In many situations bee keepers, especially commercial ones, lost between 30 to 90 percent of their hives (Suryanarayanan 33). From experience they are recognizing and noting situations where bees die out and where the colonies are stable. Over observations commercial beekeepers believe agricultural insecticides are the main cause to the high death in bee colonies. One insecticide particularly, neonicotinoid imidacloprid, was usually in the commercial fields that the bees were supposedly pollinating for fertilization. When studies where done on this insecticide and ones similar to it, interesting data was collected giving these bee keepers viable facts proving these insecticides were adverse on the bees health and pollination. Studies showed that “chronic feeding of neonicotinyl insecticides to honeybees at sub lethal doses comparable to levels found in pollen and nectar of treated field crops had delirious effects on learning, memory, behavior and longevity” of the honey bees (Suryanarayanan
In many situations bee keepers, especially commercial ones, lost between 30 to 90 percent of their hives (Suryanarayanan 33). From experience they are recognizing and noting situations where bees die out and where the colonies are stable. Over observations commercial beekeepers believe agricultural insecticides are the main cause to the high death in bee colonies. One insecticide particularly, neonicotinoid imidacloprid, was usually in the commercial fields that the bees were supposedly pollinating for fertilization. When studies where done on this insecticide and ones similar to it, interesting data was collected giving these bee keepers viable facts proving these insecticides were adverse on the bees health and pollination. Studies showed that “chronic feeding of neonicotinyl insecticides to honeybees at sub lethal doses comparable to levels found in pollen and nectar of treated field crops had delirious effects on learning, memory, behavior and longevity” of the honey bees (Suryanarayanan