The plight of the Honeybee

So you want a small bee me to write a story about the current situation in the bee Kingdom of (or more strictly correct, queendom)?

People have been still more attention to the stresses and strains that have been placed in the bee population.  Honeybee not only, but the bees, and other types of bees.  There has been a lot written in the newspapers and alarming comment to documentary film.

So what is really going on, you ask?

Good has put it in context, bees have been around 50 million years.  People much less than that!  So, as you often say bees "been around the block a few times!"

We have survived global warming, global cooling, global volcanic disturbances and the impact of many out of the space objects like you never could consider.  And we are still here!  Some of your scientists have predicted that, if there was a nuclear war, we would be one of the few creatures that survive.  I am pleased, even if you have decided not to press the button and try that, in particular, the theory!

It is, we are all connected.

We contribute as a worldwide population of bees, to provide about 50% of your food.  And we continue to do so without complaint, to get with our daily lives.  Yet you are poisoning our food (and their) with chemicals, which should never be used in such a concentrated force.  You are also changing seed, grow food, so that they become pre-laden with further concentrated toxic substances.  And it makes you now on a massive scale.  We are all connected.  Your wife is our poison your married.

We are used to suffering local disasters, but in some parts of the world, large proportions of your domestic honey bee hives are loaded into trucks and transported across continents and then poisoned and fed on junk food — just so that we can pollenate your Almond groves.  The industrialization of your food industry is one of the largest man-made disasters in the last century.  We are all connected.  Your company-mega-industrial process creates our junk food, which creates your junk food.

We have some problems like the mite that attacks us, makes us weak, so we are susceptible to virus attacks.  We have faced these problems before.  Your beekeeping methods help us to tackle this problem.  You also understand other aspects of bee health and good animal husbandry.  We are all connected.  Our health is now dependent on your help, which is dependent on you become more aware and more connected with your food and your environment.

We are all connected.  Buy more honey.  Take more of an interest in our small bees.  Become a beekeeper!  You can become dependent on a hobby for a lifetime!

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