This document discusses the importance of bees as pollinators for one third of the world's food supply. It notes that bees are vital parts of the food chain and ecosystems. The document also warns that honeybee colonies are dying all over the world due to pesticides, which damage bees' nervous systems and ability to communicate. It provides recommendations for what individuals can do to help bees by avoiding pesticides, using eco-friendly alternatives, and planting bee-friendly plants.

1. BEES
Paula Busquets
Minh-Laia Aparici
Júlia Boarini

2. The importance of bees
• Bees are pollinators vital to our food
chain. One third of the food we eat
would not be available but for bees.
• Bees, like other insects, are part of a
food chain.
• The social life of the honey bee colony
provides a controversial start to thinking
about the structure of societies.
• The tools which have evolved on the
limbs and mouthparts of bees are neat
examples of adaptation and
engineering.
• The harvest from honey bees of honey,
pollen, wax and propolis has nutritional,
craft, manufacturing, and medical
applications.
• Pollination by bees is important for
genetic sustainability. Genes that have
evolved in other animals are important
to our future, too.

3. Honey bees are in danger
• Whole colonies of honey bees are dying all over
the world. This has disastrous consequences for
our biodiversity and agriculture. Without honey
bees 80% of the plants will disappear. Without
specific plant species, butterflies will extinct and
our fruits and vegetables will diminish. A
distaster for nature but also for us people. The
human health prognoses on the long term are
worrying if the biodiversity shrinks.

4. Pesticides kill them
• Since the early '90s a new kind of pesticide
entered the European market. The group of
these pesticides are called neonicotinoids and
phenylpyrazoles. This poison damages the
nervous system of the honey bees. Result: The
bees are unable to communicate accurate.
Communication between honey bees is
essential for food sources and dangerous spots.
The infected honey bee flies back and
contaminates the whole colony. The weakened
colony dies as a result of the pesticide.

5. What you can do?
1. Check your closets for poison against ants and other crawling
insects. These products can also contain the pesticides described
above. Ant killers from Maxforce, Pokon, Admire, HGX and
GAUCHO may contain the harmful pesticides.
2. Use eco friendly alternatives. For example; lavender expels lice.
Plant mint between the cabbage and the caterpillars will not eat
the leaves.
3. Bees love plants and herbs like showy stonecrop, catmint, New
York asters, bee balm and many more. Help them strengthen and
feed themselves and the colony by planting those plants in your
garden or at your balcony.
4. Subscribe to our newsletter on the right site of this page. We will
inform you on a regular basis about the honeybee friendly
alternatives and what you can do to protect the honey bees.

6. Thank you for your attention

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