Human cant survive without Bees!

If the bees disappear from this earth, human can’t survive – AlbertEinstein

“If the bees disappear from this earth, human can’t survive more than four years in this world!” – Albert Einstein. Beware!

It is not sweet news!!

Bee! The world’s most interesting and complex insect. Let’s know about the surprising aspect of the bee.

Surprise! This tiny bee is the world’s best pollinator. Bee is the main reason for the multi-billion dollar pollination for fruit varieties such as coconut, banana, pumpkin, apple, peach, and food plants such as coffee, cardamom, cotton, and all other food plants. World’s 80 percent of the world’s food is produced by pollination. So the main hero of the world is Bee.

The bees’ information exchange system is more accurate than the Skype and WhatsApp methods. We know that elephants and turtles have very sharp and excellent memories. But bees’ memory power is more than that of humans. There are many more miracles happening in this tiny insect. But now the stunning news is that the bees are in ‘endangered species’ list.

Yes. Surely this is the ‘world-shaking news. The most benefit that can be given by the entire population together to the Earth can be given by a single bee. Bees are helping to cover this Earth with a green blanket. We will understand the importance of the bee only if we know how its lifestyle yields the benefits to the world, to us, and for food creation.

Dr. M.R. Srinivasan, Tamilnadu Agricultural University (Insect department) Explaining and provided the following interesting facts about the Characteristics of Bees.

6 Types of bees available in the world. Epis Dorsata, Apis Florea, Apis Indica, Apis Melipona, Apis mellifera, Apis cerana are those. The Apis Dorsata and Florea can’t be grown on the farm. It will grow automatically in the forest. Other types can be grown on the farm.

In a bee family, one queen bee, a few hundred male bees (Drone), and thousands of worker bees (females) will be there. The life of male bees is 90 days, for worker bees 70 days, and the queen bee is two years. The only work to queen bee is oviposit. Male bees’ duties are only mate with the queen and to protect the beehive. Worker bees are responsible for all other operations. Food collection, building the honeycomb, honey seasonable, and maintaining the bee hive cleanliness are the responsibilities of worker bees.

Engineering, knowledge of bees is a miracle. Honeycomb is hexagonal in design. So that it will not lose even a centimeter of space. For a male bee, it will be a large hexagonal cell, and for a worker bee, a small hexagonal cell will be allocated. The Queen bee alone will be staying in a cylinder-shaped cell. The queen bee will occupy this honeycomb and Oviposit only if the quality of the construction is satisfied.

The pollen of flowers and their sweetness are the food for bees. If it is hungry, then it will have it instantly. Why is it collecting the honey, then? To manage food during the winter days.

The world’s best food processing technology is done by bees. Worker bees go out and suck the sweet liquids from the flowers and saves in in the honey bag, which is inside the bee’s stomach. This sweet liquid will not be digested and will mix with enzymes and be converted into a liquid.

A worker bee that returns to the beehive will deliver this liquid to the other bees, who are waiting at the entrance. For that, it will bring out the honey from the stomach by belching and drop into the other bee’s mouth. A single bee needs to belch 50 times in order to make a drop of honey. Beehives protecting bees will again produce honey into the honeycomb, which is allotted and adds the enzyme inverdos. After that, to vaporize the liquidity swing its wings. After that, to secure the honey, it will apply some kind of wax on it. Only after these many steps, we taste the honey. Honey collectors will leave some part of the honey in the beehive itself. That is the ethics!!

The queen bee just oversees these tasks. Only mating with male bee is its task. At the time, Queen Bee flew faster upwards. Whatever the male bee is chasing, it will mate with the queen. After the mating, the male bee will die since its wings will break. Then the queen bee will lay the eggs, and newborn bees will be taken care of by worker bees!

Information – sharing systems for collecting honey are attractive. When there is demand for food, the bee ‘Scout’ will go out initially to find out the location of flowers that have honey and return. Scout bees then communicate through their dance to other worker bees to inform them in which direction and how far they have discovered the garden.

There are two types of dances that bees can do. Round dance and Waggle dance. It will inform the distance of the flowers by round dance. In the waggle dance, if it is flying up, the flowers are available in the direction towards the Sun. If it is flying down, then food is available in the opposite direction of the sun. If it is shaking waggle faster, then the garden is very near. Slow shake indicates the flower garden is far.

Bees’ dances relate to the sun, the direction of the oasis, and the location of their beehive. To discover the secret of the delicate dance, the Austrian ecologist Karl von Frisch got the Nobel Prize in 1973.

When bees collect honey from flowers, pollen will stick on their feet, and while sitting on the succession of flowers, it will spread pollen with various coalition. This is the reason of growing forest and gardens. Mostly, we can see bees will be available in the forests. Because where bees are available forest will grow naturally.

” What is the risk to bees in order to enlist in the endangered species? ”

Bees are on the endangered species list in Western countries such as the United States and Europe. In the last five years alone, 1/3 of bees vanished. Means the destruction of bees has increased by 42 percent. In India, there is no risk for bees till now. However, the scenario soon would be in India as well.

The reason for this disaster is Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). IE, the worker bees that are going out to collect honey will disappear in bulk. The only queen bee will be in the beehive. Gradually, no worker bees will be available for the particular beehive. In that case, the Queen bee will be messed up and die soon. Otherwise, it will look for a different beehive. There are many reasons for the disappearance of worker bees.

Particularly, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and genetically modified crops. Chemical fertilizers known as the Neonicotinoids affect the nervous system of bees, and they will lose their memory. So it will forget the way of returning to their beehive and roam to find and die. Genetically modified seeds called ‘terminator seeds or suicide seeds’ will not provide seed grains. It will only produce sterile seeds. Protein available in genetically modified crop pollen will cause digestive discomfort to bees; at a point, it will kill bees.

Thus, the changes made by man in agriculture for ‘business profits’ will destroy bees. In European countries, they found that the lack of agricultural production in the last five years is due to the mortality of bees. So, they banned synthetic fertilizers and genetically modified seeds. They are trying to fly foster bees in their fields to pollinate. Millions of bees are destroyed by selfish men like us, but we can’t even create a single bee. When are we realizing this?.

“If the bees disappear from this earth, man can’t survive in this world for more than four years !” – Albert Einstein