One of the most alarming things I can think of presently is the fact that honey bees are disappearing quite rapidly. This is just terrible! Bees pollinate many crops for farmers as well as produce nutritious and delicious honey! Honey bees are indispensable for many many things. Did you know that if honey is stored properly, it will last pretty much forever? For example, archaeologists that dug up an ancient city from about 2000 B.C. found containers of honey...and guess what! The honey was still good! Also, honey kills bacteria...I always eat some when I get a sore throat- I think it really does help! (That’s probably why it can last forever- it kills everything that would break it down) Though the cause of the disappearance in honey bees is still unknown, many believe that the increasing use of herbicides and pesticides (which honeybees ingest daily during their pollination rounds) are the culprit. The US Agriculture Department has also found that parasites have been causing general weakness among bee colonies. Whatever it is I sure hope they get it straightened out, because I cannot begin to imagine my life without honey! AHHH!
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