Over 4000 Reasons to Love North America’s Native Bees

This iconic pollinator (along with other closely related species within its genus) has been a faithful companion of humanity for a very, online very long time. It is an association that has spanned the ages back to the earliest days of mankind. Sadly, buy our six-legged traveling companion has been appearing frequently in the news lately not for the good things it brings, online but rather due to the unfortunate spread of a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Once stricken by this malady, an overwintering hive of bees will inexplicably abandon their queen, resulting in her, and her youngs’, demise. Over the past eight years this epidemic has laid waste to somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 million beehives.

Link: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2014/01/06/over-4000-reasons-to-love-and-protect-north-americas-native-bees/