It has been well documented that the earth's food supply is essentially dependent on the work of bees. Honeybees are responsible for pollinating most cash food crops, from tomatoes to oranges and everything in between, and the drop in population leaves the world's growers in a bind with estimated crop losses at $15 million in the US alone. Besides pollinating the fruits and vegetables that people eat, bees also pollinate the food crops grown for animal use, such as corn and grains fed to cattle. Domesticated bees (raised by beekeepers) are being used in growing numbers and certainly help ease the problem of the decline in numbers of wild bees, but farmers must pay beekeepers for the use of their hives, which adds one more expense to a business that already operates on razor-thin profit margins, and to the cost of groceries.
It is also becoming a logistical problem as the population worldwide continues to grow, requiring more land go under the till for production of food. There is already too much land under cultivation for the existing domesticated hives to pollinate. Though there is not much the average person is able to do to help, one thing we can do is to behave eco-responsibly around native and domesticated bees. Most will not likely sting you if left alone, and if a hive is located in an undesirable location, get in touch with an eco-responsible bee removal service as opposed to an exterminator to deal with the problem for you.
Although, as stated above the underlying cause for the decrease in population has yet to be positively established, there are several probable culprits that experts believe are causing the problem. The increased use of pesticides is first on the list, as increasing amounts of these have been found in hives, honeycombs, and in dead bees. Some beekeepers, in fact, are starting keep their bees away from crops that use excessive amounts of pesticide sprays, such as some orange crops grown in southern states. Hives are also being infested by various kinds of mites, which if not caught quickly enough can decimate an entire hive population within just a few months.
When their hives grow to be too large, wild honeybees will create new ones, quite a distance away from the original. They do this by surrounding a new queen in a huge clump, and "swarming" in quest of a new site for the hive. These swarms can appear in some very unlikely, and sometimes scary places, such as a neighborhood park, your backyard or even in downtown urban areas clinging from a convenient tree, while the swarm is in the process of choosing a new home.
Of even more concern are bees that have already built a hive in the walls or attic of your property, or in the branches of a tree in your backyard. Walls and attics are fairly common residences for hives simply because they offer more protection and are easier for the colony to defend. This situation isn't just scary for residents, but can actually damage your home.
Regardless of whether or not you encounter a swarm, or have a colony infestation in your home; in order to protect these very important critters from further decline, it is important to hire a bee removal service that will remove the hive, intact, and relocate it to a beekeeper, rather than exterminate the residents. The eminent result for failure to act eco-responsibly around bees could be the end or incredible scarcity of foods that we have come to rely on in our diets.
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