Ancestors Speak – We depend on Bees

This picture of a beehive from http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/icm/files/images/honey-bee-hive_0.jpg

 

Around the world, honeybees pollinate apples, cucumbers, alfalfa, blueberries, almonds, squash, watermelons, cantaloupes and a huge variety of other fruits and vegetables — an important contribution to an industry worth tens of billions of dollars.

In Canada, Alberta is particularly reliant on the insects for production of hybrid canola, while provinces like British Columbia and Ontario rely on them for berry pollination.

Last year about 26 per cent of the more than 600,000 colonies across the country were lost over the winter, according to a June 2008 report from the Canadian Honey Council, an industry group representing both commercial and hobby beekeepers. Normal losses during wintering are usually around 15 per cent.  From the CBC News article http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/22/honey-bee-collapse.html

I was reading the article on honey bees, and I wondered how many people really knew that in the winter of 2007 to 2008, Canada lost 26% of its honey bees.  Honey Bees are the volunteers of the animal world.  They not only make honey which is good to eat, they mix in their saliva and some pollen to produce a sticky substance that is one of the best healing ointments.  When anthropologists opened tombs in Egypt, they found sealed jars of honey, still unspoiled (no mold).  Make note that the unpasteurized honey is the best healer.  Honey Bee is also, as the article mentioned, a pollinator extraordinaire!  Alfalfa and clover fields blossom because of the bees, and that means feed for cattle, horses, and other bovines, which means milk and meat and leather for humans.  Our Ancestors tried to settle close to a honey bee hive because the hive activity indicated that the land was healthy and that the growing cycle was good.

If you find that you want to send good wishes to someone today, send out some positive thoughts to our Honey Bees!  They are disappearing. Shaman say that when honey bees disappear, that mankind can only last a decade or so, and then man will disappear.

Judy@angelsandancestors.com   Sign up for our free May newsletter at http://www.angelsandancestors.com/signup.html