to infant larvae. Bees that do not die outright, experience sub-lethal systemic effects, development defects, weakness, and loss of orientation. The die-off leaves fewer bees and weaker bees, who must work harder to produce honey in depleted wild habitats. These conditions create the nightmare formula for bee colony collapse.

Bayer makes and markets imidacloprid and clothianidin; Syngenta produces thiamethoxam. In 2009, the world market for these three toxins reached more than $2 billion. Syngenta, Bayer, Dow, Monsanto, and DuPont control nearly 100% of the world market for genetically modified pesticides, plants and seeds.

In 2012, a German court criminally charged Syngenta with perjury for concealing its own report showing that its genetically modified corn had killed livestock. In the U.S., the company paid out $105 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for contaminating the drinking water for over 50 million citizens with its "gender-bending" herbicide Atrazine. Now, these corporate polluters are waging multi-million-euro campaigns to deny responsibility for bee colony collapse.

In May, the European Commission responded, adopting a two-year ban on the three necotinoid pesticides, and later added the non-neonicotinoid fibronil. Scientists will use the two years to assess the recovery rate of the bees and a longer-term ban on these and other pesticides.

Meanwhile, the U.S. dithers and supports the corporations that produce and market the deadly pesticides. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to allow the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, in spite of a U.S. Department of Agriculture report warning about the dangers of the bee colony collapse.

Also in 2014, President Obama signed the now infamous "Monsanto Protection Act" - written by Monsanto lobbyists - which gives biotech companies immunity in federal U.S. courts from damages to people and the environment caused by their commercial compounds.

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Honey bees - wild and domestic - perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Grains are primarily pollinated by the wind, but fruits, nuts and vegetables are pollinated by bees.

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1.The resource is about farmers aren't killing Honey Bees

2. Its not very credible because it's from a blog from someones opinion.

3. No because its not true.

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Bees are in the news, but for all the wrong reasons-mainly, dire tales of disappearing bees threatening a third of our food supply. Time Magazine, opting for sensationalism over accuracy, said we were headed toward " A world without bees," with an online video explaining, "Why bees are going extinct." They called it the " beepocalypse " and blamed it all on modern agricultural technologies, urging immediate and aggressive action before it's too late.

This would be scary stuff indeed-if it were true. But like so many overly simplistic, sky-is-falling claims, these predictions are misleading and false. Activist groups like Loonies of the Earth-sorry, I mean Friends of the Earth---and the Pesticide Action Network work tirelessly to provide the media a steady stream of suitable doom-and-gloom material that they and other groups then use for "save the bees" fundraising opportunities.

Bees are popular, even iconic. The public naturally wants them to survive, but it simply isn't true that honeybees are about to disappear--so they don't need "saving." The truth about the bees turns out to be far more complex, and far more interesting, than the alarmist headlines suggest.
1. There are billions more bees than a decade ago
In 2015, the U.S. Department of Agriculture counted 2,660,000 million honeybee colonies across the United States. A decade earlier, in 2004, there were 2,556,000 honeybee colonies. That's a gain of 104,000 colonies, not a loss. At around 50,000 bees per colony, that's an increase of five billion honeybees in the United States.

The overall honeybee numbers in the United States have stayed steady at about 2.5 million colonies for the last two decades, dipping slightly when the mysterious "colony collapse disorder" (CCD) hit in 2006, then rebounded at a healthy clip and actually reached a 20-year high in 2014. Europe and Canada have experienced significant increases in their honeybee populations as well, and worldwide, there are 30 million more hives today than in 1961, an increase of about 60%. That means there about 1.5 trillion more bees buzzing around today than there were 50 years ago. There simply is no bee-pocalypse and never was.

The way thousands of reporters and editors of supposedly serious publications were able to turn a massive expansion of bee populations into a cataclysmic near-extinction event is, well, beyond bee-lief.
2. Bees are always dying-and reproducing--at an "alarming" rate
Not so long ago, amusing photos spread across the Internet adorned with the phrase, "bees are dying globally at an alarming rate." The first of these memes depicted Eli Manning, the New York Giants quarterback, purportedly pondering unhappily the fate of the pollinators. While it's true that beekeepers in the U.S. are having increasing trouble keeping their hives healthy, and that hive losses have been elevated in recent years, if it weren't a spoof, I'd suggest that Manning should worry less about bees being blitzed and more about the adequacy of his own offensive line. High losses, while they may create economic hardship for some beekeepers, don't spell catastrophe. That's because bees also reproduce "at an alarming rate," or at least, very, very quickly.

Unlike the animals we tend to be more familiar with, honeybees have an exceptionally short lifespan--about six weeks. It is shorter during warm weather months and in perennially warm climates where honeybees never go into winter hibernation, or "cluster." Many generations of honeybees are born and die within any given year, so rapid rises and falls in population numbers within any given year are common.

