Are bees committing suicide?
It is no secret that certain species of bees are in danger of becoming extinct. The honey bee is one of these varieties. They are very important to our ecological balance and apparently scientists are studying the reasons why this is happening.
They have theories that suggest its due to climatic changes, global warming, bee viruses, contamination, bee poachers, bee fight nights and who knows what else. I was talking about bees with my daughter yesterday and since she works with a beekeeper I asked her if she knew what his theory was. She reiterated that her beekeepers bees are not dying because they get to take the winter off. She further elaborated by stating that the bee keepers in some countries (namely those ones where they are having bee extinction problems) feed their honey bees corn syrup and work them 12 months a year without a break. She said that feeding a bee corn syrup is like giving a 2 year old a red bull. The bees are super hyper-active and the stress of working 12 months a year on red-bull is driving them to leave the hive and go off and die from pure exhaustion.
Sounds like bee suicide to me. I find it interesting that in all the articles about bees I have seen not one of them mentions that the bees might just be fed up and tired of working in bee sweatshops.
Heres a good website that gives a pretty comprehensible over view of bees, but more importantly has some great links at the bottom to more bee information.
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