Have you been paying attention to this honeybee thing? They are dying off in large numbers. At first I thought, “Yay! Not as many bees in my yard this year!” Then, I started reading more about the situation and realized how much the honeybees affect our food supply and I got scared. The line from the article that says, “reducing us to a glorified bread-and-water diet” scared the hell out of me.

Here are a list of some of the foods the honeybees pollinate, thereby ensuring the crops are plentiful:

Apples, nuts, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, broccoli, celery, squash and cucumbers, citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe and other melons.

That’s a big part of my diet right there! Not good at all. I sure hope they find out what is causing the bees to die off so something can be done about it. Scary.

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