Could Weed Help Restore The Bee Population?

Cannabis helps preserve the environment by attracting bees, which help spread pollen. The bees’ declining population is due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change. We need to do everything we can to help preserve them, and this new connection between bees and cannabis could be a major part of that.

What is Happening To The Bees

Bees are an important part of our planet’s ecosystem, and their decline is troubling. Their important role in pollinating crops means that a lot of our food is unavailable without them. Their contribution to the global economy is also significant.

Unfortunately, the insects that were named the world’s most invaluable species are in a rate of rapid decline, so why is the bee population disappearing?

There is a common name for this phenomenon – colony collapse disorder. It’s the sudden and unexplained decline of a single or group of hives. It’s a problem that’s been happening across the world for the past few years, and scientists still don’t know what’s causing it. But there are a few ideas that are being discussed – and none of them are really definite. One theory is that something is harming the bees. Another is that the bees are simply reacting to changes in the environment. And yet another is that the bees are losing their ability to communicate with each other. But no one really knows for sure what’s going on.

The loss of habitat for animals is a serious environmental issue.

Bees are running out of space to collect pollen, and the flowers they rely on for food are dwindling in number. Fields of flowers have either been polluted by harmful pesticides that kill the bees, or have been destroyed by development that’s taken away the land they grew on.

Climate change is a growing problem that requires a coordinated response.

As the climate warms, it can affect the behavior of bees and how they hibernate. In recent years, weather fluctuations have caused some bees to think it’s time to stop hibernating and head back to work. This can lead to many bees leaving their hive, not returning in time when the warm snap breaks. If the queen dies, the colony can leave in search for a new leader, which can be difficult to do when the workers aren’t there to protect and keep her warm.

There is a serious problem with varroa mites and the bee population is declining. If we don’t find a solution soon, the bee population will continue to decline and we’ll lose important crops and jobs.

These mites are a serious problem when it comes to the decline of bees over the last two decades. Varroa mites feed on bees, weakening them and shortening their lives. This can lead to defects in the newborn bees, as well as the colony as a whole.

The use of pesticides helps to ensure the safety of food and the environment.

Currently, pesticide usage is common among growers of plants and crops. Neonicotinoids, a type of pesticide, is known to have a negative effect on the nervous systems of bees, which makes it difficult for them to fly properly. Unless growers alter their usage of certain pesticides, bees will continue to be affected.

Can Weed Help Restore The Bee Population?

Recent research suggests that bees are attracted to cannabis plants and that their relationship has great potential to help with the declining population of bees. Bees typically are attracted to plants that offer sweet, sugary nectar that come from floral plants whose intention is to attract insects to promote pollination. However, with many floral flowers dyeing off of cannabis plants, it has become an important source of pollen. Let’s take a look at several studies that have shown bees and cannabis are meant to be together.

A Colorado State University study found that the flowers of the hemp plant are beneficial to bees, attracting and supporting a large number of pollinating insects. This is great news as many floral plants are declining in number, and hemp may be able to help fill that ecological role.

A recent study from Cornell University showed a positive relationship between bees and marijuana plants. During the study, researchers collected bees who were visiting hemp flowers on 11 separate farms throughout the Finger Lakes region of New York State. They found that 16 different species of bees were visiting these hemp farms, and that the height of a hemp plant directly correlated with the type of bee who visited the plant and the total number of bees. In comparison to the shorter plants, the taller plants produced a larger amount of pollen and were more apparent to the bees, which led to 17 times the number of visits to taller plants. The study concluded that the hemp plant as a potential to provide a strong nutritional outlet for bees during their time of decline and can help increase the spread of pollination for other crops that rely heavily on bees.

Both studies found that because the cannabis plant blooms late in the season, it is a good pollen provider during the end of the flowering season, when pollen is scarce for bees. During this period of seasons, when floral dearth occurs, hemp has the potential to increase pollination for crops in the following year. This was shown in a study conducted out of Punjab, India, where during the floral dearth period bees turned to the male cannabis plants that grow in the wild there as a pollen source. Those bees were only attracted to male cannabis plants, only during the floral dearth periods and only during the peak pollination periods during the day.

This new revelation of bees and marijuana plants thriving together is a welcome surprise to those closely concerned with the bee population. Bees and marijuana plants can help increase the population of bees, which is in decline due to environmental concerns. Cannabis plants are constantly being planted and grown throughout the world, so this partnership is a positive step forward.