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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Bumble bees.

     Bumble bees, an insect that causes severe pain once stung. I've been stung five times by a bee, and for those of you who haven't been stung, let me tell you guys that it hurts like hell. The first instinct I get when I see a bee, is to run away and try my best try not to cross paths again. There are cases in which I just want to kill them right then and there because I'm scared that there's a possibility that I can be stung again.
     However, I came to the realization that bees are more important that I've ever thought. They are amongst the smallest things in the our world, yet the most influential in the agricultural world. Bees contribute their source of power which is getting into flowers to collect pollen.
     Bees are responsible for more than half of the fruits and vegetables we eat. They allow flowers to bloom and grass to grow. Furthermore, according to Marla Spivak, more bees continue to disappear each year.
     My question is, Would life be sustainable if bees were to extinct?
    I think life would be sustainable, for while at least. The human population would depend too much on animals and other sources of food in order to obviously survive. But the thing is, fruits and vegetables are the main food groups in which we get our nutrition from and are considered the healthiest.
     Overall, I hope bees stop disappearing because they are desperately needed on Earth.

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