Why Are Bees Dying?

The bees are dying. And we desperately need our bees.  Without bees, we have no food. Period.  It is everyone's job to help save the bees!

Why are the bees dying? It depends on who you ask.  Parasitic mites, weather, transporting bees from crop to crop weakens their immune system, blah, blah, blah. But the single most agreed upon reason for the death of our important bees are pesticides.

Synthetic neuro-toxic pesticides created by scientists are the traditional pesticides in use today. They do not exist in Nature but are chemical monsters used to wipe out pest populations.  However, they wipe out other creatures too.

Remember DDT? It is the poster child for science gone wrong.  It was a brand new pesticide touted as the ultimate solution to pests. Minimal testing, giddy scientists and a gullible public used tons of DDT under much celebration. In fact, DDT won a Nobel Prize in Medicine because it was so fabulous! Well, fast forward a few years and Environmental Armageddon was going on.  Species were pushed to extinction, waterways were polluted, and traces of disease-causing DDT were found throughout the human population. In an incredible about-face, DDT was yanked from the shelves. It was banned with much hoopla and mankind collectively learned a valuable lesson. Right?

Well, no. Mankind learned how to be sneaky. Large chemical companies figured out how to build loyalty by running slick ad campaigns showing happy, healthy families running across green lawns that could only be achieved using their 'new and improved, safe' chemicals. Never mind that they are just as toxic, have no long-term studies, and are proven disease-causing agents for ADHD, Autism, Alzheimer's, etc.

If you have a crop with pests and spray toxic, synthetic pesticides, you will also kill the bees within range of that crop and every single bee that subsequently feeds on the pollen of that crop. One application can affect bees for months and then those bees go back to their hives and infect all the other bees.

What is the solution? Demand that the use of synthetic, systemic pesticides be stopped! Instead, use  Greenbug  which is all natural pest control products that are perfectly safe to use around bees yet control the pests we don't want!  

Your food source depends on it!