Bees
A little while ago the local beekeepers came to town and asked the government for some money to help protect the bees. In case you somehow missed this rather gloomy bit of news in a world brimming with otherwise great news, here is my take on the situation.
There is a little bug ( a mighty mite) who infests the home of bees, a beehive, and causes all the bees to fall about and croak, but they don’t turn into frogs since we don’t have any where near enough rain for frogs anyway. This rather savage little mite has apparently wiped out huge numbers of bees elsewhere which has two rather sad consequences. The first and obvious one is that honey gets a little hard to find and thus much more expensive to buy. However its the second consequence which is far more serious, and that’s the threat that a demise in bees poses to the pollination of plants. If you skipped birds and bees at skool then let’s just say that bees are pretty important in the way plants produce seeds and reproduce. Lots of plants! Think Bee Story in real life…
Ok, this isn’t new news but as I was lolling around, enjoying the sunshine today at a friend’s house I was reminded once again how busy the humble bee is, how much they are part of a ecosystem that is self sustaining and one that provides us with many of life’s essentials. If the gloom of impending catastrophic climate change wasn’t enough, then start factoring in some of the other potentially devastating biological disasters threatening our relatively benign world. And the best our mass media can talk about is this crud.