A bee, just a little critter, with a brain as small as a pin head, is an amazing creature. It can recognize faces or other bees and can tell the hive where to find the honey by dancing in a pattern.
Humans have taken honey for a long time and bees are the main species pollinating our crops. Now they are vanishing at a rapid rate and on an enormous scale.
Should we care?
If you would want to hear more about how essential bees are for our well-being, feel free to hear Bee Mama Maude Stephany speak on March 16, starting at 10am at the Elora and Fergus UU congregation, at the Victoria Park Centre, 150 Albert Street W., Fergus. Refreshments will be served.
“In 2013, we heard more about bee death than we ever had before. That’s because bee deaths were happening on a massive scale,” said Bee Mama Maude Stephany.
“More than 37 million honeybees died in Elmwood, Ontario last year. About 50,000 bumblebees died in Oregon, and another 50,000 bees died in Minnesota.”
Maude Stephany has been caring for mason bees for more than seven years.
During that time, she has been witness to their life cycles, and has come to understand how her life choices impact on the bees, and other creatures.
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