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All of us on the Ace Wildlife Control Team are very sad to see the latest news on these very important, amazing assets to our planet. Between the toxic pesticides being used to fight the mosquitos that carry the Zika Virus and other man-made threats to their existence, honeybees are in trouble.
Bees are some of the hardest working creatures on the planet, and because of their laborious work ethic, we owe many thanks to this amazing yet often under appreciated insect.
Our lives – and the world as a whole – would be a much different place if bees didn’t exist. To illustrate this fact, consider these numbers: bees are responsible for pollinating about one-sixth of the flowering plant species worldwide and approximately 400 different agricultural types of plant.
Honeybees and the other pollinators and the invaluable pollinating services they provide us with helped produce approximately $19 billion worth of agricultural crops in the U.S. alone in 2010; that’s estimated to be one-third of everything we eat! The other animal pollinators such as bats, moths, butterflies, hummingbirds, ants, and beetles contributed to an estimated $10 billion in 2010! To say we rely on the pollination efforts of bees (and other animals) to sustain our modern food system is an understatement.
The good news? You don’t have to be a beekeeper to help these incredible insects.
5 ways to help save the bees:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/04/living/iyw-5-ways-to-help-bees/
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Bee Species Added to Endangered List for First Time in Tennessee and Kentucky
Serving Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky
