Pollinators don’t get much credit in our society especially due to them being insects, still when we think in terms of our food and even food security we tend to think differently about these cross-pollinators. It’s the humble honeybee out of the pollinators that have caught the attention of many scientific reporters attempting to publicize the situation to the public to adopt a ‘Bee Plan’ in order to create a safer environment not only for the honeybee but for butterflies, Bats, and many more pollinating animals out there. (Greenpeace, 2016) Despite the lack of statistical information on total populations of bee breeds, many beekeepers have their own assessment and conclusion on the decline of their bee boxes. While every year a bee hive will knowingly loose 10-15% of its hive but in recent years, farmers have seen 25-30% of their hives lost. This they can account for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) a recent occurrence leaving a hive with a queen her young and honey but not …show more content…
Naturally this is a bee’s winter storage that we may take granted for sometimes knowingly, but when hive are isolated from their forage of nutrients such as orchards, gardens, and crops that are in need of pollination but are instead genetically modified to cross-pollinate itself then we are taking away a crucial part of this bee 's existence. (Greenpeace, 2016) On the other hand, you also have orchards and large croplands that are purchasing in a lot of bees boxes from beekeepers globally, they will distribute boxes around your desired crop to be pollinated and leave the bees for a few weeks to do their thing. This has been an essential way for farmers large and small to pollinate their crops naturally especially when not any large bee colonies around. In spite of these beekeepers and farmers good intention the business industry wise is pricey. In California’s Almond season almost 1.8 million bees colonies are shipped in from all over the US about 90% to pollinate 80,000-acre almond orchards. Unfortunately, a high number of these orchards have reported theft among their bee boxes, adding up to $20,000+ in misfortune, uncoincidentally due to the rising cost of pollination. (L.J. Devon (Natural News), 2016) This is a direct effect of the bee population devastation, to have numerous account of forklifts and trucks in the dead of night steal innocent