What Will Happen If All The Bees Died?
Bees.
We donít all agree about bees, but non objectively speaking, beeís are great.
I like bees.
And so should youÖif you donít perhaps this five minute video will change your mind.
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I am asking What if the Bees all died.
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OkayÖback to the bees.
You may have heard people say things like ìwellÖ.if all the bees die, humanity would
die out tooîÖ.cue lightning strikes, earthquakes and general pandemonium.
While that sentence is petty far fetched, we would be pretty screwed without our furry
buzzing friends and here is why.
Bees have a very important job ñ not only do they provide us with delicious honey and
wax, they pollenate.
Pollination is a serious business and allows a huge amount of fruits, nuts and bean plants
to grow.
Pollination also allows for the production of cotton.
Bees are the worlds main pollinator.
Bees are fuzzy and perfect for collecting pollen and transferring it from male to female
plants as they buzz around looking for nectar.
While bees are not the only insect that has the ability to pollinate, they account for
around 70 percent of the worldís pollinationÖso without them our food and clothing sources
would be greatly depleted.
If all the bees died, a lack of lovely honey would be the least of our problems.
While we would still be able to make wax, there would be no bees wax aroundÖ.
But againÖ.
That we could live without.
What we probably would struggle to live without is apples, mangoes, almonds, plums, peaches,
nectarines, strawberries, apricots, avocados, cherries, lemons, limes, raspberries, cranberries,
grapes, tomatoes, onions, almonds, cashew nuts, chestnuts, Kidney beans, lima beans,
sunflower oilÖ..coffee!!!!!
Okay I got slightly bored of naming produce because actuallyÖthe list is pretty endlessÖbut
they are just some of the things that would be at least 70 percent depleted if bees diedÖ.which
means any of these things that did still manage to grow would be hella expensive.
See ya StarbucksÖand what will us millennials do with the price of avocado toast soaring
much higher than the prices of all these houses weíre supposed to be saving for?
While I may be making light of this depletion in our food source, it is actually pretty
darn serious.
The knock on effect from a 70 percent decrease in these things is pretty wild too.
Some of you may remember mad cow disease?
It was a neurodegenerative disease caught by swathes cattle because they were, to put
it really simply, eating terrible food often made from other cows brains.
Not cool.
These days responsible farmers feed their cattle and other live stock are fed things
like almonds and other natural produceÖ.whichÖ.uh ohÖ.waitÖhow are we going to feed the cows
now the bees have died and left us more than semi-nutless.
Problems.
And if we canít feed the cows and chickens, what will happen to cheese, milk, eggs, butter
and meat, for those of you that still eat it.
More of our food supplies goneÖwhich is a problem when the worldís population keeps
on swelling.
Without the beeís aiding pollinationÖthere is no nice way to put itÖ.we will starve.
Yes, we can still eat wind pollinated goods like corn and rice, but at the moment there
is not enough to go around as a main food source for allÖ.
StarvingÖand maybe a little bit nakedÖseeing as cotton plants would be pretty barren sans
bees.
WaitÖstarvingÖa little bit nude and poorÖ.doesnít sound funÖ.but it is true Ö in the Unites
States, Bees are reported to bring in over 15 billion dollars in crop value alone.
SoÖwho is thinking that this sounds like absolutely no fun.
I am raising my handÖyou just canít actually see meÖ.
WellÖyou may be concerned to hear that honey bees are on the declineÖthe sharp decline.
Pesticides are confusing bees, leading to colony collapse disorder, the abandonment
of hives, which causes their colony to die off.
Itís not just pesticides leading to the decline in bees, either, climate change is having
a huge effect on them.
Reportedly the honeybee population of the United States is half of what it was during
the 1950s.
So, we know now what could happen if all the bees diedÖ.However, it doesnít need to end
this way.
During his Presidency, Obama established the Pollinator Health Task Force to help protect
bees environments, knowing they are crucial for the food chain.
You can even help by growing pesticide free flowers and keeping water in your garden in
the summerÖhurrah for bees!
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below.
Any bee keepers out there?
I would love to hear your thoughts as you are the bee professionals!
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