Bees are dying! by Milota Sidorova

For four years have been honeymakers attacked by several disasters and sickness, reducing their beehives like a melting snow. One can agree that the reason is natural imbalance. Bees are vulnerable to too early or too late spring periods, flower blooming and change of natural cycles.One should get the wider perspective – everything in nature is perfectly timed up. When spring comes, it is a chain of cycles and biorhythms following on. First the temperature climbs up, ground is getting warmer, many of sleeping animals including insects are coming back to life. That time, flowers have been already blooming offering nectar in change for the most important – fertili! zation of plants and assuring the next generation – in many cases we can use the word crop. Insects is also the food for the new generation of birds. If there is anything too early, the second layer is being reduced. If there is too early blooming, the insect may not be fast enough to get up, if there is a freezing period – both flowers and insect are reduced and the crop has been already influenced. No flowers, no fruits. Here we come to birds and rest of mammals. They come up bit later, eating insect, but if it has gone, what could be the food? We could carry on and on and predict a catastrophe.But right now we are witness of one malfunction of the nature. Bees that come up too early and are affected by frost, by pesticides in the flowers and illness that follows the circle.Recent years, there has been horrifying drop in bee families. There has been massive plaque reducing these so important animals that Britain, Italy and Czech Republic, countries with long h! oney-making tradition alarmed they were off their supplies bef! ore Chri stmas. That has never happened before. Ever. The sickness killing the bees attacked their nerve system and confused the sense for orientation – many of bees simply got lost and couldn't find the way back home. They died along the way. Summing all these facts one realize that bees, the specie responsible for huge plant fertilization is in serious danger. If we loose this part of the chain, the consequences will remain of avalanche. The circle will loose one important engine.And it won't be just about honey anymore. Personally I have too much respect to predict such cruelty.

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