For many plants, bees are indispensable to fruit. Bees pollinate the plants by carrying pollen. Without pollination, plants cannot bear fruit. Unfortunately, the number of bees is decreasing all over the world. In the United States, for example, the number of bee colonies is less than half of what it was in the 1940s.
If the honeybees were to perish, production of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other foods would become difficult. Agriculture around the world would suffer, and as a consequence, high food prices and famine are predicted. The physicist Dr. Einstein left the following words. “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more man.”
Reasons for the decline of bees include habitat destruction, the effects of pesticides, climate change, and the decline of flowers as a source of nectar. There are many things we can do to prevent bees from extinction, such as not using herbicides, promoting urban beekeeping, and planting flowers.
