03/19/2022
Well we have survived the first week of daylight savings time, and Monday, 3.21.22 is the first day of Spring! During the spring bees begin the restocking food, form new colonies, and established colonies re-emerge. We are fortunate to have the purveyors of the World’s Greatest Honey, ,Tarpon Springs Florida, right in our own backyard! At , they keep their bees the happiest in the most comfortable of settings. However, our bees are dying off in alarming numbers and we need to be sure we are doing all we can to keep our bees alive and happy, just like ! Check out their website and see for yourself, https://bayshorebees.com/.
According to Environment America, “bees are dying off at an unsustainable rate, with serious consequences for our natural world. They play a vital role as pollinators and losing them would have a devastating ripple effect across all ecosystems.
In recent years, beekeepers report they’re losing on average 29 percent — and sometimes nearly 40 percent — of all honeybee colonies each winter. It’s twice the loss considered economically tolerable. And just as worrisome, wild bee populations are also in decline.
There are more than 20,000 species of bees, and they are nature’s best pollinators. Ninety percent of wild flowering plants need animal pollinators. Without them, flowering plants will sharply decline, with dangerous consequences for all ecosystems.
The three things we can do right now to save the bees are to plant more pollinator-friendly plants; stop the use of bee-killing pesticides in parks, wildlife refuges and other places bees should be safe; and promote sustainable, less pesticide-reliant agricultural practices.” https://environmentamerica.org/feature/ame/save-bees #