We all dislike getting stung by bees and sometimes wish they would go away. However, honeybees dying isn't such a good thing. Humans have been spraying pesticides on their crops to keep insects away. Two common insecticides are killing off thousands of honeybees and destroying their colonies. Even though they are quite the pests, they pollinate our flowers and help our crops grow. If it were not for honeybees, we would have a shortage of food. I, for one, love food and need the honeybees to survive to help crops grow. Therefore, I am spreading awareness about the large decrease in honeybees and the destruction of their colonies. Some experiments are shown at the website below.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-bri … -collapse/

Before I start telling you about the things I found, I want to say that this article was very depressing. Who knew that one single chemical could kill so many members of a population? That is terrible.
In my article, http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572 , it says that the bee population is decreasing at 33% per year. However, there is an exception in the winter of 2011-2012. This year was much warmer than other years, and this heat could have been caused by our heating planet. In that winter, only 22% of the bee population decreased. This may be one of the only positive effects of global warming I have seen. So why do we even care if bees are dying? According to the article, one out of three bites of food we eat is affected by the pollination of bees. If bees died, we would be in a food crisis. So can we find an alternative chemical for our crops? Can we create 'bee houses' that do not put stress on bees?