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All over the world bees are dying, and dying by the millions.? While some lament their friendly buzzing over the lavender in the garden, others are desperate to see their crops pollinated.? Some of us are just wishing for those days when bees were everywhere, and welcome.? Sadly, it seems, those days are gone and it appears that honeybees may well be facing extinction, and that doesn?t bode well for humanity.
Pic courtesy MSN.com.
Barely two weeks after 25,000 bees were found dead in a parking lot in Oregon, another round of bee devastation has been reported. This time, the mass die-off was far worse. More than 37 million honeybees were found dead in Elmwood, Ontario, according to beekeeper Dave Schuit, who lost the bees from 600 hives in June. He and many others are pointing to insecticides called neonicotinoids, used in planting corn and some other crops. ?Once the corn started to get planted [in Elmwood] our bees died by the millions,? Schuit said. After a record-breaking loss of honeybees in the U.K., the European Union banned several pesticides in May, including neonicotinoid pesticides.
?If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.? Albert Einstein
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