ericbombWhere is love for non honey bees?
What commercial purpose do non-honey bees serve??? Why should we save them???
Viewing things from a solely commercial perspective is myopic and like most capitalistic business oractices, thinks waaay too short term. You can’t make your money off your crops decades from now that f youre only thinking about this quarters profits.
But even if you were to take this myopic and short sighted approach, Honey Bees are just average pollinators amongst a diverse range of insects and some small birds.
Additionally planting a wide variety of drought resistant flora is better for both wild as well domesticated pollinators and a more environmentally friendly practice than just keeping honey bees.
I offer two points for consideration:
Bees help plants maintain genetic diversity among certain plants that other pollinators may not target. Genetic diversity helps maintain a thriving variety of plant, tolerant to different environments. Especially important is our environments are changing.
Animals that are bred until they cannot survive outside of certain environments, (co-dependence) are destined to become extinct in the absence of said environment. (In case there’s any confusion, insects fall under the umbrella of “animals” taxonomically. Also, in this sentence, the codependent animals may be humans.)
Diverse populations of bees provide benefits and necessities outside of commercial purposes, and are going the way of the American Bison. (Please note the differences from the way of the dinosaur.)
Panel 1: 😏 Panel 2: /s right?
Panel 3: 😏 Panel 4: …right?
Obviously, didn’t think I’d need the /s here of all places. 😓
Bumble bees run a popular online dating platform
pH3raEdit: yeesh, didn’t think that needed an /s
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