🍯🚫 🐝 Save The Bees! 🐝🚫🍯

By: Natalia Rosales

TheTimes

Did you know the average honey bee makes less than a teaspoon of honey in its entire life? Well if you did you would stop and think about how your existence affects the way other animals live. For more information click ‘Read more’.

Bees are a very important and helpful animal to the ecosystem, but us humans are not appreciating them as much as we need to. “Bees help us but they do scare me because I don't want them to sting me but I also don't want them extinct” said Mary Corrales, student at Northwest Middle School. Bees are slowly going extinct because of a chemical we’ve all probably used before. That chemical is weed killer.

Weed killer is the leading cause of why honey bees are dying. As we all know bees pollinate flowers, and flowers grow in gardens but those pesky weeds do too! So once you spray the weed killer onto your garden it also gets on the flowers. Bees pollinate by licking the flowers but it's also the same flower you sprayed with weed killer! The chemicals on those sprays cause bees to weaken and be unable to fly, so the little bee falls and dies of dehydration.

Now some people don't care but those same people love honey and buying flowers. Our ecosystem relies on bees to help flowers but without bees flowers won't grow as easy. “I feel like there wouldn't be as much flowers.” Mary said. We need to think about our ecosystem more at times, because everything doesn't last forever, so we must appreciate our resources.  

Another way bees are dying is by humans taking their own food supply. Honey is a very delicious and popular syrup like food. But have you ever sat down and thought about how many bees it took to make that big jar of honey sitting on your table? It is most likely you haven't, and just so you know it takes 2 million flowers pollinated by bees to make one pound of honey. Bees do not spend all that time and effort for their food to be taken away by some greedy human.

Have some sympathy for bees, because if us humans keep this up there are not going to be any bees, honey, and potentially a lot less flowers. You can help by stopping the use of weed killer and other toxic chemicals, or by just planting a flower! What will you do to save the bees?