The Link Between Honey Bee and Climate Change

We are losing billions of bees each year due to many complicated causes including climate change. “We think they are present in good number; lives in huge group, doesn't means they are not “declining”.

But the world's honey bees are in steep decline, with 10 million hives disappearing just in the past three years. Scientist are not clear on exactly what factor are behind bee's decline, what is known as climate change.

Climate change has disturbed the seasonal cycles. The having of flowering has shifted earlier than the before timings. Honey bee feeds on flower for nector is used to make jelly, royal jelly and honey for the nutrient purpose. Normally, bee attracts toward flower due to their fragrance and pigmentation.

These olfactory cues – that is, floral sent, associate with the resources provided by a given plant. Using memory, they are capable of distinguish between scent of high or low sugar nector, and flower do not contain nector.

The synchronised association between bee's breeding and flowering are important for the nector collection as well as pollination respectives.

Due to unchecked climatic condition such as increased temperature, draught etc has altered the plants volatile emission because of which pollinator wouldn't able to recognise the flowers.

Not only this but early fluorescent creating chances of mismatch in seasonal timing between when flower produces pollen and when bee's are ready to feed on them, small mismatch of 3-6 days could show negative effect on both plant had already being bloomed and very less amount of nector remain left. This asynchronies relation affects both plant as well as pollinator. Insufficient amount of nutrient is responsible for losing millions of bees each year.

Apart from this, climate change is causing habitat loss as bee's fails to migrate to coller area and establish new hives.

In high temperature bees are more susceptible to disease due to high prevalence of parasite. Increase in temperature is result of climate change only.

This little bee needs our attention for sustainable environment. Se “human” can not survive more then 4 years on this planet without honeybees.

To protect bee's and to safe guard their function of pollinations both in natural and in agricultural environment, it is important to accurately measure how climate change affect the production of floral resources in each environment. If the environment can't produce enough flowers to sustain bee hive, wild bee will be the first to lack resources.