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Argumentative Essay On Bees Vs Pesticides

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Bees vs Pesticides
Argumentative
By:Amaja Grimm

Bees work to pollinate and make honey, that is why we need to stop using pesticides. The chemicals in the pesticides are toxic to not only wasps, flies, and other pesky insects the pesticides are also toxic to bees. Bees pollinate at least one third of the world’s flowers and other pollinated plants such as pears, apples, cherry, cantaloupe, almonds, blueberries, cranberries, kiwi, plums, carrots, and some other plants too. We need to stop using pesticides wild pollinators, which include bees, wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, moths, birds, bats, and even some non-flying mammals, have suffered and dies from the chemicals. This includes habitat destruction which puts more animals …show more content…

The hive was deep in a forest full of flowers. She was ten days old and full of excitement. One day she was out collecting pollen with her sister lillian, to make honey for the hive. When she stumbled upon these beautiful blue roses, that she had never seen before. She found them in a part of the forest that the queen herself had said to stay away from. The queen had said there was a huge bear that lived near here, but as usual Shine didn’t listen. The young bee flew right up to the flowers, and drank some of the nectar. Shine’s sister flew over as fast as she could to get her away from the flowers.

“Hey what are you doing are you crazy!?” Lillian yelled with fear in her voice. “Mmm these are so good you should really try some sis,” Shine said before she dived back into the flowers. Lillian continued to try and stop her sister. “Oh don’t be like that sis we got plenty of time before we have to go back, right? It’s only dawn,” Shine said in a strange tone that Lillian didn’t recognize, until Shine laid down on one of the flowers, and just passed out. “SHINE, SHINE ARE YOU OK WAKE UP WAKE UP!” Lillian buzzed as she picked up Shine and flew as fast as she could back to the

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