I heard today that the Honey Bee population has reduced by 30% this year, and experts believe they could disappear in the next 10 years. Consequently, English Honey may be hard to come by after Christmas! The reason for this decline is currently unknown except that a number of disease factors are in operation and other invertebrates living in apiaries are compromising the bees.
However, the Honey Bee is just 1 specie of bee, there are 260 other species of bee and 24 species of the Bumble Bee...... well I never....
Honey aside, and perhaps more importantly bees and other insects are of course essential for pollination, without this we would have no fruit/veg/cereal..... COFFEE!!!........starvation.........
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Just another reason for keeping a close eye on the whole picture really. We live in difficult times.
Thank you Julie.
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