Recently, the Bee Informed Partnership-which conducts an annual survey of U.S. beekeepers-decided to add the warm weather losses to the traditional count of overwinter losses to come up with the startling announcement that, "Beekeepers lost 41 percent of Bees in 2015-2016."

Bee Informed is funded by USDA, and this change in reporting was a sure-fire way to heighten concern and therefore increase funding dollars for the U.S. government (pardon my cynicism), but it did little to enlighten anyone as to what was really going on with bees. Not surprisingly, most journalists reported this as if our entire bee population was on the verge of being wiped out in the space of a few years. A May CBS News headline, for example, read, "Death rate for honeybees takes turn for the worse." As usual in "if it bleeds, it leads" journalism, there was no mention that even with these cataclysmic-sounding losses, the U.S. bee population was still very near a two-decade high.
3. Bees are livestock, just like cattle
Activists spread hysteria about dying honeybees because it advances their political aims. They want the public to think the happy little bees we see buzzing about our gardens are about to draw their final breath, and that their imminent disappearance will threaten the world's ability to feed itself. The exact opposite of this apocalyptic theory is true: Agricultural production guarantees steady honeybee numbers because of the potent effects of market forces.

The honeybee is a domesticated species, imported from Europe. Like cattle and other livestock, bees are raised in the numbers needed, in this case to pollinate agricultural crops. Human intervention is the driving force underlying their population numbers. Certainly, hives can experience severe health problems, usually driven by disease caused by mites and viruses, and those hives can collapse or die.

The rest of the story, however, is that given the demand for bees, beekeepers adapt to losses by "splitting" a healthy hive to grow more bees to suit their needs. One of the most basic beekeeping skills is to divide an existing colony and introduce (or grow) a new queen for the "new" hive. The new queen, which can be ordered online for as little as $25, will lay enough eggs-about 2,000 a day-so that what was once a single hive becomes two hives. With a little help from its human friends, nature is resilient.

Honeybee numbers fluctuate with beekeepers' expectations about market conditions, including domestic and overseas demand for specific types of honey or other bee byproducts.
4. Crop pesticides aren't killing honeybees
Activists' political goal is to convince regulators and lawmakers to ban the most popular agricultural chemicals, especially a class of insecticides called neonicotinoids, or neonics for short. They have had some success in doing so by blaming the disappearance of honeybees, which isn't actually happening, on neonics. This is a particularly obnoxious attack since modern crop protection products such as neonics are actually designed to target harmful pests while, when used according to the instructions on the label, keeping beneficial insects like honeybees as safe as possible. There are several ways we know neonicotinoids aren't killing bees.

First of all, bees aren't attracted to the most popular U.S. crops like corn, rice, soybean and wheat, which account for the majority of neonic usage. Honeybees would come into contact with neonics used on these crops only if beekeepers place their colonies close to fields that are about to be planted so that dust from the planting machines might drift and spread to the hive. This is a rather simple problem to fix, by ensuring beekeepers and farmers talk to one another so they know when to keep the bees away.

Second, 98% of the time, neonics aren't sprayed on crops at all but are used as seed treatments. This high-tech approach is what makes the product friendly to bees and other non-target organisms while still being lethal to biting insects that attack plants at the earliest stage, when they are most vulnerable. Bees forage much later, on nectar and pollen from flowers. By the time bee-attracting, neonic- seed-treated crops reach the flowering stage, the amount of neonics expressed in crop pollen (and, for crops that produce it, nectar) is extremely low. A small amount of the pesticide is applied to the seed, and as the plant grows, the chemical becomes more and more diluted, to the point that it has no significant effect on bees.

That's why bees positively thrive in Canada's extensive canola fields, which are almost 100% grown from seeds treated with neonicotinoids. A good account of the Canadian experience can be found in the blog, " Alberta Buzzing," by Lee Townsend, one of Alberta's most successful beekeepers. Like other beekeepers in Alberta, he loves neonics because they keep the canola healthy, and canola produces a particularly tasty brand of honey.

There's more evidence. Since neonics arrived on the scene in the mid-1990's, honeybee hive numbers have climbed. Bee populations fell before neonics were introduced. That was due in large part to the loss of small farms, with their individual beehives, after World War II, and the devastation wrought by the Varroa destructor mite, which hit the U.S. in the mid-1980's and which bee scientists recognize is the chief cause of bee health problems.

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The Buzz: Six Reasons Not To Worry About The Bees

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Bees are in the news, but for all the wrong reasons-mainly, dire tales of disappearing bees threatening a third of our food supply. Time Magazine, opting for sensationalism over accuracy, said we were headed toward " A world without bees," with an online video explaining, "Why bees are going extinct."

