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
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is when bees start declining in population. Although bees go through CCD, scientists are still trying to figure out what the cause of CCD is to bee colonies. After testing, scientists have discovered a virus that was unknown to the United States called (IAVP) which is Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus. Not only has it been found in the U.S. but, around the world also. CCD has been found in colonies ranging from new techniques. Since the immune system of bees are very complex vaccine are very difficult to find. Scientists are finding ways to protect against the IAVP. Humankind must act quickly to ensure that pact between flowers and pollinators stay intact, to safeguard our food supply and to protect our environment.
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
After reading this article I've learned so much more about bees. I had no idea that bees have been starting to decline because of CCD. I think that CCD is terrible and should be stopped before all the bees go extinct in the near future. Instead of killing a bee on the spot because of fears of getting stung, we should think twice about them and try to preserve and save them as much as possible. What scientists should be doing is finding a way to protect bees from IAVP and find the type of vaccine for the bees also.
So what?:
Says who?:
What if?... Bees went extinct:
The Lorax movie. Like bees, people didn't realize how important the truffula trees were until the were gone
- Bees having been starting to die
- Scientists describe the phenomenon as colony collapse disorder (CCD)
- Colony collapse disorder has killed many numbers of bees that pollinate a third of our crops
- Collaboration ruled out causes for CCD and found many contributing factors.
- CCD is a result of many things such as viruses and pathogens.
- Honeybee colonies in 2006 was about 2.4 million less than half what it was in 1949
- No single bee-keeping method could be blamed, even organic bee-keepers were affected
- Bees with CCD are infested with pathogens including a newly discovered virus, but infections seem secondary.
- The bees were all sick from different combination of diseases, something must have compromised the bee's immune system
- No single pathogen found within the bee could have resulted int the losses
- The females feed on the bee's blood
- Bees were all sick, but each colony seemed to suffer from different combination of diseases.
- Symptoms affected stationary beekeepers and migratory ones
- The crops have a gene for insecticidal toxin. But the toxin only becomes activated in guts of caterpillars, mosquitoes and some beetles
- Neonicotinoids decrease honeybee ability to remember how to get back to their hive, a sign that they can contribute to CCD
- No neonicotinoids were found in the original samples, but other pesticides cannot yet be exonerated
- In the technique, DNA and RNA are collected from an environment containing many organisms
- Consensus is that multiple factors can interact to weaken colonies and make them susceptible to a virus-mediated collapse
B: Summarize the AUTHOR’s main point or idea- at LEAST 1-2 paragraphs
Colony collapse disorder (CCD) is when bees start declining in population. Although bees go through CCD, scientists are still trying to figure out what the cause of CCD is to bee colonies. After testing, scientists have discovered a virus that was unknown to the United States called (IAVP) which is Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus. Not only has it been found in the U.S. but, around the world also. CCD has been found in colonies ranging from new techniques. Since the immune system of bees are very complex vaccine are very difficult to find. Scientists are finding ways to protect against the IAVP. Humankind must act quickly to ensure that pact between flowers and pollinators stay intact, to safeguard our food supply and to protect our environment.
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
After reading this article I've learned so much more about bees. I had no idea that bees have been starting to decline because of CCD. I think that CCD is terrible and should be stopped before all the bees go extinct in the near future. Instead of killing a bee on the spot because of fears of getting stung, we should think twice about them and try to preserve and save them as much as possible. What scientists should be doing is finding a way to protect bees from IAVP and find the type of vaccine for the bees also.
So what?:
- There is a loss of bees
- It results into less pollination
- The cause is CCD
- The virus is called IAVP
Says who?:
- Diana Cox-Foster
- Dennis vanEngelsdorp
What if?... Bees went extinct:
- there would be less pollinators
- less plants
- no honey
The Lorax movie. Like bees, people didn't realize how important the truffula trees were until the were gone