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The Bees are Disappearing and so might our Produce!

September 24, 2013

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English: Female Honey Bee Morphology for the a...

English: Female Honey Bee Morphology for the article on Bees. It can be identified as a female by both the number of divisions on its antenna and by its sting. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

About 1/3 of the honeybee colony has been disappearing each year for the last 7 years. They are not finding dead honeybee bodies so no one knows where they are going. This will obviously affect our honey products but it may illuminate about 1/3 of all produce in the supermarket. Fruit and nuts are pollinated by honeybees. Can you imagine life without fruits and nuts? This would have a devastating effect on human life as we know it.

What’s all the buzz about? Inside the mysterious mass disappearance of honeybees (aworldchaos.wordpress.com)
Inside the mysterious mass disappearance of honeybees (nodisinfo.com)
Drop in honeybees population worries U.S. farmers (mysafetysign.com)
The real reason to worry about bees (scienceblog.com)
What’s Up With the Bees? Part 1 The Amazing Dissappearing Honeybee (honeythymeherbfarm.com)

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