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RAMIRO RIVERA
BUGS AND PEOPLE ENY 1001
DR. DAVID SERRANO
10/09/2012
DISSAPPEARING BEES
The article I read is mainly emphasized on the exaggerated amount of money our government spendson the perfection of war materials and the low priority given to what truly is an issue that can affect
in a huge way humanity which is the “disappearance of the bees”.
The authors statethat traditional scientific research has thus far not established a definitive role for
im-idacloprid in causing colony collapse disorder. There is a dangerous flip side: Politicians of allstripes who give the military whatever it asks for fail to perform their civilian oversight function. This
results in the triumph of old habits of mind inside the military, which have kept the UnitedStates in the
same spending rut it has been in for decades.
A huge informal trial of neonicotinoid insecticides is performed every year in Canada, where tens of
thousands of hives are placed onseed treated canola. The canola nectar and pollen are the sole source
of food for the colonies, and every drop and grain is contaminated with the insecticide. Yet year after
year, the coloniesthrive. The testing of hundreds of pollen samples by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture has found no link between imidacloprid levels and collapse. Indeed, a few large
commercial beekeepershave said that the seed treatments are the best thing that ever happened for
bees, because their use has ended the normal bee kills due to the previously used insecticides.
In conclusionwithout the existence of the bees we could not live because they are largely responsible
for the pollination of plants and they have been slowly disappearing in recent years and we are not sure
of theorigin of this problem. This article says that insecticide are little responsible in the issue of
disappearance of the bees. If the process of pollination does not occur we would lack food. For...
BUGS AND PEOPLE ENY 1001
DR. DAVID SERRANO
10/09/2012
DISSAPPEARING BEES
The article I read is mainly emphasized on the exaggerated amount of money our government spendson the perfection of war materials and the low priority given to what truly is an issue that can affect
in a huge way humanity which is the “disappearance of the bees”.
The authors statethat traditional scientific research has thus far not established a definitive role for
im-idacloprid in causing colony collapse disorder. There is a dangerous flip side: Politicians of allstripes who give the military whatever it asks for fail to perform their civilian oversight function. This
results in the triumph of old habits of mind inside the military, which have kept the UnitedStates in the
same spending rut it has been in for decades.
A huge informal trial of neonicotinoid insecticides is performed every year in Canada, where tens of
thousands of hives are placed onseed treated canola. The canola nectar and pollen are the sole source
of food for the colonies, and every drop and grain is contaminated with the insecticide. Yet year after
year, the coloniesthrive. The testing of hundreds of pollen samples by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture has found no link between imidacloprid levels and collapse. Indeed, a few large
commercial beekeepershave said that the seed treatments are the best thing that ever happened for
bees, because their use has ended the normal bee kills due to the previously used insecticides.
In conclusionwithout the existence of the bees we could not live because they are largely responsible
for the pollination of plants and they have been slowly disappearing in recent years and we are not sure
of theorigin of this problem. This article says that insecticide are little responsible in the issue of
disappearance of the bees. If the process of pollination does not occur we would lack food. For...
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