Save our Unsung Heroes; the Bees

Rosemary & Bees =================××==========

Butterlies, moths, birds, bats and bees, especially honey bees are the most important creatures to human beings but given very little, if at all, credits. Without them, we humans are gonna be screwed big time.

Have we ever thought that, while chomping on our favourite vegetable or fruit or any kind of food, it’s all because of them? We won’t get to eat cucumbers, avocado sandwich, garden salad, cherries, almonds, barguette (or bread if barguette sounds too snobbish), meat, rice or any food at all without them. And yet very few of us appreciate the guys who make it possible for us to continue enjoying our favourite delicacies.

They work, for free, on pollinating avocado flowers so that we can enjoy our $20 avocado salad at our trendy local cafe. They pollinate clover & alfalfa that are fed to cattle to enable us to continue enjoying our juicy, melt-in-the-mouth, $50 tendeloin steak. Every single oat grain, sultana, sunflower & pumpkin seed, almond, strawberry, dried apricot, low fat milk & honey (yes honey) in a bowl of our healthy muesli breakfast are made possible because of our unsung, unpaid, unappreciated saviours.

So guys, please everytime we enjoy our food, let’s send a thank-you note to our friends who are tirelessly pollinating fowers at the very moment. Even though they’ve been our saviours for millenials, we are also their number one enemies. We poison them. We steal their habitat. We pollute the earth. We destroy the ecosystem. We heat the planet. All these activities are killing them. By killing them we are killing ourselves. Let’s save bees & the gang to save ourselves.

p/s: Photos courtesy of Colin Roberts