In recent years, beekeepers report they’re losing on average 30% of all honeybee colonies each winter twice the loss considered economically tolerable. We rely on bees to pollinate 71 of the 100 crops that provide 90% of most of the world’s food. Imagine no almonds, fewer apples and strawberries, less alfalfa to feed dairy cows, and the list goes on.
http://www.environmentmassachusetts.org/programs/mae/no-bees-no-food
My family owns a bees and we are facing these problems too, our bees are dying out and leaving. There's not much we can do
ReplyDeleteIt may be because of the drought in California, but at the supermarket I was at yesterday, it had noticeably less food than normal, especially in the fruit and vegetable section. This is concerning mostly because there was another article about obesity saying that we need to make fruits and vegetables cheaper. How do we make them cheaper AND constantly at supermarkets across the world? I think we'd have to pick one or the other.
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