How much of our food supply do bees pollinate?

What is important about bees?

Without bees, we would be missing much of our food. Bees pollinate any of the fruits and vegetables we eat, along with some grains, and grasses.

Why is the bee such a useful insect?

Bees are important pollinators, playing a crucial role in the reproduction of many plants, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers. They also produce honey, beeswax, and other hive products that are valuable to humans. Additionally, bees contribute to biodiversity and ecosystem health.

How do bees help the earth?

YES. Honey bees help people cause they make honey 4 us 2 eat and they also take pollen 2 help grow flowers, so no one should be afraid of them. Except for the faq that they sting the **** out of you if you get them pissed =) remember that

In virtual villagers 5 How do you get food without noni fruit?

All you need to do is knock down the eating totem and they will leave so you can get the noni after that... If they ate all the Noni or you harvested them all, you can cast the bees power on the Noni and they will pollinate it giving it more fruit. (I don't now how much fruit).

Do all bees store honey?

No. Social bees in the Genus Apis have huge colonies and so create a lot of honey which is basically supposed to be their over-winter food supply. Bumblebees have much smaller colonies and so have only a few thimvlefuls of honey in their nest. Mining bees that nest in the ground or carpenter bees in dead wood leave their larvae with a pollen "loaf" which is a small pellet of flower pollen and nectar mixed together.

How emportant is nature to us?

Nature is helpful in many ways, trees give us oxygen to breathe, bees pollinate flowers to give us fruit, swallows stop us getting overrun by flies, its way too much to say in one wikianswer! XD

How much money would be lost if honey bees do not return?

It is estimated that the global agricultural industry would lose billions of dollars if honey bees did not return. Honey bees are crucial for pollinating a wide variety of crops, ensuring successful harvests and food production. Without them, many fruits, vegetables, and nuts would be in short supply, leading to economic losses and potential food shortages.

What is scarier an onslaught of bees or the extinction of bees?

This has to be a personal opinion because some people are frightened of bees. However, bees don't frighten me at all and I would be much more concerned if there were no bees as that would mean a reduction in the amount of food available in the world, and the extinction of those plants which rely on bees for pollination.

What are the impacts when an animal species becomes endangered or extinct?

It depends on the animal and it's habitat For an animal which doesn't really have any natural predators or have any prey, then not much to the ecology (such as Giant Pandas or the Dodo), but for animals which keep an eco-system in balance by keeping certain smaller animal population in check, it can be devastating to the environment if they're removed Think about if bees were removed from an environment which had herbivores and carnivores, the bees pollinate flowers, which means that plants grow more freely and more wide-spread, the herbivores eat these plants, and the carnivores eat the herbivores - without the bees the natural food of the herbivores would die out, and thus their population would get smaller, and thus the food supply of the carnivores would get smaller - thus thinning the populations of the herbivores and carnivores, if unchecked the carnivores would kill off the herbivores before their population reduced, and so the entire food chain would be removed Taking that example from the opposite end, if man hunted the carnivores to extinction or endangered list, then the herbivores would increase in population, eating more of the plants, meaning that the bees would have less plants to pollinate, so the bees population would be reduced in size as they die out from lack of food (nectar from the flowers), the herbivores would begin to die out because of lack of food, eventually the entire eco-system would collapse Basically, most natural eco-systems are finely balanced, and removal of one of the elements sets the entire system off kilter, and eventually destroys it

How bee produces honey?

Generally, bees slurp up nectar (a sweet liquid that plants produce to attract insects to aid pollination) from plants (particularly some flowers) and use this substance 'nectar' as the main source in the combination of the yellow gooey substance that we consume and name as 'honey'. This was done by a Grade 5 ( or P5 ) Singaporean schoolgirl.

Does Germany depend on imports for much of its food supply?

It kinda does but not alot

What makes killer bees unique?

'Killer bees' is a name thought up by the media. They are properly called Africanized bees and what makes them unique is that they are much more aggresive than other bees and will sometimes attack animals and humans without provocation, whereas other bees will usually only attack if they are threatened in some way and they will then attack in self defence.