A: List the major ideas, concepts or key points- point by point
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views Before reading this article, I did have prior knowledge to the problems concerning the bees however I did not know however this cause. Now that I know that it is Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, I believe we must work hard together to find the cure for CCD. Though many people do not care about the loss of the bees, they will care about the many fruits and vegetables being the luxurious standard. The bees are the main source of pollination, hummingbirds and such are good, however they are not enough.
- Bees seem to be dying off when no trace left behind
- Scientists describe the phenomenon as colony collapse disorder (CCD)
- One third of the agricultural production depends one bees
- CCD is a result of many things such as viruses and pathogens. The only cure may be long term changes
- If bees numbers drop, many fruits and vegetables we eat currently may become rarities
- The original belief of the bee decline was varroa mites. However this turned out to not be true
- No single pathogen found within the bee could have resulted int the losses
- The bees were all sick from different combination of diseases, something must have compromised the bee's immune system
- No single bee-keeping method could be blamed, even organic bee-keepers were affected
- When the news leaked to the general public, there were many more hypotheses. However, many were not testable
- One popular theory was the bees were being poisoned by Bt crops and other genetically modified crops
- Another popular theory was the decline of bees was a result of synthetic poisons
- Because many of our areas are "weed" free, bees don't have enough food as they rely on weeds for feeds
- Many, many samples were collected to find the cause of the disease
- The nutritional state of bees alone were not enough to explain CCD
- Healthy colonies sometimes had higher amounts of some chemicals than CCD colonies
- No bacterial, fungal, or viral diseases of bees could account for CCD
- Research has found that all bees have eight different bacteria that could be essential to bees
- IAPV alone cannot cause CCD
- Sterilizing old beehive frames with gamma rays can reduce the risk of colony collapse
C: Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views Before reading this article, I did have prior knowledge to the problems concerning the bees however I did not know however this cause. Now that I know that it is Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD, I believe we must work hard together to find the cure for CCD. Though many people do not care about the loss of the bees, they will care about the many fruits and vegetables being the luxurious standard. The bees are the main source of pollination, hummingbirds and such are good, however they are not enough.