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Bees Blog
Bees provide a great service pollinating a wide variety of agricultural crops and flowering plants. Bees in nature are ranks as the most consistent species of pollinator for crops worldwide.
Ultimate Guide to Understand the Importance of Bees in Our Lives
5 Reasons Honey Bee are Important to Our Ecosystem
It definitely takes more than soil, water and the sun to make the living organisms, plants and animals to thrive in the world. 90% of plants require cross pollination to thrive in Malaysia, busy bees are the most important pollinators. Unfortunately, the bee populations worldwide are declining, the risk of their disappearance might hurt the forest ecosystems. Climate change disrupt the natural flow of energy in the physical environment.
Causing some flowers bloom cycle to change, leaving hungry bees with fewer pollen and nectar, their food sources at the beginning of the season. Bees suffer a great habitat loss from developing, abandon farmland and reduction of biotic component to produce royal jelly. Some colonies suffers and collapse when plants and seeds get treatment with pesticides, or infected by harmful parasites.
Even the most common species in the terrestrial ecosystem, bumble bee has almost became endangered recently. The good news is that gardeners can assist the bee to multiply and the populations can gradually bounce back. Farming a bee garden will not only help them with their food web chain, it lead to healthier and vibrant plants. It ensures that worker bees will continue to play their critical role in our ecosystem that includes pollination.
This blog article will cover the 5 reasons bee are important to our ecosystem, freshwater ecosystem, aquatic ecosystems and terrestrial ecosystem.
Pollination is a Vital Ecosystem Service Provided By Various Species Especially Bees
1. Pollination
What is your ultimate favourite fruit or vegetable? If it is apples, berries, melons or broccoli, you must thank the fuzzy bee for it to be possible. Plants require assistance transferring pollen grains from the male part of the anther flower to the female stigma flower. The most important process in the economic production of various plants.
When bees manoeuvre in search of pollen and nectar, they leave grains of pollen allowing plants to grow and produce food. Bees creates a reputation of successfully pollinating billions of plants every year, this includes millions of agricultural crops. In fact, they plays a key role in one third of every bites of food we consume. Without their help, most of the plants we rely on for food would extinct globally.
Loss of Habitat is the Main Cause of Extinction
2. Growth In Wild Plants
Approximately 600 plants have gone extinct globally in the past 250 years. Farm grown fruits and vegetables are not the only ones that rely on pollinators to thrive in Malaysia. Many other species of wild plants depend on flying insect and bees for pollination too. Bees are highly responsible for production of various type of seeds, nuts, berries and fruits serving as food source for animals in the wild.
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3. Nutritious Food Source
Bees produces honey to feed their colonies, they lay eggs and multiply with the help of the rest of the members in the colony. Humans, animals and insects harvest honey for many years, beehives provide a taste of the sweet nutritious honeycomb. Bees are a part of this food chain alongside 24 type of bird species, including blackbird, hummingbird, and starling preying bees. Many insects such as dragonflies, spiders and praying mantises eat bees for food source.
Pollination is An Important Cycle in Our Ecosystem
4. Wildlife And Their Habitats
Bees are recognise for their systematic hives, they contribute to millions of other plants, insects and animals to thrive. Their primary role as a pollinators is vital to sustain the growth of tropical forests and existing plants. Many tree and plants species, for example willows cannot grow without the assistance of pollinators. Even the garden in your backyard serves as a home for hundreds and thousands of creatures, from birds and rodents to the smallest insects.
If bees extinct or disappears, the animals and creatures that rely on these plants for survival will vanish as well.
Working Together in Maintaining Balance and Support Life in the Ecosystems
5. Biological Diversity - Biodiversity
As pollinators, the bees plays a major role in various aspect maintaining balance and supporting life in the ecosystem. They provide support and growth of trees, flowers, and plants, serving as food and shelter for numerous creatures. Bees contribute to the complicated, interconnection within ecosystems that allow a wide range of different species to co-exist. Without the existence of bees in the world most of our food supply from plants will extinct.
Without bees, our gardens in the backyard will be bare and our plates will be empty. We need to always remember the reasons bees are important to the environment before killing these delicate insects.
Where Will Happen Globally If Bees Extinct?
We lose all plants that bees pollinate, every animals that consume these plants and so forth in the food chain. Without bees we struggle to sustain the human population of 7 billion globally. Our marts will only have half the number of fruits and vegetables.
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Innovative Pest Blog Summary
Try to imagine a world without the presence of bees, we obviously do not have the privilege to indulge honey. Probably enjoy picnics in the open more often without worrying of getting bee stings or attacks.
At Innovative Pest Sdn Bhd, we provide an approach to conserve the bee and refrain harmful the colony. We maintain to prioritise the bees species to keep playing a major key role in our ecosystem. By relocating them in a safer location away from urban living. With years of training and experience our specialists have a high number of success rate to relocating bee safely.
