World Bee Day 2022

When is World Bee Day 2022

World Bee Day 2022?is on?Friday, 20th May 2022. Bee Day celebrations raise awareness about the threats to pollinators like bees by human activities. In December 2017, the United Nations (?UN) approved this?day and the?First World Bee?Day?was celebrated on Sunday, 20 May 2018. In the current year 2022, the fifth observance of this?special day?is taking place.

The United States celebrates?National Honey Bee Day?on the third Saturday of August. National Honey Bee Day 2022 is on Saturday, 20 August 2022 in the USA.

Reasons for Endangered Bees

Owing to different reasons, bees are endangered, including habitat loss, pesticides, and other anthropogenic causes. Declining numbers of different species of bees have been noticed around the world, which means that there is a real risk of additional species. In seven years span, the United States saw approximately 1.6 million bees die off each year.

Unfortunately, Honey bees are being affected by a widespread bacterial disease called?American foulbrood.?But fortunately,?FDA?has approved three antibiotics oxytetracycline, tylosin tartrate, and lincomycin hydrochloride— to control this devastating honey bee disease. These antibiotics are approved to control American foulbrood because they are also used to treat diseases in people.

Impacts of Climate Change upon Bees

Climate change is the root cause of many environmental issues. For example, the?Gourd Bee?has a decline in numbers in recent years. The gourd bee lives upon vegetables such as squash or pumpkins. However, climate change has reduced the production of these vegetables, which has an impact on the growth of gourd bees.?U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?have stated that climate change can affect?Rusty Patched Bumble Bee?in several different ways, including, “increased temperature and precipitation extremes, increased drought, early snow-melt, and late frost events.”

Climate changes affect bees both directly and indirectly, the scientists has alarmed that the earlier winter thaws, the earlier snow and frost thaws, and the earlier flowers blooming if bees will be able to keep up with these changing environments. Bees in Australia are dying at high alarming rates, high-density populations and flowerless small gardens are also the bees affecting factors in Australia.

According to?Time Magazine,

“For the study, researchers looked at 110 years of data on 67 bumblebee species to track their movements over time. Activity between 1901 and 1974 was compared to movement in recent decades when climate change accelerated. In the northern end of their range, bees have failed to migrate closer to the North Pole. In the southern end, many populations have died. Altogether, bees have lost a range of up to nearly 200 miles in both North America and Europe. The study, which evaluated land-use changes and pesticide application in addition to weather conditions, attributed the drop to climate change.”

At the moment, a lot of factors including climate change are creating danger for bee species, and scientists are under pressure to find out ways to mitigate these deleterious effects on bee populations. If emergency steps are not taken now, then additional species of bees may be on the endangered list.