🐝Protect The Bumblebees🐝
🐝 Bumblebees, the little fluffy insects you see flying around your garden in the spring. When you hear "bee", you may scream and run out of the room yelling "Kill It, Kill It" or, you might be the one who stomps on the bee, squishing it into mush. Next time you see a bee just open a window and shoo it out, and let me tell you why...
🐝 Did you know bumblebees are endangered? Well they are. You may be thinking "they're just bugs, why does it matter if all the bees die?" Actually it matters a lot! Bees pollinate flowers, which is how plants reproduce and grow food. Bumblebees going instinct would mean a mammoth drop in crops. According to Bees-NRDC, "Pollination helps at least 30 percent of the world's crops and 90 percent of our wild plants to thrive." Although, we can self-pollinate (to pollinate flowers ourselves), it would take hours to do an acre with at leased 10 workers. Now imagine that on a world-wide scale. Albert Einstein predicted: “Mankind will not survive the honeybees’ disappearance for more than five years.”
🐝 OK, but how do we help? You can help buy planting bee-friendly plants, and you can avoid using harmful chemicals like weed killers in your garden. weeds can be good. I know, I know! Weeds are pests that invade your garden, but honey bees and every other type of bee loves weeds!, especially dandelions and clover. If you have a lot of bees around your home, you can also leave a small tin of water outside for them to drink from.
Save The Bees!
References
- https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/bees.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-pollination
- https://www.quora.com/How-long-would-humans-survive-without-bees
- http://www.queenofthesun.com/get-involved/10-things-you-can-do-to-help-bees/
- http://www.globalresearch.ca/death-and-extinction-of-the-bees/5375684#insertlearning
No bees, no people
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