Saving the Honeybee
A: List the major ideas, concepts or key points- point by point
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
The author's main point is to explain the importance of every species in this world, and how we should care about them and make changes to help them. We need to make changes as soon as possible because honeybees are very important. We need to protect all animals, especially the ones that pay a big role in their ecosystem such as bees. We need bees to stay alive for various reasons such as if we want our crops to stay alive. The Wildlife Conservation Society combined different triage approaches in its analyses. It gave priority to threatened species that have larger body size and wider geographic range, reasoning that protection of these creatures would likely benefit many other plants and animals. We can't save all animals but we can save a lot so we need to start with the ones that are most important.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views
My reaction to this article is not much different from how i feel about all the articles that I have read. We need to fix this problem along with many others. I know that we cannot save all animals but it is very important that we save the ones that are most important first then the ones that come after that. Honeybees are very important to our planet and to us. They pollinate our flower and crops and the crops are what we eat. If honeybees went extinct then it would be a tragedy and it is something I would never want to experience.
So What?
Knowing this information can keep you informed about what is going on and what could happen and what is happening. Now you can make an effort to save our endangered animals that are in need.
Says Who?
Diana Cox-Foster and Dennis VanEngelsdorp
What If...?
What if all the bees went extinct?
Then the food crops and many plants would die off, no more honey available.
What Does This Remind You Of?
This reminds me of the coyote lab because the coyote removal had been strongly affect negatively to the environmental and other species.
- Wiped out large number of the bees that pollinate 1/3 of crop
- Millions of beehives worldwide have emptied out as honeybees mysteriously disappear, putting at risk nearly 100 crops that require pollination.
- Research is pointing to a complex disease in which combinations of factors, including farming practices make bees vulnerable to viruses.
- Taking extra care with hive hygiene seems to aid prevention and research into antivial drugs could lead to pharmaceutical solutions.
- More than half of the 3000 hives were completely devoid of bees. But no dead bees were in sight.
- 1/4 of us beekeepers had suffered similar looses.
- Hitting 36% of US beekeepers.
- More than 30% of all colonies had died.
- The bees were all sick, but each colony seemed to suffer from a different combination of diseases.
- Nearly 100 of our crops could be left with out pollinators
- There are an estimated 900-1000 commercial beekeepers in the US managing 2.4 million colonies.
- Nearly 100 kinds of crops require pollination by honeybees. The annual value of bees' work is $14 billion in the US and $125 billion worldwide.
- To bees and other pollinators, green lawns look like desert.
- As many as 170 different synthetic chemicals have been found in beehives
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
The author's main point is to explain the importance of every species in this world, and how we should care about them and make changes to help them. We need to make changes as soon as possible because honeybees are very important. We need to protect all animals, especially the ones that pay a big role in their ecosystem such as bees. We need bees to stay alive for various reasons such as if we want our crops to stay alive. The Wildlife Conservation Society combined different triage approaches in its analyses. It gave priority to threatened species that have larger body size and wider geographic range, reasoning that protection of these creatures would likely benefit many other plants and animals. We can't save all animals but we can save a lot so we need to start with the ones that are most important.
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views
My reaction to this article is not much different from how i feel about all the articles that I have read. We need to fix this problem along with many others. I know that we cannot save all animals but it is very important that we save the ones that are most important first then the ones that come after that. Honeybees are very important to our planet and to us. They pollinate our flower and crops and the crops are what we eat. If honeybees went extinct then it would be a tragedy and it is something I would never want to experience.
So What?
Knowing this information can keep you informed about what is going on and what could happen and what is happening. Now you can make an effort to save our endangered animals that are in need.
Says Who?
Diana Cox-Foster and Dennis VanEngelsdorp
What If...?
What if all the bees went extinct?
Then the food crops and many plants would die off, no more honey available.
What Does This Remind You Of?
This reminds me of the coyote lab because the coyote removal had been strongly affect negatively to the environmental and other species.