Honey Bee: the bane of human agriculture activities

The bee's death affecting agriculture http://www.thebeijingnews.com source: Beijing News

Two little bees, flies to flowers, one flew west, one flew east, mining strike 100 nectar, back home.

This is not playing in tampering epidemic. In fact, now little bees are really experiencing a lot of trouble. They lost.

Vanishing of the bees

This spring, the many suddenly found United States-keepers were trained, their hive of worker bees are gone, the Queen Bee and larvae of crying soon died from hunger.

Allegedly, the United States during the past year the number of colonies, some of the hardest hit by the loss of more than 90%. This kind of phenomenon known as "mad bee colony collapse disorder (CCD) of". In a very short period of time, CCD swept through Brazil, Canada and Europe in many places, causing a lot of bees disappear. Bees, honey naturally dried up. Can we and our children can only be achieved through aspartame and acesulfame (two artificial sweetners) to feel "sweet life"?

If bees disappear, we lost will not just "sweet life".

Archeological discoveries, 7000-8000 years ago, our ancestors have artificial feeding of bees ' nest. These small things not only to our ancestors provides energy abundant honey and, more importantly, through pollination, they provide many crops harvest provides initial protection. Today, approximately in the human diet 15%-30% of the direct or indirect and bee pollination, in particular a large number of fruit and vegetables, only in the United States, bees 1 year of creation agricultural output is up to us $ 15 billion. This CCD explosion, the greatest loss of fruit farmers in the United States. Soon, we'll find the price expensive "United States" and almond appreciated — almond in the United States is an annual output value of 20 billion sale, however, it's all thanks to the bee.

The reasons are complex

Stake, CCD

has become a worldwide, particularly in the United States scholars and ordinary people concerned about the hotspot, the various statements. Some people think that the problem of global warming; with the ubiquitous cell phone signal interference by the bee's navigation systems; some scholars believe that a widely used pesticide imidacloprid is culprit; a more shocking suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is the · Tycoon by killing the bees to destroy the United States agriculture. There is also a United States blog claims that God calls the bees are gone to heaven.

6 September this year, the United States Science magazine published an article, the first time lock the suspect — called Israel acute paralysis virus (IAPV) insect viruses.

The University of Pennsylvania in the United States the Cox Probst (DianaCox-Foster)-led 30 scientists conducted 5 months of extensive investigation, analysis of the honey bee is almost all known pathogenic bacteria, fungi and viruses. Finally, if a bee IAPV was detected, this group of bee 96% of probability of occurrence CCD.

Of course, scientists have also maintained a prudent attitude, they said that IAPV virus is also possible that the bees are immunocompromised status infected by them.

Paper co-author Petit (JefferyPettis), CCD is caused by many factors, it manifests is viruses, parasites, as well as some external pressure (such as pesticides, handling of bumpy) of a cumulative effect.

"The Chinese" crisis

At present, our country's honeybees CCD has not yet appeared, however, the phenomenon of our bees also faced a huge crisis.

At the end of the 19th century, China introduced the world's most widely distributed species — Italy honey bee (APIs mellifera), because of our indigenous species honeybee APIs mellifera (Chinese) as well as high economic efficiency, strong, APIs mellifera, especially on the new APIs without resistance to infectious diseases,causing the Chinese Herber currently already endangered. However, as Darwin in his "orchid pollination is described in the book, the pollinating insects and flowers after a long period between the" conspiracy ", eventually reached an Alliance, the Alliance makes certain plants and certain insects form an ingenious reciprocal relationship between — pollination and nectar. Those in the hundreds in cooperation with honey-native plants of China, suddenly found that the new Italy pollination workers cannot with teamwork, their sons became a major problem.

Yang Shuo in the Lychee honey bees, "said" nothing for people, giving a very good thing.

"Now, do we have to do something? not only to save the bees, but also to save ourselves.

□ Lean camel (Shandong biology researchers)