Bees play an important role in our everyday lives. Bees nourish our fruits vegetables and even plants. “They play and equally important role in the natural, not to mention all that honey.” (“save”4) The bees do nothing but great things for our fruits and veggies. However, many bees have been disappearing over the time. This issue is caused by pesticides …show more content…
European union tried it last April, the they voted to ban a certain class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. These chemicals are similar to nicotine, which can give humans a nice buzz. But in bees, neonicotinoid exposure is thought to have a wide range of negative effects, primarily scrambling a bee’s ability to navigate so it can’t forage properly and suppressing the immune system and leaving the bee vulnerable to parasites.Pesticide makers like Bayer CropScience and Syngenta have argued that research on neonicotinoids subjects bees to unrealistically high doses of the chemicals, and that other factors like disease and nutrition are more likely to blame for the decline in bee populations. The British government has accepted the ban but disputed some of the scientific justification for it.Nevertheless, the EU ban went into effect this past December and will last for two years. Some scientists fear that European farmers may turn to more toxic pesticides in the wake of the ban, while others fear that crop pests may seize their advantage in the coming years. Only time will tell what the ban has