Impact of environmental pollution and its remedial measures on pollinators especially honey bees

Honey bees play an essential role in plant pollination, contributing to increased agricultural production, sustaining biodiversity and maintaining the balance of ecosystems. Anthropogenic activities are major anxieties regarding biodiversity decline of ecologically important species of insects including honey bee. Honey bee while foraging collect nectar and pollens from plants and have continuous interaction with the outside environment resulting in bee poisoning. Variety of environmental stresses such as pesticides pollutant, industrial pollutant, air pollution, water pollution etc. posing a real threat to honey bee. Out of these stresses, pesticides are generally recognized to be one of the most important concerns that affect the honey bee’s existence. Now, environmental pollution in the form of smog is currently a major problem and can be added to the list of stressors. Beside this environment pollution, there are other challenges like chemicals used to control honey bee pests, predators and diseases, competitive relations between honey bee, radiation, climate change, global warming, geomagnetic disturbance and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) threatens the life of honey bee. Attention should be taken against all these challenges with keen interest to save the pollinators for future generation. This review aims to observe the pollinators’ loss due to pollution, the different types of pollution causing decline of pollinators and their possible remedial measures to minimize the negative impact of pollution on honey bee.