Honeybees Can Prevent Warming

Honeybees can prevent global warming. But right now, honey bees are disappearing left and right to the point where not even a dead body can be found. This phenomenon is called colony collapse, where the adult worker bees in a colony suddenly disappear, and leave behind the queen. This effect not only hurts the environment but is also detrimental to economic commodity, consequently leading to increased price of vegetables and fruits.

This tiny factor completely reshapes urban living in the future. Habitat loss combined with escalation of the rising human population creates a situation where there is little space to fit all of them. This means that people need to change the way they see cities, for example, when you look at a picture of New York City:

it is gray and brown and dreary and there is tar paper on the rooftops that bounces back heat into the atmosphere and thus contributes to warming and climate change. But is urban living develops a more sustainable environment by implementing green rooftops, gardening, and other eco-friendly ideas, people would be able to grow and eat their own crops right in the cities.

This saves costs on transportation, contributes to a healthier diet, leads to new job creation and increased opportunities of education locally. Bees are needed for the future of our cities and urban living.

Studies show that bees actually thrive better in cites than they do in the countryside. This is because of overwintering and disease, like the varroa mite, which can be countered for in city rooftops or near the indoors. There is also more pollen in the cities, and less pesticides in the vegetables. Additionally honeybees actually produce more honey in the city than in the countryside.

But in order for this implementation to happen, the human perception of them must change first. Bees don’t care about you unless you are a flower, and they dont sting you if you dont provoke them, this makes beekeeping so much easier than people perceive it to be. There is no harm in having bees in your backyard or front porch. If anything, they are a sign that the environment is doing well, a sign that is starting to disappear these days.

Information taken from Noah Wilson-Rich (Biologist with a PhD in honeybee health)