Save the Honey Bees!
What are Honey bees?
Honeybees, or Apis Mellifera, are one of the most familiar insects in the world according to Jim Mason at gpnc.org. There are more than one species of honeybee in the world that span from Southeast Asia to Europe. The four different species include The Little Honeybee, The Eastern Honey bee, The Giant Honeybee, and the Western Honeybee. Additionally there are three types of Honeybees inside of any given hive and those are The Queen, The worker bee, and the drone bee.
The Worker bees are the most commonly seen because the Queen bee stays in the hive forever until she dies, and the drone bee is there until it mates with the queen bee and dies directly afterwards, says Kenneth A. Chambers on the everything about bees website.
What do Bees have to offer?
Believe it or not according to many sources including Maria Boland at Mother Nature network, Worker bees pollinate about 80 % of Flowering crops which…
Altogether according to the honey bee conservatory around 15$ billion worth of crops would be destroyed because they require honeybee pollination. In California Almonds alone account for over 80% of the world’s supply of almonds, meaning that almonds are the number one export in the US, generating over 2 billion dollars in revenue. Not only is it the number one export for the US but also is California’s number one export. According to Richie Gerber California has “at least 1,100 sq. miles in the central area that are used only for almonds, and there are at least two hives per acre, and without those there would be such a giant increase in food prices”. Although our grains do not necessarily rely on honey bees, the majority of our food are dependent on honeybee pollination, across the globe there are around 90 different food plants that rely exclusively on honeybees. Without the honeybees our diets would be dramatically…
