Negrete Cynthia Negrete Professor Amanda Lloyd English 101 29 September 2017 Bryan Walsh Summary In the essay “The Plight of the Honeybee,” Bryan Walsh, editor atTime Magazine, claims that many honey bee colonies are dying. He insists that pesticides and bacterial infections are the main cause of this misfortune (217).With the multiple death of bees, the way plants are pollinated and many foods will be completely different. Walsh states that with the disappearance of honeybees, a great amount of the world’s food sources will be effected. In this essay, Walsh believes that pesticides are the main reason bees are disappearing. Walsh personally spoke with a bee keeper, Jim Doan, who shares that the reason bees are disappearing is neonicotinoid pesticides. According to Doan, these types of chemicals are spread on more than 140 crops, including on well-known farms and even at home gardens. Walsh mentions that farmers have been drenched pesticides for many decades and they are only being
