(7/8/25, Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltd)
If you are looking around on a page like this, you most likely know that bees had a really rough year last year. In an industry where 30% herd loss is common, some sites reported 70% and 80% losses over the winter. Can you imagine that level of loss in any other industry? Can you imagine striking up a conversation with a Dairy Farmer and having him say that he ONLY lost a quarter of his herd over the winter? Or a rough year for a sheep rancher being one where he ONLY lost half?
This article, and those like it, are why we are focused on helping bees. They are the source for so much, the initiating element for the entire food web that follows. I don’t know about you, but I sort of enjoy silly things like eating food. Over 30% of the present human diet consists of plants directly pollinated by bees. The other 70% is desperately tied to the little flying friends indirectly → Cows used to make your hamburgers might not care about bees, but the tons of hay they eat sure do. When 70% of the critters responsible for much of what we need start dying off, I for one get very interested.