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1. The resource is about the U.S. putting Bees on the endangered species list for the first time.

2. This resource is credible because its telling us why the Bees are on the list

3. Yes it would be a good resource for a research paper because it will give you information about why they ended up on the list.

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated the rusty patched bumblebee an endangered species - the first such designation for a bumblebee and for a bee species in the continental U.S.

The protected status, which goes into effect on Feb. 10, includes requirements for federal protections and the development of a recovery plan. It also means that states with habitats for this species are eligible for federal funds.

"Today's Endangered Species listing is the best-and probably last-hope for the recovery of the rusty patched bumble bee," NRDC Senior Attorney Rebecca Riley said in a statement from the Xerces Society, which advocates for invertebrates. "Bumble bees are dying off, vanishing from our farms, gardens, and parks, where they were once found in great numbers."

Large parts of the Eastern and Midwestern United States were once crawling with these bees, Bombus affinis, but the bees have suffered a dramatic decline in the last two decades due to habitat loss and degradation, along with pathogens and pesticides.

Indeed, the bee was found in 31 states and Canadian provinces before the mid- to late-1990s, according to the final rule published in the Federal Register. But since 2000, it has been reported in only 13 states and Ontario, Canada. It has seen an 88 percent decline in the number of populations and an 87 percent loss in the amount of territory it inhabits.

This means the species is vulnerable to extinction, the rule says, even without further habitat loss or insecticide exposure. Canada designated the species as endangered in 2012.

The bees live in large colonies that can be made up of 1,000 individual workers. All types of the species have black heads, the rule states, "but only workers and males have a rusty reddish patch centrally located on the abdomen."

Habitat degradation may be particularly harmful to these bees because of their feeding habits, as described in the rule:

"The rusty patched bumble bee is one of the first bumble bees to emerge early in the spring and the last to go into hibernation, so to meet its nutritional needs, the species requires a constant and diverse supply of blooming flowers."

Last October, the Fish and Wildlife Service gave endangered status to seven species of yellow-faced bees native to Hawaii, the first time any U.S. bees received this kind of protection.

Pollinator decline is a global trend. A recent major global assessment sponsored by the U.N. suggested that about 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species are facing extinction. Since some 75 percent of food crops rely at least partially on pollinators, that raises serious concerns about the future of the global food supply.

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U.S. Puts Bumblebee On The Endangered Species List For 1st Time

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated the rusty patched bumblebee an endangered species - the first such designation for a bumblebee and for a bee species in the continental U.S. The protected status, which goes into effect on Feb. 10, includes requirements for federal protections and the development of a recovery plan.

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50 Ways to Save the Honey Bees (and Change the World)

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50 Ways to Save the Honey Bees (and Change the World) by J. Scott Donahue - Help save the bees - and the world - with these simple and considerate ways! For...

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A world without bees would be much less colourful, with fewer plants and flowers. But that's not all -- food would be in much shorter supply, and available in much less variety. While the media focuses on colony-collapse disorder and the threats to honey bees specifically, the real danger is much greater: all bees are at risk.

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1. The resource is about what causing Honey Bees to be endangered.

2. This resource is credible because it's telling us how the Honey Bees are endangered.

3. Yes it would be a good resource for a research paper because it tells us what is endangering the Honey Bees.

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Beekeepers first began losing their hives in 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Between 2007 and 2013, more than 10 million bee hives have died off in North America. With beekeepers facing significant financial losses and the crop pollination we depend on for food being threatened by the declining bee numbers, scientists studied the problem and identified a complex culprit called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Scientists have identified several possible factors, including agricultural chemicals, diseases, parasites and stress. The most recent evidence suggests a combination of these factors may be the cause of CCD.

Agricultural Chemicals

Although the cause of the bee loss has been labeled, researchers are still unclear what causes Colony Collapse Disorder. Scientists have identified several possible factors, including pesticides, diseases, parasites, environmental issues and management stress. Pesticides known as neonicotinoids were banned in Europe because of their possible link to CCD. Researchers believe the chemical interferes with the bee's memory and sensory abilities, making them unable to look for food. A 2013 study led by Jeffrey S. Petitis from the USDA's bee research laboratory published in the Public Library of Science (PLOS) found that honey bees that consumed certain types of fungicides, such as those used in apple orchards, were more likely to become infected by a pathogen that some researchers think causes CCD.

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What Are the Causes of Endangered Honey Bees?

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Beekeepers first began losing their hives in 2006, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Between 2007 and 2013, more than 10 million bee hives have died off in North America. With beekeepers facing significant financial losses and the crop pollination we depend on for food being threatened by the declining ...

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We can save the bees together: Sarah Red-Laird at TEDxBend

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Save the Bees | Greenpeace | Best Video Ever